Joe Zee (born November 23, 1968) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian fashion stylist, journalist, and producer, known for ''

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'' (1981), ''

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'' (2015) and ''Celebrity Style Story'' (2012). Zee served as

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of ''

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'' for seven years. He became

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and executive creative officer of '' Yahoo! Style'' in April 2014. He resigned from Yahoo in June 2017.

Early life

Zee was born in

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and at the age of one, moved to

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where he grew up. He began working in fashion in 1990, at age 22, and ultimately moved to

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enrolling at the

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Career

In the mid-1990s, Zee met stylist

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at an '' Allure'' party, and soon became her assistant. He was described in a ''

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'' profile as a leader in the mass market and digital transformation of fashion: "a chatty and approachable ambassador of fashion who has aggressively thrust himself in front of ''

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'' using Twitter, blogs, v-logs and—most visibly—television." Zee hosts ''All on the Line'', a fashion series on the

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. In each episode, Zee acts as a business consultant to a designer who is struggling. Zee was a recurring character as boss of the reality series '' The City''. He has also appeared on episodes of ''

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,'' ''

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, and

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'' as himself. He was one of the co-hosts of the ABC daytime talk show ''The Fab Life''. Zee has worked with notable photographers including

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and

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. In 2010, he made an appearance on

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as himself. In 2015, he released his book ''That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style.'' In 2016, he was one of the guest judges in the final of

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, United States.In 2015, he released his book ''That's What Fashion Is: Lessons and Stories from My Nonstop, Mostly Glamorous Life in Style.''

Personal life

Zee is married to Rob Younkers, host of

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's ''Secret Guide to Fabulous''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zee, Joe 1968 births Living people Businesspeople from Toronto Canadian chief executives Canadian expatriates in the United States Hong Kong emigrants to Canada Fashion Institute of Technology alumni Canadian fashion journalists Yahoo! employees LGBT journalists from Canada Canadian gay writers Writers from Toronto Canadian writers of Asian descent

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