Starlets are Firing Stylists

Rachel Zoe may be joining the ranks of jobless Americans pretty soon.

The Observer observes (tee hee) a recent trend in Hollywood of stars ditching those money-grubbing stylists and going directly to the designers instead.

Reportedly stars including Chloë Sevigny, Alexa Chung, Kristen Dunst, Natalie Portman, and Sarah Jessica Parker all avoid stylists and choose their own clothes instead.

Still, all those ladies are known for their sense of style. What about the less fashionably adept out there?

Gossip Girl's Blake Lively is another stylist-free starlet:

“She’s the one that looked like a mess in that Nina Ricci dress at the Golden Globes!” snarked celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch to the Observer. “This is why you need a stylist. If you go to a designer, their goal is to get you out the door and on the red carpet in their gown come hell or high water. They’re never going to say, ‘This just might not be right for you.’”

“It used to be that none of the designers even knew the celebrities. The only real designers that had a presence in Hollywood were Versace and Armani,” continued Mr. Bloch, who began working in the early ’90s. “We became the liaisons. Then as time progressed and everyone got greedier, they want to cut out the middle person.”

Clearly he is not one bit biased. It's not necessarily greed- stylists are an unnecessary luxury. Times like these call for some budget cuts. Sorry, stylists. But you can stick around as long as you don't turn all of your clients into tanorexic boho clones, a la the Rachel Zoe tyranny of 2005.