Paris Fashion Week, Because The Rachel Zoe Project airs on Bravo and because every series on Bravo has the requisite “everyone goes to Paris” episode (looking at you, Housewives), the latest episode finds Rachel and Rodger in Paris. Rachel has to go to Paris Fashion Week, wear blue pantsuits, and be fabulous generally, but she also manages to find time to ride a carousel with “Sky Sky” and scold Rodger for eating quiche.
If one thing was clear from the episode, it’s this: If you’re going to travel to PFW, this is the way to do it. Some rules for navigating the French fashion mayhem from our guardian angel, Rachel:
Obviously Rachel can’t go to Paris Fashion Week without bringing the entire contents of her closet, Skyler’s closet, and maybe the one drawer Rodger gets for his stuff.
Once Rachel has amassed enough clothes to dress all of post-hurricane New Jersey, Rodger starts throwing one of the many tantrums he must be contractually obligated to throw each episode. “Rachel, it looks like a freaking estate sale. It’s…seven suitcases, for a week?” he cries, beads of sweat forming between his bracelets and wrists. “And those little carry-ons? How many pocketbooks you bringing?” Plus 5 for “estate sale,” but also, minus 5 for “pocketbooks.” Rodger’s fashion vocabulary is more up-to-date than that.
This is Rachel’s new catchphrase. (I think it’s new. Correct me if I’m wrong.) And in Rachel Land, I gather, it means the same thing to Rachel that “namaste” means to yoga instructors, i.e., “Thanks for doing the stuff I just told you to do, bye now.” For example, R&R’s packing argument:
