Elle Magazine Creative Director Joe Zee

Shauntee Thompson Founder of So Seductive Cosmetics with Creative Director of Elle Magazines Joe Zee during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York SS/2011. Since February 2007 when he was appointed to creative director at Elle, he has since brought his exceptional creativity, style and editorial expertise to the magazine. The move to Elle followed Joe’s many successful years as fashion director at W, and contributing fashion editor at Details and House & Garden. He was also editor-in-chief of both the men’s and women’s editions of Vitals.

Joe is the talent behind the TV and print advertising campaigns for a variety of prominent clients such as Lancôme, Banana Republic, Elie Tahari, Celine, Oscar de la Renta, DKNY, Perry Ellis, Kenneth Cole, Escada, Anne Klein, H&M, Jones New York, Estée Lauder, M.A.C. Cosmetics, Chanel, Coty and Tiffany & Co. He has also styled the most memorable celebrity advertising campaigns for the Gap including the “(PRODUCT) RED” campaign featuring Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Garner, Chris Rock, Don Cheadle and Dakota Fanning; The unforgettable pairing of Madonna and Missy Elliot in cord jeans, the 35th anniversary campaign with Sarah Jessica Parker, and the “Favorite Fit” jeans campaign with Alanis Morissette, Liz Phair, Keith Urban, John Legend, Joss Stone, Brandon Boyd of Incubus and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child.

Styling TV commercials has allowed Joe the opportunity to collaborate with well known directors such as Mario Testino (Lancôme), Jake Nava (Heat by Beyonce), Jean-Paul Goude (Covet by Sarah Jessica Parker), Michael Thompson (Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker, a winner of the 2006 FiFi Award for Best National Advertising Campaign-Television), Paul Hunter (Gap) and Francis Lawrence (Gap).

Joe is regularly sought after by celebrity clients resulting in an impressive list of actresses, actors and musicians among them Justin Timberlake, Sarah Jessica Parker, Fergie, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rhianna, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Reese Witherspoon, Megan Fox, Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johansson, Kiera Knightley, Cameron Diaz, Uma Thurman, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Cruise and Jude Law.

Mr.Zee is the one Elle is thrusting in front of the cameras for its next television show on the Sundance Channel, called All on the Line, in which the creative director will consult young designers "in crisis" to ready them for "make-or-break" meetings with buyers. Zee is in the process of casting the eight designers, who will each appear in one episode.