Bananas.

Get ready for some shamless fawning over the smallest person alive.

I am completely in love with Rachel Zoe, celebrity stylist. The construction of that sentence would probably be better suited to "Rachel Zoe, private eye," but we'll leave that for when she decides to pursue a career change. If you don't know of Ms. Zoe, here's the skinny (literally): She weighs about as much as my right leg, has got bigger hair than any lion's mane, wears more gold jewelry and fur than a pimp, and when she likes something, she either "DIES," thinks it's "bananas," or knows that one of her clients will "shut it down" when wearing it. Oh, and she styles most of the celebrities that people pay attention to--Anne Hathaway, Eva Mendes, Jennifer Garner, etc.

Those precious sound bytes don't come from a personal friendship with Zoe--UNFORTNATELY--but from her reality show on Bravo, The Rachel Zoe Project. The second season started on Monday, and I won't lie: I've been anticipating it since June. She may be the personification of everything that's screwed up in the fashion world (namely, her lack of concern about eating), but I have to admire anyone who is so passionate about something that people often scoff at. Instead of simply focusing on the dress, the woman doesn't rest until she's found the vintage Van Cleef and Arpels cuff that complements it perfectly. She also possesses an interesting trait that celebrity stylists can often lack: marketing savvy. Zoe has a reverence for fashion, but she also knows that a misunderstood couture dress could land a client on any number of worst-dressed lists.

Case in point: on Monday's premiere episode, she was DYING over a fuschia Chanel haute couture dress that she wanted to get Cameron Diaz to wear at the Golden Globes. However, she felt that the assymmetrical sleeve on the dress made the overall shape too avant-garde for the American public to appreciate. Rather than simply move on and find another dress, she contacted the Chanel house and asked the head--Karl Lagerfield--if he would be willing to CUT THE SLEEVE OFF. Stylists are not fashion designers, and they are certainly not haute couture seamstresses. Haute couture is highly respected and marked by its intricate craftsmanship and the days/weeks that go into making one piece. Oh, and when something is haute couture, that means there's only one. In the entire world.

And Rachel Zoe--who admitted that she cannot sketch, much less sew--asked Karl Lagerfield to lop off a sleeve as if it was nothing.

I'll keep you in stylish suspense as to whether or not Karl did the deed, but the sheer fact that she asked one of the most respected designers in the world to change a dress of his should give you an indication of just how committed to a particular vision she can be.

That kind of commitment to one's craft--even if she's not designing anything herself--will always be in style. Welcome back to the television, Rachel. I know I've missed you.