Rachel Zoe Box of Style Fall 2015 Subscription Box Review
The Rachel Zoe Box of Style from The Zoe Report is a new subscription box from Rachel Zoe. I am a huge fan and love her taste, so I think this may be my favorite subscription box launch of the year so far!
My Subscription Addiction paid for this box. (Check out the review process post to learn more about how we review boxes).
The packaging on this box is fabulous – it definitely feels like you are unwrapping a luxe gift!
(Each item is individually wrapped in black tissue paper).
The Subscription Box: Box of Style by The Zoe Report
The Cost: $100
COUPON: Use code MSA25 to save $25 off your first box!
The Products: “Every season Rachel and our TZR editors will hand-curate more than $300 of our favorite fashion, beauty and lifestyle items.”
Ships to: US
Check out all of my Box of Style reviews!
The box comes with an info booklet with Rachel’s styling tips, and a letter from her introducing the box.
Each brand also included a coupon code for Box of Style subscribers.
CLUSE La Bohème rose gold watch with interchangeable grey and black straps – Value $132 Value
I even love the storage pouch this watch comes with! Here is the actual watch:
Love the menswear inspired style and size. Here is is on:
And a closer look at the strap:
I think the grey band is my favorite – but I’ll definitely use both.
One Love Organics Gardenia + Tea Antioxidant Body Serum – Value $39
I fell in love with this product thanks to the April POPSUGAR Must Have box. The scent is subtle and reminds me of summer, and the formula is pretty lightweight and absorbs quickly leaving a bit of a sheen. I’m so happy to have more of this body serum! (And the coupon included for One Love Organics is pretty great too – $25 off an order of $75 or more!)
Sloane Stationery Custom Set of Notebooks for Box of Style subscribers ($40 Value)
I like Rachel’s suggestion to use the “Shut it Down” notebook for to-do lists! These are both Rachel-isms, and as Tamara mentioned in an earlier post, the Shut it Down also works for 30 Rock fans!
A look inside at the lined pages:
Topshop Fedora – Value $48
I love the olive color of this felt hat, but sadly for me it’s a little too snug for my head and doesn’t sit right. I think I’ll be gifting or swapping it.
The Laundress Fabric Fresh Classic Spray – Value $8
I love that Rachel includes practical styling tools in each box. (I used the nippies from the Summer box to protect my heels in new shoes for a wedding this summer and they were a life saver!)
This spray has a powdery fresh scent and is designed to both freshen up fabrics and remove odors. (A high-fashion Febreeze!) Rachel also recommends using it for your purse and car.
Also good to know about this product: Free of petroleum, SLS, phosphate, phthalates, and dye. Cruelty-free.
SHASHI Earrings – Value $55
These are rose gold ear climber earrings. (Check out the link to see how they look on the ear). I love the delicate style – I think these will go with almost anything!
Here is a picture to better show scale:
Verdict: I’m thrilled with this box. It can be challenging to put together a unique fashion box with only non-sized items, but I think Rachel has been killing it every quarter! The hat and watch are two items I rarely see in subscription boxes, and I really feel like this box nailed the fall theme with the color selections too.
What do you think of the Fall 2015 Box of Style?
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Written by Liz Cadman
I’m really disappointed right now. The metal on one my earrings is stripping off and I only wore them twice. I contacted them, and after two days, they responded with “it’s more than thirty days and we don’t have any stock so sorry.” That’s not an acceptable response! I’ve written to many companies and they generally try to work with dissatisfied customers, especially if they clearly sent out a defective product. I wrote back to them, but I’m now on guard for my next box. This is not okay.
The metal on my earrings stripping and flaking too. The good thing is that it’s sterling silver underneath so you can polish it or dip it in silver solution which will brighten up the silver- mine was black underneath at first. But it obviously doesn’t put the plate back on. It just makes it look less obvious. Another thing that you could probably do is take it to a jeweler and have it dipped in rhodium and that will turn it an all white metal.
It sucks that the zoe customer service isnt offering some other kind of solution. I understand if they don’t have any stock left but they could figure out something else to do. I would contact them about mine but I already had to deal with them about my box not getting shipped out. I don’t want to mess with it anymore. However, I still subscribed to the winter box… We’ll see how that goes.
Thanks for the response to my comment! This feels like a support group. I’m so upset with them. I think it was just how flippantly they didn’t even attempt to make it right, and then said “we sincerely apologize.” No you don’t! The earrings are rose gold so making the posts more silver will look odd, but I’ll see how much worse it gets. The shame is I realized this was a problem like two weeks ago and then it still would’ve been in the 30 days but it didn’t occur to me that it would be an issue, especially as it’s the first time I’ve contacted them about anything.
I’m also still subscribed and I’m trying to understand why. I loved the experience of unboxing this box (it was my first luxury box), but at the end of the day, I only kept the watch and the earrings (and the fabric thingie, but does that even count?). And I’m a size 4.5 ring so that Alexis Bittar ring will be huge on me. I think subscription boxes do something to your brain…and not in a good way.
Update! They have now told me they will credit $10 to my account as “a one-time exception.” That satisfies me. Now I just need to make sure that my account is actually credited….
I had even worse luck with those earrings. I had them on exactly 4 times. When I tried to put them on the fifth time, they just broke! So I can’t use them at all.
They lasted 4 times. I was so upset but I usually don’t contact companies and complain.
I did last week when BeautyDNA send me Hydroxatone and without luck. That’s my “luck” :-/
This is the real thing with all plated jewelery. The gold silver or rose plated fades away in a few uses. Always. No matter brand or the price The earrings are solid and real 925 sterling silver, so clean it off the rose plated and you could use it in silver.
Pd. I’ve found the same earrings in a local store in yellow gold, rose gold and silver, half cost. Not similar. The same earrings
Really? I don’t usually buy fake jewelry (and because of that, jewelry altogether). That’s ridiculous. Jewelry isn’t disposable. How would you clean off the rose gold around all the little crystals without it looking splotchy?
And that’s crazy! It said Shashi also or it had a different brand?
Check yourself. Same earrings half price
http://aranjewels.com/es/categorias/pendientes/productos
So this comment is a bit late and I’m not sure if anyone will see it, but I recently discovered that the hat is NOT supposed to be worn directly on top of the head! That’s why it may seem small: it’s supposed to be worn at an angle at the back of the head. Now that I’ve started wearing it like this, I LOVE the hat!
I just had my wAtch and a bracelet stolen Saturday. Feel so sad …. Maybe someone has one to swap? If not I will swap the case and grey band.
If anyone is interested I’m selling my box for $106 plus the cost of shipping. Everything is still wrapped and in the box.
Looks like Customer Service is changing what they said. Here’s the next email I got from them, in response to an angry message pointing out their horrible customer service.
“Hi Jen,
We believe there was a miscommunication. Cluse is sending us more product but we don’t have any dates of when it will be receiving in our warehouse and when it will be sent to you but we promise to take care of your damage. We truly are sorry and appreciate your patience! 🙂
xoxo
Team Zoe”
In their last email they said “We will follow up with you if we get more stock in.” Now they are saying that they “promise to take care of the damage.” Hmmm. I guess lots of people got damaged watch bands, and it’s a lot for them to deal with right now. I’ll just wait to see whether they follow through on their word.