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"We&amp;#x27;re just days away from the January 2 premiere of It&amp;#x27;s A Brad, Brad World on Bravo, which means celebrity stylist and former Rachel Zoe assistant Brad Goreski is dishing on everything from life in front of the camera to his most famous relationship (and no, we don&amp;#x27;t mean his boyfriend). Check out his candid interview with Slaves to Fashion, after the jump. STF: Congrats on the show! How different is it to be starring in your own vehicle than the experience of having a smaller role on someone else&amp;#x27;s show? BG: It was a very different thing to be kind of a supporting character to switching into a lead role. I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s natural for someone to think they&amp;#x27;re interesting enough to sustain having cameras around them every day for three months, so I definitely felt like it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be compelling enough, but in the end hopefully it is. Having had an experience with a reality show before, at least my nerves were down low. I made a deal with myself that I would be very open and wear my heart on my sleeve. I allowed all access, because that&amp;#x27;s when you get the most authentic show. On the last day of filming, I just felt like the camera crew really captured what was going on with me. STF: There&amp;#x27;s a lot more of your personal life on this show--did you set any ground rules for stuff you wouldn&amp;#x27;t allow on camera? How did you avoid having that Bethenny moment of peeing in front of a cameraman? BG: My show is very Bethenny! It&amp;#x27;s a little more Bethenny, a little less Housewives. I&amp;#x27;d say the rule that we made was that we were going to do it only if every single day we had fun. If it came to a point where we were getting stressed out or talking to each other differently or fighting all the time because of the cameras, that we would address it, and thankfully we never had to do that. It was more about celebrating each other and our successes. Of course there&amp;#x27;s a lot of drama and I cry a lot. My boyfriend sort of knows what to do but doesn&amp;#x27;t know what to do, so it&amp;#x27;s really authentic. The fact that I&amp;#x27;m gay, that&amp;#x27;s kind of one of the last aspects I use to define my personality, but it was amazing to have a chance to show our relationship and let people see that our families are okay with it and it can be a totally normal thing. STF: Did you ever imagine you&amp;#x27;d be a reality star? Are you the kind of person who likes that very particular kind of spotlight? BG: When I first got the job with Rachel and she told me there was going to be a reality show following her, I was a little bit hesitant. I said, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know if I can take the job, I don&amp;#x27;t know if I feel comfortable.&amp;quot; My boyfriend was like, &amp;quot;How are you going to feel when you turn on the show and you see it?&amp;quot; and I thought, &amp;quot;like i wish I&amp;#x27;d done it.&amp;quot; So I credit him. It&amp;#x27;s not something I ever thought I&amp;#x27;d do--my skill is as a stylist, and when the camera stops, my job still continues. But I look at the opportunity to have a TV show--especially someone like me, who&amp;#x27;s from a small town in Canada--in addition to doing what I love every day, and it&amp;#x27;s really icing on the cake. I&amp;#x27;m extremely grateful to Bravo. STF: Speaking of your experience on Rachel&amp;#x27;s show...I know you&amp;#x27;re sick of this, but I have to ask. She famously had a bad fallout with Nicole Richie, and then the whole drama with Taylor leaving, and now this spat with you. Is she just really bad at breaking up? What&amp;#x27;s going on there? BG: I think part of it is that she&amp;#x27;s not only a stylist, but a celebrity in her own right, so people are naturally interested in the goings on in her life. Having seen those two things happen, I really tried to be as honest as possible when I left, because I really wanted to avoid stepping into the pitfalls of whats happened with previous assistants and other things. when I left and went off on my own, I felt like I had managed to do that. I don&amp;#x27;t really know what it is, but I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know what I&amp;#x27;ve done to her. If my assistant goes off and becomes successful and people want to work with him, I&amp;#x27;d take that as a compliment that I&amp;#x27;d trained them well. There&amp;#x27;s a part of me that wishes she could take it as a compliment and see she&amp;#x27;s a part of my success. STF: Have you heard from her directly since all of this went down, or are you just hearing stuff through the press the same way we are? BG: I haven&amp;#x27;t heard anything directly from her. None of my information has changed--still the same phone number, still the same email, but I never heard from her. It was clear from the press release we released to People magazine that I was going to go off and be my own stylist. I don&amp;#x27;t know where it got mixed up that I was going to drop off the face of the earth, but I never ever said that. It&amp;#x27;s very clear that my path has been that I&amp;#x27;d to go off and have some sort of job and presence. STF: Which you&amp;#x27;ve totally done. Who are some of your new clients since you&amp;#x27;ve set out on your own? BG: I&amp;#x27;ve been working with Jessica Alba for over a year now and she is a dream and a delight. She&amp;#x27;s been so great to me and was the first person to kind of take a chance on me. I&amp;#x27;ve recently started working with Noomi Rapace and I&amp;#x27;ve also been working with Rashida Jones and Abigail Spencer and Christina Ricci. STF: What&amp;#x27;s the next for you beyond styling? It seems like the natural direction would be towards your own clothing line? BG: The market is so incredibly saturated with celebrity-cum-designer lines that I don&amp;#x27;t really know if that&amp;#x27;s the angle I want to take. My business is really just starting to pick up, and we&amp;#x27;re all in a group here and Brad Goreski Inc. and my clients are really happy and for me that&amp;#x27;s kind of the focus right now. I have a book coming out in February so that&amp;#x27;s kind of a focus as well, but in terms of that type of branding, I&amp;#x27;m not really sure what the next steps are. I can&amp;#x27;t say I haven&amp;#x27;t thought about it, but in the immediate near future I don&amp;#x27;t see myself having a clothing line. I&amp;#x27;m happy to learn and I&amp;#x27;d be happy to consult with one of my clients and a designer on a gown, but I&amp;#x27;m really good at coming up with a concept for a photo shoot or creating an image on the red carpet and working on those skills is something that&amp;#x27;s more important to me at this point in my career than coming out with a prom gown line. STF: That&amp;#x27;s pretty refreshing to hear. But seriously, if you had a prom gown line, I bet it would sell like gangbusters. BG: Okay, maybe it&amp;#x27;s not too late to reconsider?! It&amp;#x27;s a Brad, Brad World premieres January 2nd on Bravo, catch a sneak peek here, then let us know what you think! PLUS! - See Brad&amp;#x27;s DOs and DON&amp;#x27;Ts AND... - Check out his critique of one Glamour staffer&amp;#x27;s outfit! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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