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Joining fellow fashionista Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie is set to offer up some of her design expertise as a celebrity mentor on NBC’s Fashion Star.

Nicole has her own clothing line, Winter Kate (her daughter Harlow’s two middle names), so she certainly brings experience to the program.

Elle MacPherson will handle hosting duties on Fashion Star.

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Fashion Star is slated to debut later this year.

“Jessica, Nicole, John and Elle make the most exciting team we have ever worked with on a reality TV show and we are thrilled to feature such an extraordinary group of mentors and designers,” executive producer Ben Silverman said.

Although she helms a fashion empire of sorts, mom of two Richie says her own personal style is much less thought out than you’d think.

 
“I don’t think it’s as prepared as you’d think,” she recently told U.K.’s In Style magazine. “I just grab whatever’s around and put it on.”

She’s “pretty much a jeans and T-shirt type of girl and then I go from there,” she says, then adds that this is one of her favorite tricks:

“I collect a lot of vintage kimonos and jackets. I’ll throw those on, and a lot of the time it will appear that I’m wearing a different outfit, but I’m not.”