Are you able to speak to me about how on earth the 2 of you ended up in your present roles together with your present careers?
Nicole DeJulio: Whereas I used to be in class for design, I interned for 2 totally different stylists. On the time, there weren’t plenty of celeb stylists in Los Angeles. There was solely a handful. I had the chance to work with Phillip Bloch and Linda Medvene. From that have, I used to be like, “I believe I am actually into the design a part of this job, so I am going to focus on design.”
I had this nice thought. I used to be on the brink of graduate. I had like six months left, and I had this nice concept that I used to be going to suggest to my dad to proceed my research and get a grasp’s in costume design. After I offered the concept to him, he actually laughed in my face, and he stated, “No, you are not. You are gonna get a job.” I used to be like, “Oh, okay.” Reduce to some nights later, we have been at dinner in New York in Soho, and three cubicles over was Linda Medvene.
I used to be so excited to see her and likewise so nervous. … Will she keep in mind me? How do I say hello? What do I do? My 8-year-old niece Kayla checked out me and stated, “What is the huge deal? I imply, what is the worst that may occur?” Simply listening to that from her, I obtained up from the desk, and I walked over. She was pretty. We exchanged numbers, and it felt actually good to have the braveness to stroll as much as any person who I actually appeared as much as.
Then it was six months later, and I made a decision to make a listing of all of the folks I had met since shifting to L.A.—not essentially to search for a job however simply to attach and see what they have been enthusiastic about within the enterprise, what was taking place within the enterprise. Linda occurred to be the primary particular person on my listing, and he or she answered the telephone. She stated, “Oh my gosh, Nicole, I can not consider you are calling me. I wanted you to begin yesterday.”
I did, and Wendi and I each went on to help Linda [Medvene] for about two and a half years.
Wendi Ferreira: I obtained introduced in as a result of I had moved to L.A. from Orange County in January of, I believe, 2001. I got here right here. I wished a job. I had been working in style at Guess. Nicole known as me and was like, “We want you now. We want you to fulfill us on the tailor’s. We want you to fulfill Denise Richards. Linda and I are busy, and we won’t get there in time for her.” So I present up, and this is identical factor: It is the braveness it takes to determine you are able to do this and leaping into one thing brand-new. I present up, and I launched myself to Denise Richards as Linda Medvene’s assistant and took it from there. Carried on with the Golden Globes that 12 months.
That was the beginning of Nicole and I working collectively as assistants. Alternative took us in numerous instructions from each other. In 2003, after about two and a half years of helping, Nicole went on to do a tour with Sheryl Crow, and I labored on The Ellen DeGeneres Present. After a few 12 months and a half or two years of that, we’re like, “What are we doing? Why aren’t we doing this collectively?” So we teamed up, and right here we’re.