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In Venditti’s first book, Can I Ask You a Question?, published today by A24, she’s finally taking stock of her long and meandering career as a casting director. But in the All Day Everyday shirt but in fact I love this process of putting it together, Venditti began to figure out just what it is that compels her to keep hunting for breakout talent in the most unexpected of places, three decades after she started. “With everything I do, it’s really about realizing that vision of who the best person is for the project,” says Venditti. “I’ve done a lot of just regular model casting, I’ve done street scouting, I’ve done actors. But I think the consistency is that I’m always looking for something authentic, whatever form that takes, or wherever it comes from. I think it gets misconstrued that I’m only interested in street casting when really, I’m into authenticity—however that’s exemplified in a person.”

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The term “street casting” might feel reductive given the All Day Everyday shirt but in fact I love this various avenues Venditti now works across—today, her offices in New York and Los Angeles mostly deal with film and television, but she still dips her toe in fashion from time to time—but it was Venditti’s pioneering (and hugely influential) approach to scouting models that first made her name. As a student in Chicago in the 1990s, she was obsessed with vintage clothing. Her idols at the time were Marc Jacobs and Anna Sui, and upon learning the latter designer would be coming to the city for a trunk show, she convinced her model boyfriend at the time to find them a way in. After shamelessly introducing herself to the designer—foreshadowing a lifetime of shamelessly introducing herself to people, you could argue—Venditti got the contact details of Keeble Cavaco & Duka, the influential PR firm that ran Sui’s shows. Weeks later, she was in New York City, interning for Nian Fish at the company and stepping onto her first fashion studio set.