Nicole Chavez has styled some of the biggest names in Hollywood, from her first client, Rachel Bielsen, to stars like Kristen Bell and Scarlett Johansson.

Now Nicole is drawing back the curtain on how she made the leap from costuming to celebrity

styling, the role of intuition in her work, and why she is on a mission to help everyone

cultivate style confidence. Nicole, thank you so much for doing this.

Thank you for having me. This is exciting.

I love the way you describe your upbringing, which is working class, hippie parents in California. Can you give me a sense of what

that childhood was like? It was pretty perfect, I have to say. I don't have a lot of complaints.

My family moved to an area called La Cagnata, and I lived there my whole life. I was born there.

And it was just a beautiful, cute little neighborhood to grow up in. Everybody, I mean, this is so dating myself, but we just rode bikes,

roller skated, hung out with friends, came in when it was dark. I mean, life was really simple then.

And it was great. Yeah, I mean, that's, especially now that we're raising kids of our own. It's like, that's the dream. Just like

throw them out in the street and have them come home and time for dinner. And it's hard to find now.

Yes. The way you describe your mom reminds me of my own mom and myself to some degree, which is like a

not particularly ornate person,

someone not super into style or to fashion. It's really your grandmother. That's your big

inspiration. Can you tell me about her? Let me talk about my mom for a second, because it wasn't

that she wasn't into fashion, but it just wasn't like a priority

for her. So for her, it was just more about, you know, taking care of us and making sure that we were

happy and my dad was happy, all of that. So like, fashion stuff was second rate. But my mom was an

amazing caretaker and still is. And so when my grandmother got sick,

pretty early on in my life, she came to live with us. And I'd always been very close to her,

but that time in particular, we just had such a deep connection. It was like five,

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