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"  In her sunny Williamsburg, Brooklyn, apartment, casting director and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Venditti energetically pulls favorite pieces from her closet. First, it&amp;#039;s a &amp;#039;60s-style, flower-print one-piece swimsuit. &amp;quot;Isn&amp;#039;t this fantastic?&amp;quot; she asks. &amp;quot;I got it at a vintage store in Prague while visiting my friend who was working on Liev Schreiber&amp;#039;s film Everything Is Illuminated.&amp;quot; Next she digs out a London Fog trench (a hand-me-down from her grandmother), followed by a white Christian Dior collared men&amp;#039;s shirt, a gift from the cinematographer who worked on her directorial debut, Billy the Kid. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a trend person,&amp;quot; she says, tying her hair back into a knot. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t like a contrived look\u2014I like things to be thrown off a bit. I want to see the soul behind the clothes.&amp;quot; Venditti has made a career of seeking out the backstory. For the past decade, the New York native has been the go-to casting director for fashion designers such as Marc Jacobs and for cinematic commercials like the one she recently did for Levi&amp;#039;s. It was on a casting job that she met a brilliant but troubled teen\u2014now the subject of her documentary, which won the coveted Best Documentary Feature prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m about expanding people&amp;#039;s ideas of beauty,&amp;quot; Venditti says\u2014a rule she also applies to fashion. Right now, Venditti is into mixing unexpected pieces, like a space-age bolero from Balenciaga with fur Fendi boots and a Victorian-style Mayle dress. But for the self-described fashion chameleon, the process is as important as the find, whether that means hunting down the sleeper stunner in a Comme des Gar\u00E7ons collection or visiting a Michigan boutique and finding a discounted Junya Watanabe anorak that would be long sold out in New York. &amp;quot;Whether it&amp;#039;s film, casting, or fashion, it&amp;#039;s the detective aspect I love. I&amp;#039;m always looking for that discovery.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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