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Birthday: 1970-05-30
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Education: Self-taught
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“What I hope to create are clothes for those who relate to freedom, rebellion, creation, and self-expression. What it might look like if the world were dressed in slightly mind-bending colors and shapes, smartly designed prêt-a-porter and then experienced an apocalypse.”

“Music is in my blood, as well as art and fashion,” says Jeffrey Sebelia, 36, the founder and designer behind clothing label Cosa Nostra. At age 16, Jeff left home to live in a garage with his punk band where he fell into a life of music, art and fast times, all supported by a mild criminal habit. It was, according to Jeff, “A lifestyle of freedom, rebellion and self-expression. Working for little money and ‘trade.’ ”

Jeff finally began to focus, market, and legitimize his love for art and fashion when Interscope records discovered his band, LIFTER, and signed them for six years beginning in the early nineties and ultimately Cosa Nostra was born. The label has a long line of celebrity clientele, including Gwen Stefani, Billy Bob Thornton, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more. Cosa Nostra is sold exclusively at limited high-end designer stores such as Maxfield in Los Angeles, BNY in Santa Monica, Patch in St. Tropez and Harvey Nichols in London and Hong Kong.

“I’ve grown to love fashion, namely John Galliano, Comme Des Garcons, Vivienne Westwood, Ann Demeulemeester, Junya Watanabe, Rick Owens, and Yohji Yamamoto,” says Jeffrey, but it was watching his friend Santino that inspired him to try out for season three. He says, “It seemed fun and challenging.” Jeffrey currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

i love jeff's style i thought his collection was killer he desired to win blaugh 3nodding

What did everyone think about the whole angela's mom thing.

i honestly think jeff's mom said it the best in it that every mom sister or relative was there to help the designers, i'm sure there were other people who didn't like what they were wearing but they played it off like they did. and i personally think her mom overreacted

I think she did kind of overreact, but Jeff did a bad job on her outfit. I guess it's just a lack of communication which made the whole situation go awol.


Other than that, I loved his final collection. I would wear most of them (except the Uli clone dress or that mini blue thing). heart domokun

OMG!! i loved jeffs clothes!!! and he actually didn't seem that bad of a person really.

i honestly LOVE jeffrey's design style its so edgy and original. i admire him greatly. he also has an awesome personality from what i saw. oh and the whole thing with angela's mom was sucky. man she overreacted with it (not that it was a groovy outfit for her) but you know i mean comon man. well either way i love him xd defenitly is amazing 4laugh

I heart Jeffrey's zipper dress with green and white , kinda copied uli with the patterns tho