1. Nick Verreos began college at UCLA, studying Political Science and International Relations, but after graduation, turned his interest to fashion design and pursued additional work at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
Nick Verreos completed the Advanced Fashion Design Program at FIDM in 1993.
Nick Verreos began teaching at FIDM in 2003 and has been associated with the school ever since.
Nick Verreos was one of the regular panel members on TV Guide Network's Fashion Wrap, which covered the Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, Emmy Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2012 and 2013.
In January 2008, Nick Verreos appeared on an episode of the CW show Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants to help the mothers and daughters with their pageant gowns and choose which team had the best outfits.
In 2009, Nick Verreos mentored a group of FIDM students as they, and he, at Mattel's request, created one-of-a-kind designs for the FIDM Barbie 50th Anniversary Collection.
In 2011, Nick Verreos participated in a mock-reality TV-themed advertising campaign for Virgin Mobile, portraying a stylist to a fictional celebrity couple: SPARAH.
In June 2005, Nick Verreos participated in the second season of Project Runway, a reality television program in which fashion designers compete against each other for a design mentorship with Banana Republic, seed money to start their own line, and other prizes.
Nick Verreos won the "All Dolled Up" challenge in the third episode in which designers had to design a dress for the My Scene Barbie collection.
Nick Verreos was judged one of the top three designers during the "Social Scene" challenge in the fifth episode.
Nick Verreos was eliminated after the Makeover Challenge in which he was charged with designing a fashion makeover for fellow contestant Daniel Vosovic when he failed to add pockets to the pants, a move the judges thought made his fellow contestant appear too feminine.
Nick Verreos appeared in an April 2008 episode of the Karma Air show Fashion 411 with Barbra Horowitz to share some of the behind the scenes experiences on Project Runway, as well as the events and projects with which he was then involved.
In September 2016, Nick Verreos began his 13th season of blogging on Lifetime's official Project Runway website.
From 2019 to 2021, after Project Runway returned to Bravo, Nick Verreos served as a consulting producer on the show.
Nick Verreos has made a personal commitment to supporting LGBTQ civil rights, and supports non-profit organizations such as The Human Rights Campaign, The Trevor Project and GLAAD.
Nick Verreos emceed a fundraising event for GenderPAC in 2008.
In Spring 2009, Nick Verreos was invited to be photographed in one of the early photo shoots for Adam Bouska and Jeff Parshley's NOH8 Campaign, and can be seen in the "behind the scenes" video.
Nick Verreos's father was a US State Department diplomat in Panama, and met Nick Verreos's mother there.
Nick Verreos described how his mother's gift of a sewing machine inspired him to think beyond fashion illustration, and to think about what it would be like to design and create fashion.