Veronica Scott (born November 19, 1986) is an American
television personality,
fashion designer, and
entrepreneur. Scott is best known for being featured in the
Current TV reality show
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...
''The Fuchsia Girls'', which follows her personal and professional life as she pursues a career in the fashion industry. Scott also co-owns the fashion company and design house
Fuchsia with business partner
Lawren Pope.
Early life
Scott was born in 1986 in
Dallas, Texas, to Johnnie Lee Scott, Jr., and Rebecca Scott. Scott, who is
multiracial
Mixed race people are people of more than one race or ethnicity. A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for mixed race people in a variety of contexts, including ''multiethnic'', ''polyethnic'', occasionally ''bi-ethn ...
, is of
Hispanic and
African American descent. She has one brother, Johnnie Lee Scott III, who is eight years younger than her. Scott attended
River Oaks Elementary in Houston from kindergarten to the fifth grade.
Scott began college at private
Houston Baptist University as an international business major for three quarters. She then moved from
Houston to
San Diego and enrolled at the private
University of San Diego
The University of San Diego (USD) is a private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego, California. Chartered in July 1949 as the independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University (comprising the College for Men and Schoo ...
School of Business Administration. Today, Scott resides in San Diego with longtime friend and Fuchsia co-owner Lawren Pope.
Scott’s lack of art and design schooling has been somewhat of a controversy with a few fashion industry seniors. In a 2008 interview with fashion editor Elizabeth Stein, Scott notes that she has been somewhat "snubbed by certain members of the fashion industry, for not doing any time at a
FIDM
The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) is a private college in downtown Los Angeles. It offers degree programs in majors including fashion, entertainment, beauty, interior design, and graphic design. The college was founded in ...
or
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Career
Fuchsia
According to Troy Anderson, staff writer of ''
Los Angeles Daily News
The ''Los Angeles Daily News'' is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is the flagship of the Southern California News Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media.
The offices of the ''Dai ...
'',
and ''NBIZ'' magazine,
Scott has always known that she wanted to own a fashion retail business and even “expressed an interest in fashion design as early as age 6." This interest led to the future collaboration with Pope, whom Scott met seven years later at
Westside High School.
[Anderson, Troy]
At age 14, Scott teamed with Pope to open the fashion company Fuchsia.
[Baird, Annette] Six months later, they released their first collection of
ready-to-wear cocktail attire at a self-produced runway show in Spring, Texas. Scott premiered the video footage of the
fashion show on the Fuchsia official site, scoring the interest of several local media journalists. Most of Fuchsia’s early income and public interest can be attributed to this.
As
webmaster of the Fuchsia online boutique, Scott has designed and created every released version to date, of the Fuchsia Official Site and E-shop located at www.FuchsiaOnline.com.
Anderson, who profiled Scott for an article on
E-Commerce noted that Scott actually prefers an internet store front to a physical boutique. Scott says that the online boutique works out great, "because we're still in college and we don't have to maintain a storefront 24/7."
Save The Girls
In 2007, Scott co-founded the
501(c)(3)
A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 50 ...
non-profit organization Save The Girls. Save The Girls provides cash scholarships, scholarship education, and college application assistance to schools, groups, and individual students in need. In 2008, Scott took on the position of chair at the organization.
Save The Girls also sponsors the Grace House in
Chisinau, Moldova.
In July 2008, Scott traveled on a
mission trip for the first time to Moldova with the non-profit Justice and Mercy. During her visit to the Grace House – a transitional home for female graduates of the Internat
Orphanage- Scott requested emergency aid funds from Save the Girls to improve the poor living conditions of the girls living in the home. On her return to the U.S., Scott successfully moved to keep funding the Grace House as a Save the Girls project. Scott is currently producing a new web shop for the girls of the Grace House to sell handmade jewelry and clothing. All profits fund the Grace House project.
References
External links
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Official Fuchsia siteThe Fuchsia Girls official websiteSave The Girls official website
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1986 births
American fashion businesspeople
American Protestant missionaries
Female Christian missionaries
American fashion designers
American women fashion designers
American female models
American television actresses
Living people
Actresses from Dallas
Actresses from Houston
Houston Christian University alumni
University of San Diego alumni
21st-century American businesswomen