Robert Verdi - Guest Expert

Episode 3

Fashion and lifestyle expert Robert Verdi serves as a guest expert on the new USA Network original reality/competiton series Made in the USA. He appears on episode 3, "Does It Look Good?" to test the inventors' aesthetic know-how by supervising them in a makeover challenge.

Verdi's design input has helped update the digs and the duds of celebrities including Eva Longoria, Hugh Jackman, Sandra Bernhard, Mariska Hargitay, Bobby Flay, and Jolie Fisher. Verdi has recently appeared as an interior design and fashion expert on The View, Regis & Kelly, and The Today Show, as well as on cable's CNN Headline News and VHI's The Fabulous Life Of...

Verdi was raised in suburban New Jersey and got a taste for the finer things in life by watching his Portuguese mother, a skilled dressmaker, and noshing on culinary delights prepared by his father, a French chef. During his senior year in high school, he began designing and making jewelry and selling it on the streets of Manhattan and to downtown boutiques. He went on to earn a degree from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, and eventually had his jewelry showcased in Manhattan's "fabulous four Bs" - Barneys, Bendel, Bloomingdales, and Bergdorf.

In the early 90's, Verdi sacrificed stringing jewels and redirected his pursuits towards a television career. He began with a stint as a fashion reporter on Gay Entertainment Television, and went on to host several seasons of E! Entertainment's Fashion Police and to co-host Discovery Channel's most successful daytime show, Surprise by Design. He also helped create and host Metro TV's Full Frontal Fashion.