Matteo Chizzola

I was born and raised in NYC by creative parents from Italy, who I can (now) thank for teaching me Italian. I attended high school at Packer Collegiate Institute, in Brooklyn - where I learned to love expressing myself through art... and basketball. My pop is a photographer and my mamma is a stylist, they own an apple orchard in Upstate, NY, called Westwind Orchard. I've worked in restaurants since I was 14 - spending summers bussing tables at Via Carota - to more recently, serving and bartending at The Odeon. I currently live in LA, but am bi-coastal as my roots... and heart are still in New York!