Nikola Vendettoli is the saint of transformation and inclusion. The fashion events, roller derby, and parties she’s thrown for over a decade have provided a venue for countless creative souls to express themselves, come together and forget the stress and lame of the everyday. Nikola has become notorious for the beautiful, strange, and outlandishly dressed people who flock to her events.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, growing up in a small desert town in Arizona she escaped the conformist life and moved to Texas at the age of 17. While there, she sold clothing that she made at raves, strip clubs, and on consignment in several stores around Austin and central Texas. She opened her own store where she sold the clothing that she made.

In 2002 Nikola tried out for a local Austin all-female roller derby league, produced by Bad Girl Good Woman Productions. She was selected to skate on the team Las Putas Del Fuego. She has made appearances on the A&E Network reality show Rollergirls (2006) and the CrashCam Films documentary Hell on Wheels (which was released in 2007).

In 2003 she moved back to Arizona and continued to make and sell clothing there while she pursued school in the medical field. In the year 2005, Nikola was working in Phlebotomy and desperately wanted to move back to Austin where she had just found her soul family in the roller derby community there. She had skated for Arizona Roller Derby, but she didn’t feel the love she lost in ATX. She founded Arizona Derby Dames, which started off as a flat-track roller derby league in Phoenix, AZ.

Nikola completed the Histology Program in 2006 and has been working in the Pathology and Histology field since. She has worked on several assay designs and validations during her time in the laboratory and traveled to Tucson, AZ, Santa Barbara, CA, Providence, RI, and Austin, TX for continuous training and education.

She skated with her league, The AZ Derby Dames at Rollercon in Las Vegas, NV, and Battle on The Bank in Austin, TX. She coordinated the very first banked track bout in Oklahoma City against the Red Dirt Rebellion on the same banked track that was used in the movie Whip It, directed by Drew Barrymore and starring Juliette Lewis. In 2009 the league moved to Veteran's Memorial Coliseum. A year later the league played in front of over 4000 people on the first banked track bout in Phoenix since the 1960s. She also founded another all-female flat-track roller derby league the Arizona Rollergirls 2010.

In 2011 Hell on Heels Couture Nikola created her own line of alternative dancer and stagewear. She won the RAW Artists Fashion Designer of the Year award that same year. Since then, she has done over a dozen fashion shows, like her solo show of reclaimed fashion, The Sinical Ball in Houston, TX, Haute Noir produced by Angela Ryan at The Church in Dallas, TX, and a sustainable fashion awareness show at The Lavatory in Phoenix, AZ.

On the very special date of 11.11.11. Nikola threw her first dance party called CUPCAKE! at The Rogue Bar. The monthly parties became the place to see and be seen for a trendsetting group of alternative models, photographers, and rockers that ushered in a new era in nightlife, one that mixed uptown and downtown, gay and straight, chic and street.

She also entered the world of cabaret in 2017 by creating Lucky Teeth, her monthly eclectic risqué show extravaganza at The Rogue Bar. Adding to her long list of creative events and happenings. She has also produced live concert-focused events, fashion shows, pop-up shops, and hosting group photoshoots over the years.

She has been DJing for the past decade, landing her gigs like Club Sanctuary, Torture Garden LA, Wasteland Weekend and Insomniac produced Escape Halloween.

In 2020, when the global pandemic of Covid-19 hit, Nikola created QUARANTINE BUT MAKE IT FASHION and MANDATED MASKS to donate masks and raise funds that went directly to those affected by covid-19 and hands-on organizations.

Her current focus is on fashion activism. Her latest project is titled NO WIRE HANGERS [EVER] featuring fashion + activism for the global abortion-rights movement through music and 1:1 merchandise using a sustainable approach.