Vietnamese-American Stylist Beverly Nguyen Pays Tribute to Her Family and Friends With a New Pop-Up Shop
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During a recent stay in her home city of Los Angeles, New York–based stylist Beverly Nguyen (a Vogue alum and the former studio director for Kate Young) was inspired to dream up her latest venture: a pop-up of homewares called Beverly’s, which opened last weekend in downtown Manhattan. The move home, prolonged by the pandemic, wasn’t intended to last most of 2020, and initially left Nguyen feeling “really displaced, and really out of sync with my work. I didn’t have access to my usual tools, and I just had to reevaluate what my craft looked like if I’m not around those things.” In that time, she reconnected with her parents, Vietnamese immigrants who met as refugees on a boat to America in the 1980s, and who have gone on to run a successful fashion and garments manufacturing business. “I started recognizing how much I loved my parents, how much I had missed them,” says Nguyen, who helped shift their business to produce N95 masks during the first lockdown. “After that project, I needed to pivot. I was thinking about what my parents could do, mixed with me trying to make sense of moving back to New York, which manifested in this shop.”