Nini Nguyen has had a passion for fashion since she began working in a fashion store during her early years in America from Vietnam.
The 26-year-old stylist for pop star Rihanna had just came to America then and felt a lot of pressure to make sales at her new job, she told ToiTreNews. Before long she became the store’s top seller.
Soon she adopted a taste for fashion despite her limited budget.
“Things I could buy were not beautiful and things which were beautiful, I could not afford,” she shared. But she figured out a way to turn her “not-beautiful” clothes into something creative and fashionable.
She come a long ways since then.
Earlier this year she won Vanity Fair’s International Best-dressed Challenge contest.
She now runs a fashion blog Ninistyle.net.
It was on the bloggersphere that she came to the attention of Rihanna.
The singer started following her on Instagram and began liking more and more of Nguyen’s photos.
You can read about how this lead to Rihanna finally contacting Nguyen and asking her to be her official stylist in ToiTreNews.