What to wear this summer and the best L.A. vintage finds, according to stylist Bin X. Nguyen

Bin X. Nguyen came of property successful the mid-2000s astatine the tallness of personage paparazzi culture, watching MTV, poring implicit Teen Vogue, and pursuing icons similar Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie from his chamber successful the suburbs of San Jose.

“Escaping the mundane beingness of suburbia was truly what influenced my childhood,” Nguyen says. “When I was 8 oregon 9, watching ‘America’s Next Top Model’ with the icon that is Tyra Banks and watching ‘Project Runway,’ I was truly inspired by fashion. You saw however glamorous and unglamorous manner is, and someway this satellite was truthful enticing to me.”

“The Devil Wears Prada” came retired erstwhile Nguyen was a teen, which helium describes arsenic the “catalyst” for his clip arsenic a manner and civilization writer astatine his assemblage newspaper, and later, Santa Barbara Magazine. While helium was there, helium met stylists connected the screen shoots. Between witnessing their creativity successful existent clip and consuming media similar “The Rachel Zoe Project,” Nguyen decided to determination to Los Angeles and statesman his vocation arsenic a nonrecreational wardrobe stylist.

Bin wears RTA faux fur coat, BoohooMan jacket, Bottega Veneta pants, Dora Teymur boots.

These days, Nguyen is known for styling everyone’s favourite musicians, from Katseye to Role Model to Phoebe Bridgers, with plentifulness of actors successful betwixt — deliberation Lana Condor, Jonathan Davis, Laysla De Oliveira and Alexandra Shipp.

He stresses the value of cultivating a consciousness of individuality done style: “I conscionable privation to make beauteous enactment that inspires people. At the extremity of the day, I privation to marque lasting images that radical volition reference.” He often pulls from his Vietnamese heritage, drafting from the layering of an áo dài portion working.

“Referencing aged Vietnamese photos of the ’70s and ’60s is truly important to bring my civilization to the forefront of fashion,” Nguyen says. “Having small touches that talk to you, whether it beryllium your jewelry oregon your chapeau oregon your scarves, each these things are important to you arsenic a special, dynamic being.”

Nguyen jokes that his idiosyncratic benignant doesn’t ever springiness L.A.

“It’s L.A., we unrecorded successful athleisure. Don’t get maine wrong, erstwhile I bash returns, I’m successful athleisure. But erstwhile I spell out, it’s important to service a look,” Nguyen says. “You privation to serve, arsenic the girls say, c—. That’s a portion of L.A. that’s precise niche. L.A. radical volition spell retired successful similar jeans and a T-shirt, whereas I’m successful vintage decorator apparel and a 4-inch heel, you know?”

My astir memorable sprout was with an NBA subordinate named Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.  We changeable successful a edifice country ace quick. I emotion a popular miss and an jock — I deliberation my imagination clients are both. I conscionable privation to amusement disconnected assemblage and skin, and I privation them to look ultra-cool.

One sprout I’m astir arrogant of is with Katseye for the screen of Teen Vogue.  It’s truthful peculiar to enactment with a radical of divers girls, and they’re truthful unsocial and talented. The aesthetic was the aboriginal 2000s, beachy, young, fresh, similar Abercrombie. That’s thing that I grew up seeing each the time, similar the models connected the Abercrombie bags and going to Hollister and seeing their design.

So they wanted to physique that into this 2025 mentation of it, but divers and cool. I deliberation we decidedly accomplished that. It was besides a afloat ellipse infinitesimal for maine due to the fact that erstwhile I was 15 and 16, Teen Vogue was the mag that I subscribed to. I would cod the copies each period and there’s inactive a stack of them successful my closet, truthful it’s precise breathtaking to person that infinitesimal now.

A infinitesimal wherever I felt similar I made it was getting to spell to Pharrell’s archetypal runway amusement for Louis Vuitton. There was a choir that came retired and sang this astonishing opus and Rihanna and ASAP Rocky were sitting crossed from me. Tears conscionable started falling from my eyes, and I was like, this is portion of the imagination that I had of being a portion of this life. Just to beryllium welcomed into this abstraction feels truthful brainsick to me.

Some of my imagination radical to enactment with are photographers similar Steven Meisel and Inez & Vinoodh. I would emotion to marque beauteous images with Nick Knight. In presumption of celebrities, Zoë Kravitz, Bella Hadid, Nicole Kidman — but astatine the aforesaid time, I privation to enactment with caller endowment similar Tyla and Chappell Roan.   They each person a consciousness of identity. I deliberation it’s truthful important to person your ain benignant and your ain idiosyncratic originative ideas of what you privation to look like.

Those girls person truly honed successful and cultivated their identity. And erstwhile you look astatine something, particularly if you look astatine a formal oregon a portion of art, and you subordinate that creation oregon that garment with that girl. I privation to make that with my ain lawsuit 1 day.

Three words to picture my ain day-to-day benignant are sensuality, preppy and edgy.  I emotion American sportswear. Ralph Lauren’s a immense power of mine, but there’s ever an borderline to it.  There’s similar a small concealed that’s elevated, and you are lone going to cognize erstwhile they privation to archer you. There’s a mystery.

Bin wears archival Roberto Cavalli for H&M vest, Levi’s pants, Stetson cowboy hat, Acne Studios boots. Bin wears archival Roberto Cavalli for H&M vest, Levi’s pants, Stetson cowboy hat, Acne Studios boots.

An perfect time successful L.A. is taking an hr to bash a yoga people oregon spell locomotion successful the park.  I hike erstwhile a week for 2 hours. I emotion my job, but it’s besides precise important to instrumentality attraction of your intelligence wellness and beryllium successful quality and find gratitude. There’s 1 called the Vermont Canyon Tennis Courts hike and you spell each the mode to Dante’s Peak.

As an Aries, my idiosyncratic benignant is ever-changing due to the fact that my property is truthful spontaneous. You conscionable privation to bash things each the time. You ne'er stop. If you conscionable an Aries, they’re like, “Let’s spell here, let’s bash this, let’s spell there.” I deliberation that plays into a batch of my enactment and my clothes. I’m ever thinking, what tin beryllium antithetic successful presumption of this image?

My affectional enactment covering point is a 4-inch boot. I’m not the tallest idiosyncratic — and erstwhile I deterioration my boots I’m inactive not the tallest idiosyncratic — but it brings successful a feeling of assurance wherever I tin stomp somewhere. Sometimes that’s each you need, and it changes your posture, and you conscionable consciousness similar you tin instrumentality thing down.

If I was a cocktail, I would be a St. Germain Spritz. It’s called a Hugo Spritz, but the halfway of it is St. Germain, Prosecco and nine soda, and connected a summertime time with mint and citrus … It’s truthful yummy. I privation I had immoderate successful my fridge. It is the astir refreshing drink. And I’m anti-Aperol. It’s each astir Hugo, similar you person to acquisition the Hugo Spritz. Your beingness volition change.

Bin wears Burberry coat, Bottega Veneta pants.

This summer, everyone volition beryllium wearing longer-length shorts. More radical are wearing committee shorts now, it’s not supra the genu anymore. And babe tees and Havaianas flip-flops.

If past summertime was brat summer, this summertime is where I’m going to beryllium truly anserine for the past time. It’s from idiosyncratic experience. This is the past summertime of my 20s. I conscionable consciousness similar I tin get distant with definite things successful my 20s earlier I crook 30, truthful this summertime is going to beryllium brainsick and anserine for me. When I crook 30 successful April, it’s going to beryllium astute spring, similar concern savvy, strategically everything. But this summertime is going to give, let’s puke. Let’s portion a s— ton of intoxicant and puke, due to the fact that I person 1 summertime near to bash that.

The champion vintage finds are astatine the Long Beach Antique Market. On the 3rd Sunday of the month, there’s this woman named Veronica. You volition find the astir unthinkable vintage. The look that I wore to the Vuitton amusement was from her vintage stall. And I emotion the Goodwill connected San Fernando successful Atwater Village wherever you bargain by the pound. You virtually person to travel successful with gloves and your headphones due to the fact that it’s specified an aggravated experience, but it’s truthful inexpensive and I person recovered gems from that Goodwill.

Bin wears Loewe overgarment and boots, Haikure jeans.

It’s truthful unserious for radical to beryllium like, “Fashion is everything, manner is my life.” Fashion is simply a large origin of planetary warming, and it tin make a batch of harm successful the world. It’s not encephalon surgery, but you’ll conscionable radical that marque it consciousness similar encephalon country and that’s erstwhile it’s not amusive anymore. I conscionable privation to person amusive and make beauteous images.

Something I privation radical knew astir the manner and styling manufacture is that 75% is hard enactment and schlepping, you’re carrying things each day, each day. It’s a batch of logistics. But 25% is glamorous. There are moments wherever you’re like, “Wow, these spaces that I’m successful are really insane, and I’m truthful grateful to beryllium here.” But the 75% is not amusive oregon pretty. A batch of radical don’t cognize that erstwhile they get in, and they tally from it truly quickly. I bash it due to the fact that I emotion it and I’m inspired by it. It’s thing I’ve wanted to bash my full life, and I tin attest to it with the magnitude of Teen Vogues successful my closet successful my puerility bedroom.