On Tuesday, Sept 20, sophomore and clothing entrepreneur Namgyal Nepali woke up with a great idea. Gathering up clothing from his line, a clothing rack and stickers with his line’s logo, Nepali decided to set up shop in Red Square during the Info Fair. Things were going successfully until he got kicked out and moved over to Old Main. He was able to sell $130 worth of product in three hours.
“I contacted him, and I was like, ‘Let’s do this, let’s start a clothing brand.’”
Namgyal Nepali
The family sold the factory when they followed Nepali’s father to America in 2001, settling in Vancouver, Washington.
“I had to bus tables every day just to have enough money to make the hats and shirts. I wanted to keep everything affordable and deliver a quality piece.”
Namgyal Nepali
Recently, Nepali got two State of Bliss hats into Standard Goods, a clothing store on Capitol Hill. Nepali also got State of Bliss into Compound Gallery, a store in Portland, Oregon.
“I’ll see a lot of people flipping designs, and either just copying or sticking with trends like really long tee shirts or dad caps,” he said. “Dad caps really blew up, you know—everyone was making them because it was something that everybody could do.”