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In high school, Madalyn Nault crafted and sewed in her spare time. Eventually, she started making her own purses. “My friends would say, ‘Oh, I want a purse, too.’ And so then I just kind of started playing around with all these ideas that came into my head, and I just had to bring them to life,” Nault says. She turned her hobby into a business, which she’s run from her Phoenix home for more...

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“I’m really excited to put a face to my business,” says Madalyn Nault of Madalyn Nault Accessories. For her, Best Fest is a chance to have fun and let loose after being featured in PHOENIX magazine year after year. What can attendees expect from you at Best Fest? I’m bringing purses, wallets and various accessories. They are all made by me. They are fun designs and unique prints. What are you most looking forward to...

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“The biggest challenges through this pandemic have been shifting from in-person events to online sales and adjusting to a new way of sourcing materials,” says Madalyn Nault, a Phoenix designer who creates wallets and clutches using vinyl and upcycled fabric under her Madalyn Nault Accessories label. This spring, she reluctantly added a new product: face masks. “I found myself dwelling on the fact that if a skill I had was needed in an emergency, then...