Ashlynn Park comes to fashion through a deep interest in the relationship between form and structure. Trained as a designer and master pattern maker, her practice is rooted in the integration of both, demonstrating with this approach, one can design anything. Educated at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and later at Bunka Graduate University in Tokyo, she developed a rigorous technical foundation that approaches clothing not as surface, but as spatial and emotional form.

Her career spans nearly two decades across Asia and the United States. Formative years at Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo, where she worked as a menswear designer and creative pattern maker, instilled a devotion to precision, reduction, and conceptual clarity. Seeking a less austere, more intimate expression of fashion, Park moved to New York in 2011, where her mastery of deconstructed form quickly garnered attention.

She went on to contribute to runway collections and special pieces for artists and musicians at Alexander Wang, Khaite and Proenza Schouler. In 2018, she became part of the Calvin Klein 205W39NYC studio under Raf Simons, serving as Senior Pattern Maker for Men’s Ready-to-Wear alongside Pieter Mulier and Matthieu Blazy. These years further refined a design language grounded in structure, restraint, and emotional clarity.

Founded in 2020, ASHLYN is the culmination of Park’s dual fluency in tailoring and draping. Her collections explore an architectural yet intimate relationship between garment and body, where clothing becomes a vessel for movement, memory, and inner strength. Through her Puzzle Theory and zero-waste construction methods, interlocking pattern pieces sculpt the silhouette while minimizing material waste, embedding sustainability directly into technique rather than surface gesture.

The Korea of her childhood subtly informs her work: the soft curves of traditional moon jars, the organic geometry of persimmons, and a restrained, monochromatic palette translate into silhouettes that adapt to the body with quiet strength. Surgically precise cuts unfold into ruffles, pleats, and fluid drapery, crafted from Japanese and Italian fabrics and produced in New York, where every detail serves both function and feeling.