“Our work is quite different to other studios, as we do not start from the sketch but choose to move the hands. These hands combine the emotions and skills,” Ashlyn’s Ashlynn Park said following her strong fall 2026 runway show.
Her first outing after winning both the 2025 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund and the Emerging Designer of the Year award at the CFDA Awards upheld the sense of conceptual ease she’s excelled in, with a through line of balancing the tension between restraint and release she was after. Furthermore, the South Korean native said fall was about exploring the vernacular of what is common and shared, including the American one.
“I found the American vernacular quite special — how all different people bring their own culture to here in the United States and how a very interesting way of their art usually comes up from the ordinary, like objects of common life. I kind of align to that idea, a philosopher’s idea, with my collection,” she said.
Park explained that her closing look — a monastic, sculptural white wool silk taffeta open-back gown — was developed through her study of shape before silhouette, finding the beauty in pinching the garment’s backside just-so together during a fitting.
This balance continued in constructions guided by her strong pattern making and tailoring background, as seen through black basque cashmere or tweed jackets, one infused with an electric green hue, that softened down the body atop airy wool silk knit turtlenecks with ruffled hems and ultra-drop crotch luxe jersey bottoms.
For the ultimate winter white moment, there was a snowy bouclé coat with cocoon-shaped sleeves atop a curly wool fringe knit maxiskirt, alongside raw-edged, sleek tailoring that spoke to everyday chic. Strong examples of the new organic layering she’s building into the enticing Ashlyn-coded brand language.
