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Ashlynn Park always knew that she wanted to her run her own brand. “I had that dream from the beginning,” the designer tells ELLE. However, like many other creatives, she had to cut her teeth working under other names first. The Seoul native completed her masters program at Bunka Fashion College in Japan before going on to work for some of the world’s most esteemed designers, including Yohji Yamamoto and Raf Simons during his tenure at Calvin Klein , eventually settling in New York as her home base. In 2020, Park founded her eponymous label, Ashlyn, quickly gaining numerous accolades which included garments acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a nomination for the CFDA’s 2025 Emerging American Designer of the Year Award (past recipients include Henry Zankov and E

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