New York Fashion Week: Who is Ashlyn So, and how did the 12-year-old designer get to NYFW?
The young Asian-American designer’s first time at New York Fashion Week was when she was just 9 years old in 2017
Do you remember the crazy ambitions you had when you were 12 years old? How many of those dreams actually came to fruition? For child prodigy Ashlyn So, those aspirations became a reality.
The San Francisco native was one of the youngest Asian-American designers to join New York Fashion Week from February 4-12 and present a collection she designed on her own. It was the second time Ashlyn had presented at New York Fashion Week; the first was in 2017. The couture collection followed a theme called “Shapes in Space”, and presented 15 looks in total.
“I didn’t want to do a traditional fashion show. So to create a sense of wonder and surprise, I added something at the beginning of the show,” Ashlyn says about her second show.
“We asked for the whole room to be dark, then four models came out and threw giant balloons internally lit by LED lights into the audience.”
Among the audience members was the most recent Project Runway champion Kentaro Kameyama, who presented his collection on the same day at the Art Hearts Fashion show.
A thrilled Ashlyn said: “I couldn’t believe I actually met him. His clothes are very avant garde and he is a very artistic person.”
