Yoon Ahn
Meet the designer who made Tokyo her home, then took the city’s grunge-chic aesthetic to Dior—and the world.
“Everything in life is always preparing me for something bigger,” says the designer Yoon Ahn, tying back her mermaid-length champagne-blond hair, and settling into a chair after wrapping up a morning photo shoot. She has just flown back home to Tokyo from a family trip to Honolulu—a rare vacation in a calendar that keeps the 41-year-old travelling the world. Along with her commitments to Ambush—her phenomenon of a streetwear brand—she has countless collaborations and a post since last year as Dior Homme’s jewelry designer. To the highly determined Ahn, achievements stack like a ladder that can then be climbed.
Born in Korea, raised in the Seattle suburbs and a graduate of Boston University, Ahn moved to Tokyo in 2003 with the rapper Verbal (real name Young-Kee Yu), her futur...
