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Yoon Ahn's Magic Touch: The Designer Talks Her Start at Bape and Building the Ambush Empire

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It may look like Yoon Ahn is busier than ever. She’s fresh off her first sneaker drop, an April release of an Air Max 180 that was part of the Nike X AMBUSH ® Collection, a whole-body set of products that included clothing and a herringbone necklace. That was on the heels of a separate collab (a kimono and jersey) with the sneaker giant for the FIFA Women’s World Cup. There have been high-profile launches with Beats by Dre and Rimowa , as well as a partnership with Amazon, ahead of Tokyo fashion week. And, of course, since her 2018 appointment as jewelry designer for Dior Men , the Elle s and Vogue s of the world have been profiling her as a face of streetwear’s infiltration of the legendary houses. As her enviably followed IG account (with likes from Naomi Campbell and Rih) attests, the strawberry-haired, 42-year-old designer’s eye is the imprimatur for women’s streetwear worldwide. Yoon Ahn’s touch is all over everything dope right now.…

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