Fall 2021 Haute Couture: Ashi Studio celebrates its Muse

What is a muse to a couturier? For Ashi Studio, she is these women of legend, the ones whose names become woven into the very fabric of a house. “In our work, finding her is a process. With the clarify afforded by the echo-chamber emptiness of the moment, our gaze turned inwards – to the history of couture, to our own history – looking for the source of inspiration.” So what is a muse exactly?

To a couturier, she is not just an aesthetic companion, but a fully incarnated person, someone with whom dialog sparks and continues, season after season, spilling over gowns and sketches. When comes the collection, the muse becomes both inspiration and a mirror. Worn by the muse, creations come alive. Ashi’s muse is Georgina Grenville.