Multi-Award Winning Fashion Designer & PhD Researcher in Wearable Technology & Emotional Wellbeing

A woman with short dark hair and makeup wearing a shiny silver jacket, holding a vintage cassette player with a fur-lined gray coat.
A woman with blonde hair sitting on a gray sofa, wearing a pink blazer over a black turtleneck, gold earrings, a gold necklace, and a pin of a black bunny on her blazer, smiling at the camera. Portrait of Ashley Raynor.

About

Multi-award-winning fashion designer and researcher with over a decade of international industry experience. My work has been featured in more than 100 global publications — including Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, i-D, and Cosmopolitan — and has appeared in TV shows, feature films, and digital collaborations with brands such as Amazon Prime and Nintendo.

Recognised as one of Swatch On’s Top 20 Global Emerging Designers (selected from a pool of over 100,000 applicants) and having presented a solo show at New York Fashion Week 2019, my career has evolved from high-end fashion design to an interdisciplinary focus on wearable technology and emotional wellbeing.

I currently lead an award-winning children’s fashion company while collaborating globally as a freelance designer for private fashion houses. Alongside this, I am pursuing a PhD at De Montfort University, exploring smart textiles embedded with biometric sensors to support emotional regulation and anxiety management through real-time biofeedback.

My goal is to bridge the gap between fashion, science, and mental health, developing garments that not only express identity but also enhance wellbeing in daily life.

Three young people in a bright studio with a white brick wall. One woman is seated, wearing a large beige and black patterned puffy coat and a crown. A man stands behind her, wearing an open top with chains. Another person with curly hair is seated on the floor in a white outfit, leaning on the woman, with an intense expression.

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