Meet Yoon Ahn: Dior jewellery designer and all-around visionary

‘Men’s jewellery has never been this focused at the house’, says Korean-American designer

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In 2003, director and screenwriter Sofia Coppola chose Tokyo’s Shibuya distruct as a setting for her feature film Lost in Translation. Coppola’s storyline follows Charlotte, played by Scarlett Johansson, as she leaves her eyrie at Park Hyatt Tokyo to explore the city. In Shibuya, the newlywed navigates hectic crowds, passing colourful billboards and towering LED screens, overlooked by a giant, ambling dinosaur projected onto the glass-fronted façade of an office block.

“I have thought about moving out of Shibuya, but I like that this place keeps me on my toes,” says Yoon Ahn. The Korean-American co-founder of independent brand Ambush and jewellery designer for Dior has lived in close proximity to the four-way crosswalk for the past 14 years. Since September 2016, Shibuya has also been home to the first Ambush flagship boutique, which takes up more than 1,500sq-ft of the label’s concrete-built headquarters on Cat Street. “I have been in the eye of the storm ever since,” says the platinum blonde of living and working in the area. “I love the constant flux.”

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