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ome fashion designers want to talk
to you about the Michelin-starred
caviar restaurant they just tried, or
the vacation destination that has a yearlong
guest backlog—you know, the one they just
jetted back from? Yoon Ahn wants to talk
about robotics. “Those guys, Boston Dynam-
ics, that build robots?” she says, as if that
will elicit some glimmer of recognition from
me, her far-from-robot-fluent interlocutor.
“I’ve been obsessing over them. They were
trying to build this robot with new technol-
ogies, but I guess it wasn’t working out. So
they went back to nature, and they started
implementing things they were finding in
insects and animals.” For Ahn, it represented
a realization that technology has its limits.
“It made me think, ‘All the answers that we
need already exist on this planet, right? The
more technology that’s developed—how are
we going to make it more human?’”S
FUTURE
PERFECT
With her buzzy line, Ambush,
and a slew of collaborations,
Yoon Ahn is bridging the
worlds of fashion, music, and
science. By Véronique HylandMODEL: CASPER SEJERSEN.