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HEALING, ART, QUALITY & BEAUTY
Heirloom Fashion for the Modern Woman
Ashaki creations speak of beauty as power, wearable art that holds resilience, strength, and the language of becoming. Each garment is handcrafted with heirloom sewing techniques and intricate embroidery, shaped with body-aware design that honors both comfort and presence. Details invite play, spark discovery, and mindfully ground you in the present.
Ashaki honors the modern women who carry, create, and dream. Women who turn art into celebration, healing into beauty, and visibility into joy.
Heirloom Craftsmanship
Traditional hand-sewing and embroidery techniques passed through generations, our garments feature handmade special details.
ADJUSTABLE FEATURES
Thoughtful tailoring that honors your shape – including petite-aware fits and carefully designed coverups makes any one of our looks modest without compromising on style
Generationally slow fashion
At Ashaki, slow fashion means a lifetime and beyond. Our garments are made to be worn, repaired, and lived in, with free repairs always. When a piece has fully lived, we offer a replacement at 70 percent off, honoring legacy.
“Beauty is devotion,
a steady flame.
It does not decorate,
it delivers us.”
CEO & FOUNDER
ABOUT FATEMA
Fatema is an artist, poet, and writer whose path spans medicine, media, technology, and executive coaching. Born in Bangladesh, raised in the UK, and now living in the United States, she carries her global story into a life increasingly devoted to service. She studied Podiatric Medicine at University College London, founded a Bollywood magazine, wrote about Silicon Valley’s technology world, and guided visionary executives as a coach. Through each transformation, painting and poetry remained her quiet companions, sustaining her with beauty and deepening her sense of what she could contribute.
Her community work brings together creative vision, practical care, and a determination to create tangible, lasting change that people find useful in their everyday lives. She supports children’s education, the arts, and humanitarian relief in the United States, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Gaza. Through Ashaki’s Gifting Program, she offers her creations and direct financial support to creatives and people in want, with a commitment to grow the program as Ashaki becomes profitable. In San Francisco, she is prototyping a monumental community artwork—a sculpture and gathering place for art, music, learning, and connection—with the intention of bringing the model to other places. She is also working to share the tools, knowledge, and learnings emerging in San Francisco with communities across California. Her advocacy for broadly shared benefits from AI, including an AI Citizens’ Dividend, grows from the same conviction: progress should translate into meaningful tangible improvements in individual lives.
What unifies her work is an unwavering belief in beauty as a transformative force. She credits beauty with holding, healing, and liberating her through adversity, allowing her to soar like a bird through life’s thunderstorms. That experience guides her ambition: to turn what has sustained her into something that can sustain others.
Through Ashaki, she gives this purpose a living expression, bringing art, community, and service together to create possibilities whose value is felt personally and endures over time.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER
ABOUT LILY
Lily has been singularly focused since she was a young girl, admiring Manhattan from across the George Washington Bridge. Getting fashion magazines as a treat at the grocery store and doodling sketches of dresses in the margins of her notebooks, she knew she was going to be a fashion designer in New York City. Encouraged by her family to embrace her passion, she set her sights on attending the Fashion Institute of Technology, which she ultimately did, obtaining a BFA in Fashion Design before quickly moving to Brooklyn and starting a decade-long career designing for luxury fashion brands.
When asked why she wanted to be a fashion designer, Lily consistently answers, “I want to help women feel beautiful.” She holds a fundamental belief in the power of clothing to change how one moves through the world, a belief encouraged by her dad, who preached the value of looking good to feel good, knowing the influence it could wield. A power to make you stand taller, express a feeling, convey dignity, or instill confidence. That beauty is a source of strength.
Lily has been driven by this belief, the need to create, and a desire for beauty, which led her to Fatema and Ashaki. It is her sincerest hope that through these pieces, the customer can embody that power for herself.
STYLED & SHARED
