Ashley Lloyd is an artist and designer whose early practice centered on avant-garde millinery. Her sculptural headdresses—often drawing from botanical forms, marine life, and natural textures—were conceived as wearable objects that blurred the line between fashion and conceptual art. Each piece was handmade, one-of-a-kind, and developed through a slow, intuitive process rooted in material exploration and close collaboration with the wearer.

Lloyd’s work appeared in fashion presentations and editorial contexts, and was noted for its restraint, craftsmanship, and non-commercial sensibility. As author and writer Lesley M.M. Blume observed, the pieces “blur the lines between fashion and conceptual art,” emphasizing rarity, intention, and presence over trend.

Lloyd has since shifted her creative practice from millinery to gardens and landscape design. Through Lloyd Landwright, her one-woman landscape studio and consulting arborist practice based in Kitsap County, Washington, she continues to work with the same attention to craft, site specificity, and lived experience.

This site remains as an archive of her earlier fashion work.