Clearly, Avignone was in good company – but she’s no stranger to celebrity hangs, having been photographed with several of the world’s most famous at events over the years.

Here’s what we know about her.

Ashley Avignone studied fashion in Los Angeles

Ashley already had a knack for fashion from a young age. The LA-born, Arizona-raised fashionista told the blog Neely and Chloe that she started designing clothes when she was just four years old. Later, she studied at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and graduated in 2006, per Elle Australia.

“I went to school for fashion design when celebrity styling was first getting a name,” she noted in a 2016 interview with School of Doodle. “I started seeing that and thought I could do that, I can pick outfits out for people, I’ve been doing it for my friends for years.”

She’s a stylist and designer

Avignone is clearly a talented stylist. Per Elle, after she scored a role in season three of The Rachel Zoe Project in 2012, she quickly got representation with the talent agency The Wall Group. “I was extremely lucky in finding representation right away. You have to believe in yourself, but it also helps when others believe in you too,” she told Simply in 2013.

“Two weeks after graduation, I started assisting one of the top celebrity stylists in LA and it just stuck with me,” she said in her interview with Neely and Chloe. “After years of assisting various stylists, I ventured out on my own. As I mentioned I don’t do so much red carpet work, I now focus more on the brand side.”

She has plenty of A-list pals

She’s been friends with Taylor Swift for over 15 years

In December 2019, Avignone took to Instagram to post a sweet tribute to her friend on her birthday. “30 years of life for you, 11 years of friendship for us,” she wrote, tagging Swift. “Thanks for being the bestest friend, listener, dance party-starter, story teller, haircut enthusiast, with the biggest, warmest, and most generous heart.”

“Love you to pieces,” she added. Four years on, and their friendship is clearly still going strong.

How did Taylor Swift and Ashley Avignone meet?

According to People, Swift and Avignone met through their mutual friend, the Academy Award-winning actress Emma Stone. The magazine states that the two were just teenagers when they first crossed paths and have stayed close ever since.

In fact that very same dynamic trio – Swift, Stone and Avignone – attended the premiere of Easy A together in 2010, and they were spotted together again in 2011 supporting Stone at the 2011 Vanity Fair Oscars party, per People.