WHY BOOK ASTA?
Asta brings much more than fashion advice to the stage.
She combines decades of hands-on design experience with personal storytelling, practical education, humor, audience participation, and a genuine belief that clothing should support the person wearing it.
WHEN YOU BOOK ASTA, YOUR AUDIENCE RECEIVES:
- Real industry experience:Almost three decades working directly with brides, celebrities, speakers, professionals, and private clients.
- International fashion insight:Experience connected with Paris Fashion Week and the Cannes and Venice film festival red carpets.
- Practical guidance:Advice people can apply immediately to their wardrobes, personal image, careers, weddings, and special occasions.
- A planet-conscious message:Inspiration to buy more thoughtfully, restyle creatively, repair beautifully, and waste less.
- An inclusive approach:Style guidance based on the individual—not their age, size, title, budget, or passing trends.
- A powerful transformation:Audiences begin to see clothing as a tool for confidence, communication, and self-expression.
- An engaging experience:Talks can include live styling, garment transformations, audience demonstrations, and interactive exercises.
- A memorable personal story:Asta’s journey from arriving in Ireland with only €200 to becoming an internationally recognized designer brings courage, emotion, and inspiration to every stage.
SIGNATURE SPEAKING TOPICS
- Your Image Speaks Before You Do
Before you introduce yourself, your image has already communicated something.
In this talk, Asta explores how clothing, colour, fit, proportion, grooming, and personal presence influence the way we are perceived. Audiences discover how to create an image that reflects who they truly are and supports where they want to go.
Ideal for:
- Business conferences
- Women’s networks
- Corporate teams
- Leadership events
- Speakers and entrepreneurs
- Personal-development events
- Stop Buying. Start Restyling.
Many wardrobes are full—but still feel as if they contain nothing to wear.
Asta challenges the belief that style requires constant shopping. She inspires audiences to rediscover, restyle, alter, combine, and transform the clothes they already own.
This talk demonstrates how creativity can reduce clothing waste while saving money and developing a more individual style.
Ideal for:
- Sustainability conferences
- Environmental events
- Fashion and retail events
- Community organisations
- Schools and colleges
- Creative workshops
- Women’s events

- Fashion With a Conscience
Looking beautiful and looking after our planet should not be opposites.
Asta explores how individual choices can help create a more responsible relationship with fashion—from choosing quality over quantity to repairing, rewearing, restyling, and supporting local craftsmanship.
This is an inspiring and accessible conversation about sustainability without judgment, guilt, or complicated rules.
- From Invisible to Unforgettable
The right image does not hide you. It introduces you.
Created for speakers, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders, this keynote shows how to align personal style with a professional message.
Asta explains how to choose clothing for the stage, camera, networking events, media appearances, brand photography, and important business meetings—so your audience remembers your message for the right reasons.
- The Bride Beyond the Dress
Choosing a wedding dress is not only about lace, shape, or fashion. It is about identity, emotion, expectations, and the way a woman wants to feel when she steps into a new chapter of her life.
Drawing on decades of bridal experience, Asta guides brides through the emotional and practical journey of finding—or creating—a dress that feels true to them.
Topics can include:
- Dressing for your individual body shape
- Separating your own wishes from outside opinions
- Choosing comfort without sacrificing beauty
- Creating harmony across the bridal party
- Styling the mother of the bride or groom
- Coordinating bridesmaids without losing their individuality
- Alterations, restyling, and transforming family or vintage gowns
- Avoiding expensive bridal-fashion mistakes
- One Wedding, Many Personalities
A bride is not dressing only herself. She may also be thinking about the groom, bridesmaids, mothers, family traditions, photographs, colours, and the overall atmosphere of the wedding.
Asta teaches couples and bridal parties how to create a coordinated visual story without making everyone look identical.
Perfect for:
- Wedding exhibitions
- Bridal boutiques
- Wedding planners
- Destination-wedding events
- Bridal retreats
- Hotel wedding showcases
- Red-Carpet Confidence
What makes a person look unforgettable on the red carpet, stage, or at an important celebration?
Asta takes audiences behind the scenes of special-occasion and celebrity styling. She explores design, movement, proportion, photography, confidence, and the details that can transform a beautiful outfit into a complete visual statement.
Ideal for fashion events, creative-industry conferences, award ceremonies, media events, and luxury experiences.
- Wear Your Story
Our wardrobes hold memories, emotions, old identities, and versions of ourselves we may have outgrown.
In this more personal and inspirational keynote, Asta helps audiences understand the connection between clothing and self-worth. She encourages people to stop hiding, release limiting rules, and use fashion to express the person they are becoming.
BRIDAL AND SPECIAL-OCCASION EXPERTISE
Asta can speak, teach, or provide consultations for:
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Brides and brides-to-be
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Grooms
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Bridesmaids and bridal parties
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Mothers of the bride and groom
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Wedding planners and coordinators
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Bridal boutiques and alteration specialists
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Wedding fairs and hotel showcases
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Red-carpet guests
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Award nominees and presenters
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Speakers and performers
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Celebrities and public figures
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Business leaders and corporate teams
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Anyone preparing for an important personal or professional occasion
BOOKABLE FORMATS
Asta is available for:
- Keynote speeches
- Conferences and summits
- Corporate workshops
- Fashion and sustainability panels
- Wedding exhibitions
- Bridal master classes
- Live styling demonstrations
- Restyling and up cycling workshops
- Podcast and media interviews
- Television and radio appearances
- Fashion-show commentary
- Brand activations
- Retreats and women’s events
- Online webinars and virtual workshops
- Bespoke styling experiences
Every presentation can be tailored to the audience, event theme, industry, and desired outcome.
Asta Jakubson
International Fashion Designer, Image Consultant, Bridal Expert & Planet-Conscious Fashion Advocate
BOOK ASTA JAKUBSON TO SPEAK
Fashion Is More Than What We Wear. It Is How We Express Who We Are.
Asta Jakubson is an award-winning international fashion designer, image consultant, stylist, bridal expert, author, and advocate for restyling and planet-conscious fashion.
As a third-generation dressmaker with almost three decades of experience, Asta has taken her designs from her studio in Ireland to Paris Fashion Week and the red carpets of Cannes and Venice. She has dressed brides, business leaders, speakers, celebrities, and international personalities—helping each person create an image that feels authentic, powerful, and unforgettable.
But Asta does not simply talk about what is fashionable.
She reveals how clothing affects confidence, communication, identity, professional success, and the way others respond to us—often before we have spoken a single word.
Her message is simple:
You do not need more clothes. You need to understand the power of the clothes you already own.
Through inspiring keynotes, practical workshops, panel discussions, fashion events, and interactive styling experiences, Asta teaches audiences how to:
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Express their personality through clothing
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Build a powerful and authentic personal image
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Restyle and reimagine the clothes they already own
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Make more conscious fashion choices
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Dress confidently for business, speaking, weddings, and special occasions
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Choose clothing that complements their body shape and individuality
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Create a memorable first impression without pretending to be someone else
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Understand the difference between following fashion and owning their personal style
Asta Jakubson is a third-generation fashion designer, award-winning entrepreneur, stylist, image consultant, bridal expert, author, and international speaker.
She established Asta Fashions in Ireland and built her career through craftsmanship, determination, and a deep understanding of how clothing can change the way a person feels.
Her work has been associated with Paris Fashion Week and the Cannes and Venice film festivals. She has created bridal wear, occasion wear, red-carpet fashion, millinery, bespoke designs, and a custom headpiece for royalty.
Asta’s recognitions include the Style Awards, Fashion Business All-Star accreditation, Best in Retail, Best Global Fashion Designer, and Best Female Entrepreneur.
She is also the author of 5 Tips on How to Pick the Perfect Wedding Dress for Your Body Shape, sharing the practical knowledge she has gained from helping women of many different shapes, ages, personalities, and backgrounds.
Today, Asta uses her voice to inspire people to see fashion differently—not as pressure to become someone else, but as permission to reveal who they already are.
THE RESULT FOR YOUR AUDIENCE
After hearing Asta speaks, audiences will feel inspired to:
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Look at their wardrobes with fresh eyes
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Understand what genuinely suits them
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Make more confident clothing decisions
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Reduce unnecessary fashion purchases
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Experiment with restyling and alterations
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Create a personal or professional image with intention
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Prepare more confidently for weddings and special occasions
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Stop hiding behind clothing that no longer represents them
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Use fashion as a form of creativity, confidence, and self-respect
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Stuart's Cheung
CEO/ Entrepreneur
Here today just at Tribe Beyond Borders. I was the MC for today’s event and I have to say I was super impressed by Asta Jakubson. She’s what an amazing woman. What an woman session she had of empowerment, of embracing, of raising courage, of raising vibration And it was a breakthrough uh session where people actually you know, they’d have these, you know, barriers, that hold them back. And she’s bursting all these balloons and each one ....
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Remus
Business Entrepreneur
Like few words to Asta. Its a beautiful place, beautiful event and a wonderful meeting. I woluld love to say that this is so much energy that's just touch me so much. That's why I wanted to talk to this woman and what i came up with ideas of what i have after conversation and the small coach session. I have some a good piece of advice on what to do next and a few insights on my personal mishaps and calamties and at the same time what I love about it is that this....
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Dr. Adeniyi Olarewaju
Lecturer & Programme Director
Maynooth University Business School
I love your presentation because it was new. It was refreshing. I love the fact that you tapped into your personality, your sperit to tell your story. It was also very unique because you came with ballons, I think about five or six, and you were popping the ballon with each fear people were talking about. And for me, that really is the epitome of how fact speaches should go. I loved also the fact that you were able to connect with the audiance ....
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Katrin's Vankrause
Entrepreneur
So i would like to say a couple of words about Asta and her speaches at today's event. It was beyond inspiring and explaining about all our doubts , all our fears and the most important what should we do with them and how we should embarace them and go along so they work to our power rather than to our weaknesses. So, it was extremelly powerfull. It was very inspiring....