In December 2018, Stymest signed a record deal with Interscope Records North America and Universal International with his first EP set to be released in 2019. In April 2019, he signed with a Malaysian artist agency Rocketfuel Entertainment who will be handling his music career in the Asian region.

Stymest next starred opposite Hafsia Herzi, in a French independent film Sex Doll (Amoureux Solitaires), directed by Sylvie Verheyde. The film was released in December 2016.

In 2015, Stymest signed with modeling agency The Lions NY. He was next managed by production and management company for directors, writers, actors and comedians Anonymous Content as well as by the Curtis Brown Group. Later on, Stymest discovered model Simone “Slick Wood” Thompson and helped launch her fashion career.

Stymest married model Maille Doyle in 2011. They have one daughter together. They divorced in 2013.

From 2010 to 2011, Stymest presented a show on MTV UK called MTV Bang. Stymest started playing music since he was 12 and he was a member of the group of Mannequins, but later founded his own band Bones, where he played the drums. He also started to write music for other artists. In 2011, Stymest recorded an album with his band. In 2014, Stymest was featured in the Korean girl group, 2NE1’s music video, “Gotta Be You”.

Stymest was brought up in Coney Hall. He attended first Charles Darwin School, and then Ravens Wood School, in London Borough of Bromley. His modeling career started after being recruited by Hedi Slimane in 2008. He was scouted while skateboarding through the streets of Camden when he was seventeen. That same year, he was photographed by Slimane for the cover of Japanese Vogue Hommes, his first appearance on a magazine cover.

Ashley Stymest (born 31 July 1991), better known by Ash Stymest, is an English male model, actor and musician.