Rachel is an illustrator, designer, blogger and trend hunter. This is her online portfolio and blog, with musings on illustration, design, fashion, advertising, branding, marketing, music, cakey-bakey goodness, culture and all things cool.
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Trends: ‘Collage’ T-shirts

More of a microtrend really, but I’m spotting these everywhere and am quite intrigued by it. When I say ‘collage’ I mean part of the design being sewn/appliqued on top of the design, not just printed entirely. It’s commonly bows but I’m seeing leather patches for hats etc being used as well. Lanvin for H&M...

Coveting: Everything by Lanvin for H&M

Designer/High Street collaborations are quite rife these days, so much so that it’s not as big a deal as it used to be. H&M often lead the way (Sonia Rykiel for H&M was my most recent favourite) but of course you’ve got Debenhams with their Henry Holland and Julien McDonald collabs, among others. So when...

AW Trends: Yumi

As I said in a previous post about Yumi and our AW lookbook, I promised I’d post the trend boards for this season. Mainly because I curated and designed them! So these should be up in my Portfolio soon – I need to make a ‘Graphic Design’ subsection. I can’t publicicse most of the work...

In Search Of…. The Perfect Satchel Bag

This A/W, a key trend will definitely be the Satchel Bag. Why? The Mulberry Alexa, obviously. Everyone wants a piece of that, but most can only afford the high street versions and all their incantations. Everyone wants in. And I really want in. I lug a lot of stuff around with me so I’ve invariably...