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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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...

Coveting: Missguided Clothing

I’ve stumbled on a bit of a gem here. Can’t believe I’d never heard of Missguided before but they’re clothes are my new favourite love. Think a mix of Motel and New Look, with a very tasty pricetag. The current collection is growing all the time, and they’ve got some great dresses and some really...

Coveting: Lace Cycling Shorts

Not entirely sure how behind I am on this microtrend. I’ve wanted cycling shorts in sheer or lace for about 6 months now and didn’t actually know they existed – I always get things in my head that I’ve clearly seen in highfashion ads/catwalk, forgotten about, and it’s resurfaced somewhere thinking I’ve invented it. It...