You enter her world at a picket gate that leads to sandy wooden steps, through neatly pinched geraniums, and climb to her seaside cottage with a clear ocean view. It is all perfect–a sparkling day, ...

A serene exploration of the Shabby Chic founder’s cottage-style retreat, filled with vintage charm, pastel palettes, and timeless English countryside elegance.

For Rachel Ashwell, founder of the Shabby Chic empire, a new home on the Malibu coast serves as a reminder that perhaps the tide is turning. In the last two years, she closed 15 stores, filed for ...

Based in London, with stores in Santa Monica, New York City, Tokyo, and San Francisco, Rachel Ashwell is best known for creating and coining the decorating style "shabby chic." But many don't know ...

Even if you don’t know the term Shabby Chic,* there’s a good chance you know the look: extra-plush bedding with slightly rumpled ruffles, teeny-tiny floral prints and vintage furniture, often ...

Designer Rachel Ashwell, the creator of the Shabby Chic brand, has sold her Malibu cottage for $3.55 million. The one-story home, behind the gates of Malibu Colony, has limestone flooring, a master ...

Empire Rebuilding Rachel Ashwell built a powerful retail brand. Then she lost it all.. Misha Gravenor Rachel Ashwell was a single mother when she opened her first Shabby Chic boutique in Santa Monica, ...

Carol Turner had a 20-year career as a high-powered pharmeceutical saleswoman. But at heart, she was always a romantic. “I love soft colors, roses, ruffles, beads, chandeliers. I love the romance of ...