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 ...
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, ...
Shabby Chic, the brand that taught the nation to love all things flea-markety, is shutting down. Run by British transplant Rachel Ashwell, Shabby Chic spent 20 years pushing adorably worn-in furniture ...
6 at Spring St.; N, R at Prince St. "Shabby chic" may be part of the everyday style lexicon, but before 1989, the phrase simply didn’t exist—until Brit-born, LA-based interior decorator Rachel Ashwell ...