ABOUT RACHEL EMILY
Rachel Emily is the designer-maker behind Rachel Emily Knitwear. Graduated from MA Fashion Knitwear and BA Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University. Rachel Emily’s textile background gives her an interest in creating innovative fabrics, playing with structure, texture and colour to create exciting fabrics. She enjoys paying attention to detail and creating high-quality designs which the customer will love for a long time.
Rachel Emily is expanded her skills through her MA where she is improved her CAD skills, she is now proficient in Shima, Stoll and Clo 3D, and her pattern cutting and garment design skills. She enjoys the technical side of knitwear and believes that an in-depth knowledge of how machines such as Stoll and Shima work allows her to be a more innovative designer.
SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability is a fundamental part of all of Rachel Emily’s designs. Her dissertation explored Emotional Durability and how to design clothes which customers will keep for a long time in order to reduce waste. Her BA final collection built on what was learnt through dissertation research and used colour psychology to create designs that would produce a positive emotion in the wearer creating emotional durability and encouraging them to keep their clothes longer. Rachel Emily's MA project explored how to design sustainable clothes which appeal to the current consumer. It aimed to create a sustainable collection which is also visually exciting, as she often finds that sustainable garments lack the fun of fast fashion so are not appealing to the current consumer. She is focused on the post-covid consumer and designed a collection of elevated loungewear which meets their desires to be both comfortable and fashionable.