september 9, 2025
fall 25 - tukki
For Fall ’25, we take you on a journey home through TUKKI, a Wolof word meaning “travel.” This collection is born from childhood weekend drives between Dakar and the Senegalese countryside, rituals of departure and return that became a lifelong source of memory and imagination. Leaving behind the city’s coastal vibrance, the road wound through Thiès, Bandia, and Somone, each stop offering a palette of colors and textures: terracotta roads dusting the horizon, emerald palms swaying against the sky, golden sunsets melting into deep burgundy markets, and neutral sands shimmering by the ocean. These landscapes imprinted themselves on the soul, later re-emerging as the heart of this collection.
EXPLORE THE COLLECTION
TUKKI is about the rhythm of going and returning, carrying the countryside back into the city, where heritage and modernity coexist. This duality unfolds in the campaign, photographed inside a serene Dakar villa. With its whitewashed walls, tiled steps, and wrought-iron balconies, the villa becomes both setting and metaphor; a bridge between worlds. Just as journeys carried the earth tones of Bandia or the vibrancy of M’Bour into Dakar, here those same palettes meet polished architecture, reframing memory through sculptural lines and quiet courtyards. The villa is not just a backdrop but a sanctuary, a reminder that travel is as much about returning as it is about leaving.
The collection itself mirrors this dialogue. Terracotta and amber recall clay roads and the golden light of Somone sunsets, while deep burgundy carries the vitality of bustling markets and city nights. Emerald greens embody the resilience of palms and countryside foliage, and grounded neutrals anchor the journey in sandy soils and tiled courtyards. Fabrics alternate between prints and solids, each texture evoking a map of travel: marbled silks flowing like erosion patterns and ocean tides, botanical shapes echoing flora seen roadside, and tactile solids resembling terrains themselves. These surfaces invite touch, grounding memory in material form and making each garment feel like a fragment of the road carried home.
Prints unfold like cartographies of experience. The Ayel and Aura marbled swirls mirror geological memory and shifting skies, while the Zeph Teal stripes stretch like long roads, rhythmic and mathematical. The Toya Teal botanical motifs honor the resilience of countryside flora, blooming against all odds. Together, they create a visual atlas of travel, a record of paths taken and emotions carried.
Silhouettes embody DIARRABLU’s ethos of effortless versatility that can transform into striking drama. The flowing Naim kaftans and one-shoulder Satu gowns move with the ease of ocean breezes, designed for freedom. Lala wrap dresses and draped Umy jumpsuits shift seamlessly from countryside ease to city polish, while Mailys and Tubi pieces feature convertible elements like shawls and modular sleeves that adapt with movement. Volume and sculptural sleeves in the Maya dress and cut-out details in the Dalia and Amal gowns introduce cinematic dimension, like light and shadow playing across villa courtyards. In each piece, simplicity evolves into statement, a duality that lies at the very core of DIARRABLU’s DNA.
For Diarra Bousso, TUKKI is deeply personal, it’s a meditation on leaving and returning, on how every journey imprints itself into color, form, and texture. It is about carrying the countryside into the city and carrying the city into the world. Unveiled for Fall 2025, TUKKI transcends the calendar to stand as a timeless philosophy: that travel is not only the act of moving through space, but the art of collecting fragments such as the hues of a road at dusk, the feel of a stone step beneath the foot orthe rhythm of a market square and transforming them into garments that speak to memory and belonging.
TUKKI is for the woman in motion, rooted in heritage yet open to horizons, who finds home not in one place but everywhere she journeys.