APRIL 23, 2026
Raquel Chevremont x DIARRABLU: AMOR
inspired by heavenly seas
DECEMBER 2024
It started with a message.
In December 2024, I was in New York, showing DIARRABLU in a small showroom for the first time. It was new, unfamiliar, and honestly a little intimidating. I reached out to a few women I admired, hoping someone might come by and just… see what I was building. Raquel came.
She walked in with her dog Puma, warm, open, and curious. We spoke about art, culture, heritage. It wasn’t transactional. It was immediate. We connected.
I remember thinking: there is something here.
EXPLORE THE COLLECTION
What followed was a conversation rooted in love and a desire to tell a beautiful story.
We stayed in touch. Shared ideas. Images. References from our travels. One day, she sent me photographs of flowers her partner had given her: flowers that were already dying.But the way she captured them… they felt alive. Like paintings.
We turned them into art.
Those flowers became four pieces: Amor, Elle, Dorada, Castle Hill.
Painted, reinterpreted, layered with color. Soft pinks, deep blacks, golds: tones that moved between our worlds.
When I looked at them, I saw something familiar.
They reminded me of the tie-dye techniques I grew up around in Senegal, the way fabric is transformed, imperfect, alive.
But this is where our worlds truly merged.
Her flowers remained organic, expressive, intuitive.
My process infused creative mathematics.
We mapped each print onto the body using mathematical systems, scaling dresses along the x–y coordinate plane, placing motifs with variables so they land at the right point on the body, and transforming them through geometry so they move with the garment.
This is our alchemy.
What started as a dying flower became something intentional, engineered, and alive again, not just as a painting, but as a garment designed to fit and flow perfectly.
JUNE 2025
In June 2025, we met again, this time with my mother.
We sat together over lunch in New York. They spoke about craft, about women, about building something with your hands and your heart. My mother shared what it means to manage artisans in Senegal. Raquel shared her story.
It was one of those rare moments where everything aligns: culture, family, purpose.
SEPTEMBER 2025
By September, the story deepened.
Raquel took me back to where she grew up: the Bronx. We walked through her neighborhood, visited her high school, listened to her memories.
She showed me her world.
I shared mine.
We brought family photos. We spoke about dressing up, about pride, about how in Senegal, when someone compliments you, you say “right?”, because celebrating each other is part of who we are.
That day, we laid the fabrics on the floor like tapestries.
We were inside the art.
From there, the work became even more real. I saw her world, I shared mine. We felt even more connected.
We designed silhouettes. Built the collection. Balanced vacation ease with event dressing and made sure every piece felt both effortless and intentional.
In December 2025, we showed the collection in New York market, exactly a year after we first met. It felt like a full circle moment.
It was picked up by Shopbop and will also be available on Nordstrom. Several Boutiques across the country said yes.
All our beautiful feelings, history and colors will be in so many closets.
APRIL 2026
Then in April 2026, we went to the Hamptons.
To her home.
We shot the campaign surrounded by her world: her furniture, her energy, her jewelry. She styled it all. It didn’t feel like a shoot. It felt like living inside the collection.There’s a moment I’ll never forget.
At the end of the shoot, my mother called from Senegal to pray for us and bless the collection.
At the end she said: ‘Racquel I miss you, I am so excited for you’ and we all looked at each other with a smile.
It was quiet. Sacred. Full circle again.
This collection is called AMOR.
Because that’s what it is.
Love between people.
Love between cultures.
Love between art and craft.
Love between math and magic.
Love between where we come from and where we are going.
This is the beginning of something we will never forget!