She was raised between Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa) and Silver Spring, Maryland (US).
In order to gain further experience in fashion, she then moved to New York City, where she interned for designers Jill Stuart, Yigal Azrouël and Cynthia Rowley.
In February 2015, Solange Knowles featured her in the Black Designer Spotlight series with ten other independent artists.
The singer Beyoncé (sister of Solange Knowles) wears one of her creations in the clip for her title Formation (on the album Lemonade).
[2][3][4] She handles traditional but also original shapes, and plays with colors, reflecting her cosmopolitan journey, and in particular of this Brazil where she was born, from the New York of these beginnings, and West Africa.