Raquel Allegra

Raquel Allegra recently turned 50. “I feel like I am where I’m supposed to be at this time in my life,” she said from her studio in California. “I’m not wistful, I don’t think I should be doing something else or being somewhere else. I feel…

The Raquel Allegra appointment began with poetry. “I start most of my collections by writing a poem,” she explained via Zoom from her studio in California. This season’s poem ended with the following: “We indulge the natural curves of our…

Raquel Allegra’s pre-fall collection began with “We Float,” a song by the British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. The lyrics, “We float/take life as it comes,” suddenly made sense to her as she was on her way to work one day. “I’m a multi-note…

“Yes, I grew up in Berkley, I’m a hippie at heart,” Raquel Allegra says, by way of justifying the inspiration for her spring collection. Zooming in from her studio in California, she asks, “I don’t know if anyone in the room there has had…

When Raquel Allegra began working on her resort collection earlier this year, she wasn’t quite sure what the concept would be. Inspiration struck while she was looking through cards of yarn with one of her suppliers. “All the beautiful…

Over the past two years of the pandemic, Raquel Allegra’s well-established signatures have served her well. Always balancing an innate feel for comfort with a kaleidoscopic color palette that manages to be at once earthy and electric—as…

Raquel Allegra takes pride in making seriously casual, comfortable fashion: tie-dyed T-shirts, flowing jersey dresses, sweats and joggers hand-washed to buttery softness. She’s a believer in the “magical powers” of comfort, the way a…