Kalam Journal

I’ve always dreamt of going on a safari and getting to look at all the majestic African wildlife. This dream has lead me on an obsessive search of safari lodges. Located in isolated rural areas, [...]

We have a thing for Malian portrait photographers. Last year our fascination was Malick Sidibe’s shots, and this year Seydou Keita influenced noon for ecru’s look book. Kieta started taking pictures at 14 years old [...]

A while back Nur sent me beautiful aerial images of Botswana Savannah taken by Zack Seckler. It was at the beginning of the research for our upcoming collection, inspired by Africa. When doing a collection [...]

I’ve seen Cecil Beaton’s images often. Every time I come across them it feels as I’ve just stumbled across them. Recently I’ve been thinking quite a lot about Beaton’s images, specifically the ones he took [...]

It’s finally Christmas and the festivities have already begun. Nostalgia creeps in this time of the year, especially to a time of beautiful Christmas illustrations. Magazines from the 1920s and 1930s had illustrated covers for [...]

Glitz, glamour, and a club filled with palms! That was the Coconut Grove Club of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angles. In its heyday, from the 1920s to the 1960s, it was frequented by Hollywood’s [...]

Sometimes finding an image can completely uplift your mood. That’s what happened to me when I recently discovered Robert Capa’s unpublished colored photography. Robert is known as the “quintessential photojournalist”. He would photograph both in [...]

I’ve visited many places that have enchanted me, and it’s a great feeling falling in love with a location. Last week it happened to me all over again when I visited Capri. Everything about this [...]

“A house like me” is the description Curzio Malaparte used to describe the house he built for himself, with the help of Adolfo Amitrano, on a remote cliff in Capri. Cruzio decided to build Casa [...]

Sometimes not only do we want to escape to a faraway exotic destination, but we want to time travel to a specific time in that particular place. That’s how we feel about Rio. Don’t get [...]