Tales

It’s quite sweltering right now in Kuwait.  So hot that you just want to avoid any outdoor activity. And all I can think of is jumping in a cold blue ocean.  Not our beautiful Arabian Gulf, [...]

As Ramadan has come in the midst of summer this year, it makes it easy to wear caftans on these warm nights.  There’s something both easy and glamorous about a caftan.  Slipping on one immediately [...]

Growing up I was obsessed with old movies, not black and white movies, but technicolor movies. The bright saturated colors drew me in. The colors used in our latest collection “Twist Me Dip Me Dye [...]

Hawaii has always had its appeal.  Sunshine, surf, tropical fruits, and hula dancers.   Who wouldn’t want to spend time there?  What makes the place more appealing is the images from the 1950s of the [...]

Scarabs had symbolic sacred meanings to the Ancient Egyptians.  They became extremely popular in the early Middle Kingdom (2000BCE).  The symbol moved to the Mediterranean and Middle East in the Bronze Age.  What made scarab’s have [...]

Who doesn’t love the smell when walking into a lush flower shop?  Imagine working with flowers.  That would be a dream, the smells, and the colors.  When I stumbled on these images of flower sellers [...]

It is that time of the year when summer is just around the corner, and all I can think of is a vacation on a Mediterranean beach.  The photographs of Georges Dambier are also adding to this [...]

Henri Matisse wanted to see divers.  One summer day in 1952 he and his assistant went to their favorite pool in Cannes.  The result of his sketches from that day transformed his dining room in [...]

Over the new year holidays, I was lucky enough to fly to New Orleans, and I was seduced and mesmerized by the city.  You can hear music all the time and it is filled with amazing antique [...]

If it’s one thing we have in common in the ecru office, it’s the love of old movies.  Since Halloween is around the corner, I cannot help but get the urge to binge-watch my favorite Hitchcock [...]