The brand
A house for the between.
Watany is an Arabic word. The closest English is my home, but it carries more. Belonging. Identity. The people who made you and the place that did. A word for everything you keep, wherever you go.
The brand began with a simple, complicated experience: growing up between countries. In the country that became home, you're not quite from here. In the country you came from, you've been gone too long. You become a translator between two halves of yourself.
Watany is the wardrobe of that in-between. Pieces rooted in the culture we come from, cut for the lives we live now. A celebration of where we're from, of who we became, and of the act of carrying home with you, wherever you go.
A share of every piece funds the Watany Foundation. We started small. The horizon is bigger.
Heritage.
Prints, calligraphy, weight, detail. Carried forward, not put behind glass.
Craft.
Made in small runs, with cloth that wears easy and lasts. The opposite of a season-and-gone.
Give back.
A share of every order funds the Watany Foundation. Meals first; schools and supplies on the horizon.
The cloth
Made by people we know.
Small runs, considered cloth, real makers. Watany works with workshops and ateliers that take the time we want, pieces built to last past a season, and to feel right the moment you put them on.