Creative and design studio

Brands aren't launched. They're built.

Over time. Over years. Over decades. We build the ones the world remembers, from India, at the crossroads of design, culture, and sustainability.

X Possibilities. One Partner.

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The studio, in motion.

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New reels every week from the studio floor, shoots, and launches across our brands.

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Who we are

X Studios is built on one belief: the next brands the world falls for will come from India. We take makers and build them into names people believe in, work that is felt, remembered, and respected.

One partner, from the first idea to the finished campaign.
X Studios & Fashion Labs.

30

Years in fashion

4

Continents

8

Services

1

Partner, end to end

 From the journal

There has never been a better time to build a global fashion brand
from India.

The manifesto

Capabilities

Eight ways we help you build.

01

Creative direction and strategy

The idea that holds everything together, and the plan to make it real.

02

Brand consulting

Positioning, naming, and identity for brands finding their place in the world.

03

Fashion design

Collections and products, designed by people who know how they are made.

04

Photography and visual direction

The look of a brand, shot and art directed in house.

05

Content creation

Campaigns, social, and editorial that sound like you and travel well.

06

Activations and events

Moments in the real world that people remember and talk about.

07

Launch Pad

A complete launch programme for a brand starting from nothing.

08

The Fashion Lab

Design to finished garment, made in Tiruppur, with no minimum order.

Two ways in

You already make

You have product. We give it a name.

You have factories, quality, and craft. We turn it into a brand the world can recognise, with a story, an identity, and a place in the market.

You are starting from an idea

You have a vision. We help you build it.
You have a feeling and nothing made yet. We shape it into a brand, end to end, from the first sketch to the day you launch.

Recent

A few projects we are currently working on.

Lawrence & Mayo Boutique

Founded 1877, building the next hundred years.

Heritage

Tarrit

A menswear house, built from a notebook of first principles.

Menswear

UNmoda

The world’s first streetwear built for women.

Label

What we believe

Fashion can be built responsibly, or it should not be built at all.

Sustainability is a condition of the work, not a campaign we run once a year. It sits inside every brief, from the materials we recommend to the lifespan of what we make.

What we believe

Fashion can be built responsibly, or it should not be built at all.

Sustainability is a condition of the work, not a campaign we run once a year. It sits inside every brief, from the materials we recommend to the lifespan of what we make.

Clients and partners

“We work close to where fashion is actually made: the material, the supply chain, the people. That is an advantage no studio in London or Sydney can borrow. “

X Studios, on how we work

The founder

He is not here to prove anything. He is here to make things possible.

Kal Kalim spends his days on four questions: the future of branding, the future of content, the future of design, and the future of humanity in fashion. They are not themes he thinks about. They are the work. He comes at them the long way, thirty years, four continents, more than a hundred projects, and nearly every part of the craft done with his own hands: designed, shot, written, built. He believes India is not the world’s factory but its next great design voice. That belief is why X Studios works from Tiruppur.

Kal Kalim

Founder and Creative Director

The founder

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