The roots of GLOBAL CIRCLER™ go back more than a century, to the distant shores of Gujarat, India.

Sometime between 1910 and 1920, my great-grandfather, a young man of maybe 25 boarded a small open dhow bound for East Africa, leaving his pregnant wife behind. He took the voyage to seek a better life for his family to be.

He never arrived.

The ocean took him, and no photograph of him survives.

Yet, his impulse lives on.

Decades later my grandfather chose to make the same crossing to Kenya with his own growing family.

My parents, raised in Kenya, eventually crossed another ocean to London seeking their own better life.

I was born into that diaspora, a child with Indian Kenyan roots growing up in fashionable London.

As an adult I began my own journey, from London to Marbella to Valencia to Germany, and most recently, Lisbon.

In Lisbon, surrounded by a new generation of location-independent professionals, I recognised a familiar energy. I saw the same restless drive that has propelled my family for four generations.

In 2024, I visited Gujarat to close the loop, standing for the first time where our family journey began over a century ago.

I realised that the "Global Citizen" or nomadic person isn't a modern invention. It is an ancestral inheritance.

We have always moved. We have always sought opportunity beyond the visible horizon.

We have each left things and people behind and taken risks in the pursuit of something different, something better perhaps.

The difference today is how we move.

We need equipment that understands the journey. We need sanctuary in transit.

I founded GLOBAL CIRCLER™ to engineer clothes that fit my international lifestyle. Clothes that help me stand a little taller, feel great in and love the more I wear them.

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Umesh Dhanji

Founder & Creative Director