Around the Corner
One might see Idli— founded by a French interior and fashion designer named Thierry Journo, a member of the city’s significant European expat community, who worked with both Thierry Mugler and Andrée Putman—as a celebration of all things color: The women’s shop is dominated by a raspberry-pink silk sofa; the men’s, acid-green and marigold-yellow silk lanterns shaped like neoclassical vases. Journo has designed all of these, along with the textiles (cushions, bedding, and fabric by the meter) and clothes (lightweight silk dresses for women, button-downs for men), each of which is made locally.