To encounter JODI is to step into a kaleidoscope of India’s visual imagination — unrestrained, democratic, and deeply alive.
Founded by Karuna Laungani and Gauri Verma, the label began as a quiet rebellion against the greyscale of fast fashion. Their intention was simple yet radical: to let colour, pattern, and slow intention reclaim their rightful place in our wardrobes.
Our first meeting with JODI in 2019 felt less like a discovery and more like recognition. Here was a label that understood what we hold dear at Canvas & Weaves — that clothing is not merely sewn, it is felt. That true sustainability begins long before production and long after purchase. And that beauty has a responsibility: to honour people, places, and the planet.
JODI’s vocabulary is instantly recognisable.
Hand block–printed textiles become canvases of unexpected geometry; colours flirt and converse rather than simply match; silhouettes carry an ease that mirrors the modern woman’s rhythm. There is a certain audacity to their aesthetic — not loud, but liberated. Not trendy, but timeless in its cultural fidelity.
What we admire most is how JODI protects the spontaneity of creation. Each print begins with hand-drawn ideas and evolves through collaboration, intuition, and a reverence for the human touch. This is clothing with a pulse — pieces that travel effortlessly from Singapore’s urban landscape to sunlit holidays, always telling a story far larger than themselves.
JODI reminds us that fashion can be joyful without being careless, rooted without being nostalgic, global without losing its centre.
And that, to us, is the very soul of contemporary Indian design.
