Shape Shape 2: Sewing for Minimalist Style
<div><p>Shake up your wardrobe! Create 19 unique fashion forward garments with simple sewing techniques.</p><p>Graphic designer turned fashion designer Natsuno Hiraiwa returns with patterns and instructions for 19 innovative women's garments and accessories in classic minimalist Japanese style.</p><p>Many of her signature vests, collars, and shrugs are cut from a single flat piece of cloth, then ingeniously draped and fastened around the body. Other pieces are artfully twisted and folded like origami, giving a unique shape to the resulting blouses, tops, and skirts. All her designs create the striking silhouettes that epitomize her fashion collections and result in one-of-a-kind garments suitable for all ages.</p><p>These pieces are uniquely constructed in a Japanese style but modified for the more Western figure with the pattern grading and sizing adjusted accordingly.</p><p>Sewists will be fascinated by the novel minimalism of <i>Shape Shape 2</i>.</p></div>