CREATING WITH SHAPES
Cos
2017
EDITOR
Usha Doshi has worked with COS since it launched in the UK in 2007, having spent the previous twenty years teaching pattern-cutting at the Royal College of Art. Her skill in engineering fabric has played a significant part in realizing COS’s reductive but detailed signature style. Having encouraged her grandchildren to play with fabric, Doshi observed how they cut geometric shapes and effortlessly created intricate folds, drapes and pleats without the use of complex darts, seams, or excessive fabric. In part a manual, in part a concept intended to inspire creativity across all disciplines, Creating with Shapes expands, explores and records the possibilities of this technique in a series of experiments set over seven chapters, each presenting a shape – square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, circle, oval and octagon.
Usha Doshi has worked with COS since it launched in the UK in 2007, having spent the previous twenty years teaching pattern-cutting at the Royal College of Art. Her skill in engineering fabric has played a significant part in realizing COS’s reductive but detailed signature style. Having encouraged her grandchildren to play with fabric, Doshi observed how they cut geometric shapes and effortlessly created intricate folds, drapes and pleats without the use of complex darts, seams, or excessive fabric. In part a manual, in part a concept intended to inspire creativity across all disciplines, Creating with Shapes expands, explores and records the possibilities of this technique in a series of experiments set over seven chapters, each presenting a shape – square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, circle, oval and octagon.