About
Shiho Moriya
Shiho Moriya is a Tokyo-based designer working at the intersection of fashion, sculpture, and material engineering. The practice treats the handbag, and eventually the wider wardrobe, as an open question rather than a fixed category: what a fashion object can become once it’s freed from the assumptions of traditional craft.
Every piece is developed through a framework called Form Study, a method for translating drawn silhouette into engineered, wearable structure. OCTAVE, the first object released under this framework, is built to hold its shape as an actual, wearable accessory, not just a display piece.
About
Form Study
Form Study sits at the intersection of digital sculpture, material behavior, and wearable fit. It is an ongoing method for building objects that do not yet have a category of their own.
Data and drawing sit at the center of the process. Every curve, wall thickness, and load point is resolved digitally before a single physical piece is made. Each object functions less like a finished product and more like a single resolved form, pulled out of many possible ones.
Working this way means a design can be tested, broken, and rebuilt entirely within the digital model before it is ever produced physically, removing much of the guesswork and waste of traditional prototyping.
Excellent form is no longer limited by what is easy to pattern or mold. Almost anything becomes possible, provided it can hold its own structure.
Form Study is not built around a single object. It is a system, built for radical shapes, rapid iteration, and total design freedom, made to expand across handbags, accessories, and eventually garments.
