Shopwork Magazine Issue #1: Martan is a 400-page manual-meets-magazine that puts ten complete MARTAN garment patterns — folded and life-size — directly into the reader's hands, alongside editorial photography and in-depth interviews with the label's creative directors.
About This Book
Shopwork Magazine launches with a focus on MARTAN, structured around a model that collapses the distance between fashion publication and making manual. Three modules work together: editorial content featuring interpretations by stylists and photographers, step-by-step construction guides, and full-size pattern sheets ready for immediate use. Interviews with MARTAN Creative Directors Diek and Douwe ground the technical content in creative intention. For the DIY fashion designer — whether newly curious or already practised — this issue treats garment construction as both craft and conceptual act, making it a serious resource for anyone interested in independent fashion design and pattern-making at a professional level.
Key Features
- 400 pages of editorial photography, step-by-step construction manuals, and life-size folded pattern sheets
- Founded and directed by Anke Hofstra; graphically designed by Johanna Himmelsbach
- 10 complete MARTAN designs with full construction guides
- Interviews with MARTAN Creative Directors Diek and Douwe
- Published by Shopwork Magazine, ISBN 9789090417998
What You'll Discover
- How MARTAN's design language is constructed — from concept through to finished garment — via direct access to the label's own pattern and making methodology
- Editorial interpretations from renowned stylists and photographers that contextualise each design within a broader visual and cultural register
- The intersection of fashion publishing and technical instruction, where the magazine itself becomes a tool for making
- A modular publication format — editorial, manual, and pattern — designed to be used as much as read
About the Author
Anke Hofstra is the founder and director of Shopwork Magazine. Johanna Himmelsbach is responsible for the magazine's graphic design. Together they have developed a publication format that integrates fashion editorial with hands-on garment construction resources.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- Dimensions: 240 × 300 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789090417998
- Publisher: Shopwork Magazine
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: DIY fashion designers, patternmakers, fashion students, and anyone with a serious interest in independent garment construction and contemporary designer fashion.