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Lisa Shahno (, Лиза Шахно; born October 28th, 1985) is a Russian visual artist and fashion designer.

Childhood
Shahno family has Polish roots, although Lisa's parents - Natalia Shahno (Наталья Шахно) and Valery Farafonow (Валерий Фарафонов) are originaly from Siberia. Lisa Shahno was born in Kemerovo, but shortly after her mother had returned to the soviet military base in Torgau in DDR, where Lisa Shahno's father worked.

Young designer
In 2009 Lisa Shahno has presented her first small A/W collection "Squaring the Square", which has obtained the grand-prize at "Kremlin Stars" fashion contest. Retrieved 22 February 2011. held in Moscow and later won the Avantgarde Designer award at Createurope in Berlin the same year.

Geometry-based cut
Lisa Shahno doesn't use the traditional cut and pattern-making, based more or less on the alteration of a garment shape to the shape of a human body, including classical cut hooks such as a tuck. All of her pieces are based just on simple geometry, with no curved lines. This method is entirely alternate to the usual principles of pattern making. Such way of pattern-making is close to folk clothes designs, which were based on the similar principles that made clothes making comparatively easy and allowed to save fabric, by using almost all the surface, leaving not much little межлекальные выпады.