Varying the folds of the same basic shape, Isabel created a series of jellyfish blouses . The exploration and development of a shape to its fullest potential is a characteristic of Toledo's work. She believes in the incubation of ideas to full term, refusing to launch designs that suggest questions but do not deliver viable answers. Her care and thought for every piece is seen in the zigzag dress , in which a single piece of fluid georgette is folded and suspended in a continuous wave-like pattern. As folds progressively cover one another, transparency evolves to opacity.
Diagonal outlines suggest motion and the dress actually allows it.
Charmed by such pieces, and by Toledo's unique take on Cuban culture, the choreographer Twyla Tharp asked her to design garments for the contemporary Cuban dance piece Yemawa Yenaya .