Marco Storm Braskov

BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear

www.marcostormbraskov.com www.linkedin.com/in/marcostormbraskov www.lcffirstmove.co.uk/graduates/9930 mail@marcostormbraskov.com T: +44 (0) 7564151737 Third year BA Menswear student at London College of Fashion with prior study background in Drawing, Graphical Design and Tailoring. Through menswear internships and have worked as a manager and buyer for a high-end fashion store. I utilize these approaches to the fashion industry, combined with my distorted but yet clean aesthetics, to create interesting and contemporary menswear garments with a customer in mind, appreciating quality with effortless and individual style. Employment History Pattern Cutting Intern TOPSHOP TOPMAN May 2013 – June 2013 (2 months) London, UK Work Placement in the TOPMAN Pattern Room Preparing patterns for production, pattern alterations, Cutting fabrics for Topman Design SS14 10/2012 (3 Days), London, UK Design Consultant, Co-Creation workshop with Butterfly London Design development, Brand building, Customer profiling, Product design. 05/2011 – 09/2011, Copenhagen, Denmark Design Assistant, Nagpeople, Nag Skin Collection, Part-time Worked together with CEO and founder to create a high-end leather collection. My areas of work involved the design process, working drawings, Spec sheets, toile reviews, dialogue with production, sourcing of fabrics in Europe, development of marketing, press release and a fashion film for the brand. 09/2010 – 04/2011, London, UK Design assistant, Asger Juel Larsen, Part-time Assisting during production and development of AW11: From toiling, pattern cutting, fitting, making and material research to setting up presentation documents in Illustrator and Photoshop for collaborations. During his shows at Vauxhall Fashion Scout for LFW. AW11, SS12 and AW12. 09/2010 – 10/2010, London, UK Design Intern, Bolongaro Trevor, Part-time Working in different areas of design, mainly pattern cutting. Arranging stock sale events. Researching new production methods. 05/2010 – 06/2010, Copenhagen, Denmark Storemade Designer for Weekday CPH, Part-time. Storemade design project, sold at Weekday (Vestergade) in Copenhagen. Consisted of 6 handmade t-shirts and 7 pairs of redesigned Levi’s jeans launched at an event at the store 06/2009 – 08/2009, Bergen, Norway Internship for the KEA Design/Business School. Design assistant, Siv Støldal, Full-time Creative planning and execution of LA exhibition, Project White T-shirt. Research, plan and design clothing for Norways Contemporary Dance company, Carte Blanche’s, new performance, WHEN CLARITY VISITS. Product development for Gjerdet Kulturminnegard. Planning and hands on realizing the concept for the Shhhhhhhh .../Store in Bergen. 02/2007 – 08/2007, Copenhagen, Denmark Store Manager & Co-buyer, Nag, Full-time Manager and co-buyer for the fashion clothing store Nag and international salesman for their own brand Nagpeople. Running the shop, developing the shop trainee. Representing and selling their brand at the CPH fashion fair “Gallery Cph”, for 2 seasons. Education 09/2011 – 06/2014 (expected) London College of Fashion, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear Concept, industry, CAD/CAM, fabric research, design, illustration, drawing, photography, pattern cutting, sewing, layout and cultural studies with an emphasis on fashion. 08/2008 – 06/2010 KEA Design/Business, 2-Year AP Degree, Fashion This gave me knowledge an overview of the complete design process from initial ideas and design to purchasing, production, marketing and sales. Independent design planning, organization, realization within textile, clothing and design 02/2008 – 05/2008 Copenhagen Technical College, Short Course, Graphic Media 05/2008 – 09/2008 TEC Frederiksberg, Short Course, Tailoring 06/2006 – 12/2006 Copenhagen Technical College Short Course, Drawing and illustration Painting, Coal drawing, Live drawing, Setting up an exhibition 08/2002 - 06/2005 Silkeborg Amtsgymnasium Gymnasium Qualifications (High School) Modules: A-levels: English, Mathematics, History and Danish. B-levels: German, Spanish, Psychology… Languages Danish (Native or bilingual proficiency) English (Full professional proficiency) German, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish (Limited working proficiency) IT Experienced user in: MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Bridge Basic Knowledge in: CAD/Cam, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects. Business Trend analysis & forecasting Brand building Market awareness Social Medias Event coordination Customer Profiling Technical Skills Accurate Pattern cutting Industrial Sewing 3d Garment Design and Draping Excellent Technical Drawing skills (In Illustrator) Specialist Machinery Design Realisation & Illustration References available on request