10/2006-07/2008: MA in Fashion Menswear, Royal College of Art, Fashion and Textiles Department, London, United Kingdom
03/2001-07/2006: Diploma, Fashion, Textile, and Costume de
Design Studies at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Design Department, Germany
10/2000-02/2001: Art History studies at the University of Passau, Germany

09/2009 - at present: Fashion Designer - design assistant to the creative director for Antonio Marras Donna / Kenzo Homme, Antonio Marras, Kenzo, Sardegna, Italy
11/2008 - 07/2009 Freelance Fashion Designer - Design of Menswear capsule collections, patternmaking, fabric sourcing, Alter&Kiss, Budapest, Hungary

07/2009: shortlisted for Crateurope, Berlin, Germany
03/2009: finalist at Fashion Weekend, Bruxelles, Belgium
10/2008: Baltic Fashion Awards, Germany
05/2007 - 04/2008: Wilhelm-Lorch-Stiftung, full time scholarsip
10/2006 - 09/2007: DAAD full time scholarship for master degree studies at the Royal College of Art, London, UK
09/2005: "Karriere Young Fashion Award", IGEDO Company
Dusseldorf, Germany
12/2004: "Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode" Paris, France

ITS#FIVE: University of Applied Science- Hamburg
ITS#SEVEN: Royal College of Art

Fashion project presented at ITS#SEVEN

Fashion project presented at ITS#FIVE

10/2006 - 01/2007: Studio Assistant and Creative Patternmaker, Alexander McQueen (Menswear line), London, UK
07-10/2003: Collection development, pattern making, Sibilla Pavenstedt, Hamburg, Germany
07-09/2002: Tailoring couture and ready to wear clothes, Gabriele Blachnik, Munich, Germany

05/2007: Textilwirtschaft, Monthly Fashion Business Magazine, Germany
08/2006: Focus ( Nr. 33 ), Bi-Monthly News Magazine, Germany
02/2006: Elle Plus CPD special issue, Germany
10/2005: Karriere, Monthly Job and Economic Magazine, Germany

03/2009: awarded 3rd price for graduation collection by SDBI (German Fashion Industry Foundation), FASH 2009 - "New Diversity"
10/2008: Winner of Pret a Porter section "Baltic Fashion Awards" Germany
09/2005: First place awarded at the "Karriere Young Fashion Award", IGEDO Company Dusseldorf, Germany
12/2004: awarded " Prix d'Incitation " at the " Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode" Paris, France

01/2010: selected for "Cutting Edge" showroon at "Modefabriek" trade fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
06/2009 - 01/2010: exhibition of Master Graduate Collection in the Viktoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
08-09/2007: Exhibition of Diplom - Collection, Museum of Applied Art, Hamburg, Germany
02/2006: Presentation of pre-Diplom - Collection , CPM, Collection Premiere Moscow, Russia
01/2006: Presentation of pre-Diplom - Collection, CPD, Collection Premiere Dusseldorf, Germany
07-08/2005: Assistance at the Pentiment Academy, digital textile print, Hamburg, Germany

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