Master of Design in Fashion, Body, and Garment

Fashion

Lifestyle

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Streetwear

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Creative & Design

Berthold Marckwardt is a designer, a visual linguist, that seeks to inject a breath into the construct of his surroundings. Creating a space that allows for margins, in order to develop a freshness- a permutation. 



Adaptable, he is able to successfully navigate the ever-osculating boundaries of the explicit freedoms of personal endeavors to the more formal constraints of a communal environment, seeking the best way to innovate.  Working across mediums, Berthold sees fashion, installation, video, sculpture, and writing as kissing cousins.  He is able to see connections between these mediums, exploring them in ways that reincorporates them back into the social consciousness through the lens of his macerated pop culture tinged mind.



Berthold is focused on identity, place, categorization and their inevitable breakdown.  He is interested in the connections of imagery and ideas without an explicit appeasing commentary explaining the linkage. 



Transitions are fake.  He works in fracture. Exploring the I in me, in him, in you, in we.



Berthold Marckwardt has a Master of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

-Establish corporealities of connections that exist within my mind through extensive research and experimentation.  

-Generate outcomes in garments, video, installations, sculptural objects, writing, and performative acts.

-Examine and reconstruct materials and forms.

-Evaluate and redefine constructed corporealities into new forms.

-Source materials and techniques.

-Learn, expand, and evolve the making matrix.

-Created Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 flats, technical detail sketches, and assisted illustrating artwork placements.

-Organized and maintained Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 fiches.

-Ensured timely delivery of technical drawings to our Japanese factory.

-Collaborated and assisted in the development of technical drawings of shoe designs for a private client.

Assistant- Design Studio

-Complete technical development ownership of Sleepwear brands Apostrophe and Jaclyn Smith.

-Assisted with the development of Joe Boxer Sleepwear.

-Led fittings with fit model and design team.

-Upheld design vision through the translation of design into product.

-Maintained vital communication pathways with oversea factories.

 -Developed tech packs in WebPDM, including specs, technical sketches, and hanging/folding instructions.

-Organized and oversaw tracking charts to ensure proactive workflow of samples.

-Upheld and preserved department fit standards.

Technical Designer

-Overhauled and reprogrammed division tech packs with enhanced features previously not being used for a smoother workflow and development of line.

-Created design and technical packages for both domestic and oversea factories.

-Arranged and co-led fitting for both men’s and women’s.

-Oversaw regular casting for back up fit models.

-Assisted in all areas of design.

-Managed tracking, organizing, and distributing samples to sales, PR, and internal divisions.

- In charged of assisting factories, patternmaker, sales teams, and model agencies.

Assistant Designer/Product Development

-Assisted and directly supported Senior Technical Designer in all functions from initial spec development through to successful CTL safety testing completion.

-Managed tracking and organizing fit samples from 1st fit to Preproduction.

-In charge of private label accounts such as CK baby, Bealls, and Sears.

-Created tech packs in PDM and GUI.

-Analyzed and commented on fit and construction of samples.

Assistant Technical Designer

-Prepared packages for vendors
-Sourced hardware
-Maintained lines of communication with factories
-Helped in custom silk screening of samples
-Made sure PR, press, and others had samples that were reuested

Design Assistant

Mentorship

-Maintained Pattern Library
-Pattern Corrections
-Assisted Pattern makers 

Work Placement

-Helped prepared production packets
-Light pattern drafting
-General studio Assistant

Short Term Internship

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Berthold Marckwardt

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago