Prague, Czech Republic
FASHION, FOOTWEAR and ACCESSORIES DESIGN
All footwear and clothes prototypes in my portfolio have been hand-made by myself.
Antonin Simon
Date of birth: 10th May 1988
E-mail: antonin.simon.simon@gmail.com
Address: Prague, Czech Republic
Education
2008 - present Academy of arts, architecture and design Prague, Fashion and shoes design studio, head of the studio Libena Rochova, www.vsup.cz
2004 - 2008 Secondary school of aplied art Uherske Hradiste, Shoe and accesories design studio, Leaving examination in Shoes, bags and accessoires technology, History of arts,the Czech language, the English language, realised collection of shoes and handbags and accessoires www.supsuh.cz
2003 - 2004 Commercial College, department of economy
2002 preparation course of sculpture and plastic arts under the leadership of Marta Milevska and Frantisek Borovec
Work experience
2010 internship at Raf Simons for collection fall/winter 2010 ( 6 month) www.rafsimons.com
2010 implementation of a prototype for the Czech commercial brand Pietro Filipi-www.pietro filipi.com
2009 internship at Jakub Polanka for collection fall/winter 2010 (shoes) and spring/summer 2011 (clothes and shoes), www.jakubpolanka.com
2006-2008 worked as women's shoe designer for polish shoe company Carinii
Participations, presentations, contests
2011 - Winner of Project SIMPLY for SIMPLE for a collection of accessories, for the realization of the Prague boutique SIMPLE Concept Store
september 2009, participant at the fashion show (dresses) in New York during New York fashion week held by Czech center in New York
march 2009, Change clothes, change climate fashion show (dresses), project held by British council
2008 - presentation of bag at the exhibition "New Goods" in Stockholm
2008 - participation (bag) at "Czech National Design", Prague
2008 - 1st place in contest "LINEAPELLE YOUNG DESIGNER CONTEST", Bologna, Italy, category shoe design,
2008 – participation in final round of "APLF Design a bag competition", Hongkong China, 2 categories, variable bag and shoe and accessory
2007-participant in fair contest "LAPIZ DE ORO", Spain
2006-parcipation in fair contest " APLF LINEAPELLE Bologna“, Italy
2006-1st place contest "Fun Shoe" Czech Republic
2005-3rd place contest "Fun Shoe" (category painted shoe design)
Press
Elle, Dolce Vita, Harper´s Bazzar, Style, Grazia (Germany) ,Glanc, Kissmet (Great Britain), www.invogue.cz , www.unnouveauideal.typepad.com
Language Skills
Czech – mother tongue, Slovak – bilingual, English – fluent, Polish – basic,
Computer Skills
Certificate for Footwear CAD, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, Rhino 3D, MS office( Word, Excel, Power point),Computer literate, the Internet