Broadway State of Mind | Costume Design internship in New York

Broadway, New York and the bright lights of a big city was the destination for Polimoda student Asta Bertelsen. Having gained an internship on Broadway in a design studio, Asta was thrilled to take the skills she learnt during her course to a wider and more fast-paced context.

Her journey began in Florence, where she had signed up to do a short course in Costume Design with mentor Lorin Latarro in the summer of 2023, giving up her job in her native Copenhagen to explore something that had always intrigued her, “Working as a character artist before, I wanted to move into another direction (…) The costume design course looked exciting.”

She specifically chose Polimoda because “It seemed to me that everything would be just a huge experience. I would go to Florence and live there for a month, I would do and learn and be creative (…) as well as getting feedback from people in the business. I knew I wouldn’t have found anything like that in Denmark.”

Costume Design student
Asta Bertelsen

Special thanks to
CEGO Custom Shirtmaker
Pacific Trimming & Buttons
Manhattan Wardrobe Supplu
OTB Brooklyn, NY

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