Overview
Fashion Designer Jobs in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark at Tekla
Title: Fashion Designer
Company: Tekla
Location: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Purpose of the role
We are looking for a Fashion Designer to shape Tekla’s clothing line. Our core is textiles. Everything we make begins with the material: how it is woven, how it holds colour, how it wears over years rather than seasons. The clothing line is how that work extends into a wider product universe, and we are growing it carefully. A garment enters the range when the design earns its place, not to fill a gap.
Reporting to the Head of Product, you will work within the product team, under the direction and vision of our Creative Director and founder. This is a role for an ambitious designer who arrives with ideas of their own, and who wants to carry a garment the whole way, from first sketch to the finished piece.
Key responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
Design and collection development
- Design two collections each year, fall-winter and spring-summer, covering both womenswear and menswear, from research and concept through to approved samples.
- Own the research and direction for each season, and hold that direction through the whole collection rather than only the opening idea.
- Develop silhouette, proportion, colour, and material so that the clothing reflects the distinctive Tekla aesthetic.
- Work with the textile team on fabric development, using our own cloth wherever it serves the garment and sourcing outside it where that is the better answer.
- Produce design boards, drawings, and technical work that give the product and production teams something unambiguous to build from.
- Design footwear alongside the clothing, sharing references and direction so that the two read as one collection.
Direction
- Research materials, references, and market context, and come back with a considered position rather than a mood board.
- Help define what the clothing line stands for as it grows and keep it coherent with the wider brand.
- Bring proposals that stretch us, and the judgment to know which of them are ready.
- Prepare technical drawings and tech packs, and lead fit sessions through to approved samples.
Across the team
- Partner with merchandising on range architecture, pricing, and commercial balance.
- Work with sourcing and production on lead times, minimums, and feasibility, without quietly conceding the design intent.
- Contribute to styling, campaign direction, and launch material alongside the creative team.
We’d love to hear from you if you are/have:
- Experience designing clothing collections that have reached production, with a portfolio showing the full path from concept to finished garment.
- A true creative sensibility, and a feel for quality: you can tell a very good product from an acceptable one, and say what makes the difference.
- A clear position on silhouette, proportion, colour, and material, and the ability to say why a decision is the right one.
- Real fluency with fabric: how it drapes, behaves, wears, and what it costs to work with.
- Confidence with technical drawing and tech packs, and ease in a fit session.
- The ambition to build rather than maintain, together with the patience that building actually takes.
- Comfort working closely with commercial and production colleagues, and openness to their constraints.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- An appreciation and understanding for the Tekla brand and product.
