Biography
Tonny Sorensen was born on March 9, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He earned a Bachelors of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from the University of Copenhagen, and a degree in Business and Trade from a Copenhagen trade school. Sorensen was a member of Denmark’s Taekwondo team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and won a Gold Medal in the Heavyweight division of the 1991 World Taekwondo Championships in Athens, Greece. Sorensen subsequently owned the Glad Saxe dojo in Denmark, an elite school that produced several Taekwondo world champions.
Sorensen moved to the United States in 1991, settling in Los Angeles, where he studied acting, screenwriting and filmmaking. In 1998 he co-produced the 1998 movie American Intellectuals, starring Portia de Rossi.
Sorensen’s renegade style of management earned him a reputation as a rebel in the world of fashion. His “one-second rule”, in which he instantly decides on whether or not to pursue a new project, design or program, led to the global phenomenon that was the Trucker Cap.
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