Photography by Hannah Sommer

ABOUT ANYA

Graduated in June 2017 with a 1st class BA Honours Degree in Costume For Performance at the prestigious London College of Fashion.

Recent industry experience includes “The Magic Faraway Tree”, Series 2 and the upcoming Series 3 of Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power”, and Apple TV’s “Silo”. Previous experience includes Amazon’s “Mammals”, and ITV’s “Grantchester” among others, as well as designing a number of music videos and award winning short films. Early experience includes LAMDA theatre productions; opera productions for Royal College of Music; an internship at The Metropolitan Opera, New York; internship with celebrity stylist and dressmaker Kate Halfpenny, London; assisting on TV commercials for Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Sky Sports, Vodafone amongst others.

Throughout her school life Anya was obsessed with corsetry-making, Alexander McQueen, Tim Walker and West End musicals, later developing a passion for conceptual theatre and all genres of film. She chose her senior school based on the standard of their sewing machines and Textiles and Drama departments although her academic record is also exemplary. Early ambition lay in fashion design but later Anya decided she would rather create captivating one-off pieces, and thus chose the path of Costume Design.

Anya adores the whole creative and making process which her time at LCF allowed her to explore and refine under the guidance of world-class tutors and technicians; from research, experimentation, design and making, including breaking down, metal work, leather work and embellishment. She is a perfectionist and takes great pride in her own work but also loves to work with performers and as part of a creative team.