Anne Harman

Bio

Anne imparts her technical knowledge and expertise to students across 2nd year and 3rd years on the BA (Hons) Fashion Design course and MA Fashion Design. Anne has been at UCA Epsom now for just under 4 years.

Anne recently joined UCA coming from Vivienne Westwood’s design studio in Battersea. This gives Anne an opportunity to pass on her creative knowledge and passion for creative art but also to be proactive in giving the students skills, positivity, and ambition to achieve their goals in their practical projects.

In 2024 Anne achieved her AFHEA Associate Fellowship teaching certificate here at UCA.

Anne works closely with the 2nd year pattern cutter for the BA (Hons) Fashion Design course and develops practical samples and step-by-step technical samples to help students have a better understanding of complicated garment constructions and to help develop the student’s skill set, as this Is a continuous development.

Anne keeps up to date with relevant fashion garment construction along with attention on high standards of garment finishings as well as running several workshops during the year giving students a high level of student experience. A recent workshop Anne has designed and delivered is her own inspired by Vivienne Westwood style corset for the MA Fashion Design course which was very successful. 

In July 2025 Anne successfully applied for a Knowledge Exchange Placement Programme. The placement review panel consisted of 5 technicians from a variety of technical backgrounds and grades representing 5 different institutions across the UK. The panel and ITSS team were very positive about her application which was based on sewing is a dying art form. They granted funding to visit the Kent State University in Ohio, USA and she completed her placement at the end of August 2025.Anne was delighted as this funding is not given out lightly and such an amazing placement experience, which at the end saw her give a 40minute speech about her experience in fashion to 300 freshman students and an opportunity to exchange knowledge with their Professors and students at the university.

Anne has previously run her own business, worked as a freelance seamstress and freelanced as a technician at two universities. She has held various workshops in arts and crafts, contemporary flower arranging, manageress for Lee Apparel Ltd (Lee Jeans) within a department store and working for C&H Fabrics. Her skill set is vast but at Vivienne Westwood she was head couture seamstress working on couture wedding dresses, corsets, celebrity outfits/dresses, red carpet film premier dresses for celebrities, celebrity wedding dresses including dressing for our royal family and international princesses. Anne also worked on Vivienne Westwood’s Paris catwalk shows for many years, creating some amazing show pieces.