Bio.

Heather Anderson is a multidisciplinary artisan and designer, whose mediums span painting, sculpture, textiles, tailoring, illustration, and surface design-with a Jamaican and Southern  accent-by way of Brooklyn. She was a CFDA Design Scholar, apprenticed with couturier Geoffrey Beene and earned her BFA with honors from the  Fashion Institute of Technology, majoring in Fashion Design and Illustration.  

As a  womenswear and accessory designer, her work has been featured in New York Fashion Week, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue,  Italian Vogue, and Vogue Nippon. She designed millinery for Alicia Keys, the Rolling Stones, Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Lopez as well as bespoke pieces for luxury retailers-the first time she saw her work in the window of Bergdorf Goodman, she cried. Embracing the visceral and tactile aspect of craft and it’s infinite creative possibilities, she transitioned into theatrical millinery and ultimately, became a self-taught craft artisan and colorist/dyer for Film, TV, and Broadway.

Heather’s work requires the ability to adapt-to work in any medium, using any discipline at any given time. Her process begins with a designer’s sketch, reverse engineering its elements, and reconstruct-using random mediums, fibre arts, sculpture, painting, dyeing, metal work or gold leaf (and a hefty dose of power tools). With her designer’s aesthetic, she strives for a perfect and appropriate finish to create costume pieces that transport the viewer to another time and space. 

During the past 2019-2020 production season, Heather replicated 1970s shibori dyed silk for the  FX limited series Halston, aged and dyed the sepia toned memories of Nutbush, Tennessee for Tina! The Musical, and graffiti tagged  Lin-Manuel Miranda’s kicks for Freestyle Love Supreme. Previous to our national lockdown, Heather had the pleasure of working on West Side Story Broadway and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story film-simultaneously.

Heather lives and (theoretically) works in New York City.