It wasn't only Anna who found this, many of the young plus size models agreed with her. "There wasn't anything in our size that we would buy and wear." Realising the gap in the market, Anna put herself through Central St. Martins College of Art & Design. Her contemporaries were Antonio Berardi, Robert Carey Williams and Tristian Weber. "At St Martin's they were not particularly interested in me doing plus sizes, but no one tried to talk me out of it - but then, I am really strong-willed."

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