Anita Love

Role

Anita Love is Module lead for the 60 credit first year Fashion Management module - Fashion and Textile product. She also teaches on the second year Research project module and is also a placement tutor.

Career overview

On graduating Anita worked for 4 years as Product design and marketing Manager for Lister Yarns a large UK based spinner of worsted and cotton yarns across a variety of spinning systems, where she oversaw the product development of the knitwear and hosiery yarn ranges and the marketing and promotion of these ranges.

After a short spell in Italy Anita returned to the UK and took up a role as a category assistant for product at Boots the Chemist and then within a year took a role as a buyer at Next Plc. Anita continued to work as a buyer at Next across different product areas of Childrenswear until 2002. Having completed a PGCE in 2003/4 Anita then started her teaching career as a Secondary school teacher within mainstream and alternative provision and latterly a College teacher of Textiles and Fashion Business.

In 2013 Anita started her Love textiles company specialising in textile workshops.