After being a clothing shop-lifter, clothing shopper, shop-girl, shop-manager, and corporate manager for a chain of clothing shops, Anna finally got a chance to design for Joe Dahan of Joe's Jeans. She was over the moon and her early efforts to help develop his "Hippie" line demonstrate the young designer's approach to fashion as art. She was crushed when she lost the job.

Here, her good friend John Cherpas, of "Fever" and "Josephine Loka" fame, is wearing something produced from one of her sketches (early 90s).