Anitra Michelle is a multidisciplinary designer, visual storyteller, and world-builder whose practice moves fluidly across costume design, fashion, art, and object-making. Rooted in designing and visioning, her work explores the relationship between narrative, image, material, and identity.

Working across television, film, commercials, theatre, and private clientele, Anitra has built a distinctive career shaped by cinematic thinking, character-driven design, and cultural nuance. She began by assisting Emmy and Tony Award-winning costume designer Shane Ballard on the theatrical production of Oliver at El Museo del Barrio in New York, before designing And She Would Stand Like This at A.R.T./New York. She later expanded into television and film, with costume design credits including Amazon’s Harlem Season 3, Paramount+’s Diarra from Detroit, HBO Max’s That Damn Michael Che Season 2, and NBC/Peacock’s Bust Down.

A graduate of Howard University with a dual bachelor’s degree, Anitra Michelle also studied Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. During her time living in Paris, she honed her visual language through studies in Photographic Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally, with presentations in New York, Paris, and Italy.

Anitra is also the founder of the womenswear label PLUTOCRACY and the menswear label Anitra Michelle//HOMME. A former Fashion Group International Womenswear Designer of the Year nominee, she has worked with iconic fashion houses including Vera Wang, Lanvin, and Karl Lagerfeld. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Vogue Italia, L’Officiel, TMRW, and Essence.

Outside of film and television, her wider practice includes furniture design, upcycling, literary development, and travel-based creative research—each informing a multidisciplinary vision centered on transformation, beauty, and storytelling.

Anitra Michelle is currently based between Los Angeles and New York.