The Team.

Katie Fitzsimons

Katie has had a 20 year career as a costume maker, having started her first trainee job at 16, which means she has seen enough chaos to have developed a clear management philosophy: be a shit umbrella, not a shit funnel. It has served her well since founding her own costume workroom in 2018.

She loves the variety that costume work affords, and her favourite project is usually whichever discipline she hasn't touched in a while. She’s exceptionally experienced at working under pressure, having spent the formative years of her career with in-house making teams at the London film studios, and will stay calm even when faced with a very squeaky deadline.

Recent work highlights include the wedding dress for Bridgerton Series 4, many incredibly frilly creations for Wicked, and bespoke tailored repeats for Wuthering Heights.

However what she’s most proud of in her career is building Fitzsimons & Co, forming the team, and proving that it is possible to run an ethical, happy workplace in the film and TV industry, without compromising on the reliability and quality of the work.

She lives five minutes from the workshop, has a two-year-old daughter, and a husband who makes delightful craft beer for a living.

Founder & Head Cutter

Rachel Harman-Hill

Rachel has been working in the industry since 2013, and brings a calm, clear head to the workroom that proves invaluable when things get busy. She’s excellent at staying calm and thinking clearly under pressure, exactly what you need in a Workshop Lead.

Her making background is in tailoring and menswear, though she'll happily tell you she loves a nice bodice too. Her favourite makes from her career so far have been the Chief of Police in Wonka (memorably made in three different sizes to account for his chocolate obsession), the Kens' beach outfits in Barbie, and a long run of Bridgerton work including Francesca and Lady Cowper.

Since joining the company in 2025 she’s been especially enjoying working with the team to ensure they are playing to their strengths, feel valued for what they do and proud of the work that they make together.

Workshop Lead

Ann Prescott

Maker

With 40+ years of making behind her, Ann has run her own bridal studio in Brighton producing bespoke gowns for private clients, moved through high fashion, and landed in costume; and yet still has the enthusiasm of someone fresh to the workroom. 

She is the maker you want when a heavily embellished fabric needs to look like it was never cut at all: piecing lace, couture finishing, and fine handwork are where she truly flexes her impressive skills and experience, and even after four years working together, she’s still teaching us all new tips and tricks.

Ann’s favourite recent project was her work on the silver ball dress for the opening episode of Bridgerton Series 4. Which, if you've seen it, tells you everything you need to know about our Ann’s amazing work.

Kirsty Chivers

Maker

With a 30 year career as a maker and pattern cutter under her belt, Kirsty spent most of her career in the world of high-end womenswear, making couture pieces for red carpet and runway. When Covid put a stop to fashion work, she made the jump into costume.

She is excellent at solving tricky problems at speed, actually enjoys mind boggling pattern grading, and has great tricks for cutting a garment to make best use of the fabrics pattern or embellishment. She’s happiest making couture womenswear, and if there’s a bias cut dress made by us, it was likely Kirsty’s handiwork.

When she's not in the workroom with us, she runs her own fashion brand, remodeling vintage kimono into beautiful clutch bags and bomber jackets.

Jordan Goertz Edwards

Maker

With 13 years of freelancing across many workrooms in Sussex, Jordan has made work for countless film and TV productions, from His Dark Materials and Artemis Fowl to The Great and Wicked. She also takes on the occasional guerrilla cutting and making job under her own studio name, which has so far produced Can-Can inspired codpieces, vinyl wallpaper ruffs, and a series of facekinis made from Primark bras for a site-specific production of Brave New World. You know, the usual.

She's a brilliant all-rounder with a particular enthusiasm for the small, intricate components that make a garment really special, precision handwork, quilting, smocking, cartridge pleating, are all totally Jordan’s wheelhouse.

One of her proudest work moments; a tiny white suit, cut and made for an eight-year-old. The mini jetted pockets were delightful

Madeline Morgan

Junior Maker

Madeline came to costume through a slightly unexpected route; before joining the workroom she worked as a blacksmith and metalworker, and spent time at a fine art foundry sculpting and welding large-scale bronze sculptures. Several of them now live in museums and public installations around the country.

Four years into her costume career, she brings the same attention to detail to the workroom. She's happiest with detail-heavy, hand-intensive work, smocking, tucks, gathering, silk ribbon embroidery, and has a particular love for late Victorian, Edwardian and 1930s costume.

She's proved quietly brilliant at seeing the potential in workshop scraps, having managed to create wearable garments out of discarded offcuts from several of the projects we’ve worked on recently.