Fashion writers and historians may be familiar with the name Alexandra Palmer. The University of Toronto lecturer is also the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curator in the Textile and Costume Section at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, and has written quite a few interesting essays and articles about the history of fashion.
Palmer is indeed the author of Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s, that analyses designs that survived from the 50s and the importance of post-war couture fashion and of its connections with North America; she has co-edited with Hazel Clark the volume Old Clothes, New Looks: Second-Hand Fashion, that follows the developments of the history of second-hand fashion, from rags to cool vintagewear, and edited Fashion: A Canadian Perspective, on the intriguing and unexplored subject of Canadian fashion identity.
Palmer is at present involved in a new project, a book about Christian Dior that will be out in October. The project is actually part of a ROM event opening in 2011. Palmer will give a talk tomorrow morning about the new Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles and Costumes at Rom at Rimini University (Sede Universitaria Valgimigli, via Santa Chiara 40). The talk will be introduced by Giovanna Franci and Mariella Lorusso and I'm sure it will be interesting not only for fashion and design students, but also for all those people who are into history and textiles.
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