BIG Dream: How a Dior Dress Came to the ROM

Dr. Alexandra Palmer delivers the inside scoop on the ROM’s commission of the House of Dior’s design and creation of the breathtaking haute couture dress now taking centre stage in BIG. Includes the world premiere of the full version of the film Dior about the making of the dress.

Speaker: Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curator for the Graduate Programme in Art History at York University. She is also a professor in Fine Art History at the University of Toronto and chairs the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles and Costume. Further to this she is the exhibition editor for Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, and the co-curator of the BIG exhibition currently on at the ROM.

$20, ROM Members $15

Please use the Presidents Choice School Entrance located at the South end of the building.