Palmer, Alexandra 1957-

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PALMER, Alexandra 1957-

PERSONAL: Born March 16, 1957, in Athens, Greece; daughter of Leslie LaMonte and Jean (Duce) Palmer; married Paul Mathiesen; children: Wyndham, Hugo. Education: University of Toronto, B.A., 1979; New York University, M.A., 1981; University of Brighton, Ph.D., 1994.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, worked as assistant professor of craft and design history; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Veronika Gervers Memorial Lecturer, 1992, staff member, beginning 1996, currently Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curator, Textiles and Costume Section, Near Eastern and Asian Civilizations Department, and chair of Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles and Costume. York University, adjunct faculty member; lecturer at other institutions, including Parsons School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ray College of Design, International Academy of Fashion Design and Merchandising, Ontario College of Art, Sheridan College, and University of Toronto. Kent State University, worked as assistant curator at university museum. Worked as designer of hats and dresses in New York, NY.

WRITINGS:

Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic FashionTrade in the 1950s, University of British Columbia Press (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 2001.

Contributor to books, including Dress and Popular Culture, edited by Cunningham and Lab, Bowling Green State University Popular Press (Bowling Green, OH), 1991; and The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption, and Homedressmaking, edited by Barbara Burman, Berg (Oxford, England), 1999. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Architectural Digest, Dress, Rotunda, Museum Quarterly, Threads, Flare, Ars Textrina, Costume, and Fashion Theory: Journal of Dress, Body, and Culture.