On this episode of Off The Rack, we discuss the history of Canadian fashion with an in-depth look at the fashion collection at the Royal Ontario Museum. Dr. Alexandra Palmer has retired from the Royal Ontario Museum since this recording but has left a long lasting legacy!Dr. Alexandra Palmer is a design historian specializing in the history of textiles and fashion. She has authored three award-winning publications, contributed to international museum catalogues, and is an editor for scholarly books and journals. She has curated over 20 exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum where she is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles, responsible for the collection of 44,000 European and North American textiles, fashions and accessories. As Associate Professor (status only), Art History at the University of Toronto, she teaches about the impact of textiles and fashion on the climate crisis. In 2023 Dr. Palmer was appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, in recognition of her contribution to French culture.She is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles, responsible for the collection of 44,000 European and North American textiles, fashions and accessories at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. As Associate Professor (status only), Art History at the University of Toronto, she teaches about the impact of textiles and fashion during the Anthropocene. In 2023 France named her Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her contribution to French culture.Palmer has written three award-winning publications: Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947– 1957 (2018) Millia Davenport Publication Award 2019 and ICOM Costume 60th Anniversary Award 2022; Christian Dior: A New Look, A New Enterprise 1947 – 57, (2009, revised 2019, French translation forthcoming), Millia Davenport Publication Award 2010, and Couture & Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s (2001), Clio Award for Ontario History.