Pamela Grimaud is a freelance visual archives researcher and fashion historian. Besides an MA in Visual Culture, Costume Studies from New York University, she has a BFA in Film Studies from Concordia University, and a BA in Sociology and Communications from the University of Toronto.
A Montreal resident and native of St. Lambert, Quebec Pamela has taught fashion/decorative arts history at the Parsons School of Design and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, as well as at Concordia University.
Her lectures cover varied topics from the impact of World War II on fashions of the 1940s, the evolution of court dress in 17th- and 18th- century France, the allure of couturiers like Worth and Dior, and the game-changing influence of science, pop culture, and politics on design of the 1960s.
Pamela’s love of visual culture, history and current events is equalled by her passion for rendering it as fascinating for others as it is for herself.
Virginia Oldoini, the Countess of Castiglione by Pierre-Louise Pierson, c1865.