Join renowned fashion historian Ivan Sayers for an evening of fashion featuring clothing from the Edwardian period through the 1910s!
Event Details
- Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
- Registration is required, and seating is general admission.
Ivan Sayers was born in Cornwall, Ontario, and moved to British Columbia at the age of two. He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Classical Studies in 1969 and, in 1970, began his museum career as a volunteer at the Museum of Vancouver. He became the Curator of History at the museum from 1976 to 1990 and, in 1991, left to become a consultant and lecturer.
For the last 50 years, he has produced lectures, exhibitions and fashion shows on historical clothing and social history for museums and organizations across Western Canada and the Western United States. Mr. Sayers has collected costumes since he was a teenager. He now has one of the finest privately owned collections of period clothing in Canada, with men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing and accessories dating from c.1690 to the present. He regularly lectures at several local universities and colleges, has received awards from the Western Canadian Designers and Fashion Association and the Vancouver Historical Society, and was given a distinguished service award by the British Columbia Museum Association in October 2010. In May of 2015, Kwantlen Polytechnic University awarded Ivan an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. In September 2016, Ivan was honoured by the Museum of Vancouver with the distinction of Curator Emeritus.
This event is sponsored by 
through the West Vancouver Memorial Library Foundation.