Christian Dior: Women, Fashion and the Making of Modern France

Trinity Women Graduates invites you to a lecture by Professor Sarah Alyn Stacey, TWG Professor in Residence.

Thursday, 26th November 2026 | 7.30 pm
Máirtín Uí Chadhain Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

This lecture will explore Christian Dior’s influence on post-war France in terms both of shaping a feminine ideal and of the economic and cultural significance of the fashion house.

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About the speaker

Professor Sarah Alyn Stacey, FTCD, Académie de Savoie, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, is Head of French at Trinity College Dublin and founding Director of the Trinity Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Appointed to Trinity in 1996, her research and teaching focus on French Renaissance literature, politics, religious dissent, the early modern Court of Savoy, and Franco-Irish literary and historical links.