Berta Pavlov

Berta Pavlov has 35 years of fashion industry experience in the Toronto Fashion Industry and has been a part time professor at George Brown College for a combination of 20 years. Her expertise in pattern drafting is in both flat paper and digital drafting comes from years of line development and production ready patterns that include; fittings, grading and technical sketches. Although her area of expertise has been in womenswear, she has also worked on menswear, childrenswear and leather.

Recent years have also led into research with the Royal Ontario Museum, and Dr. Alexandra Palmer, Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Senior Curator and Chair of the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles & Costume at the ROM and Curator. She worked with Dr. Palmer in a research capacity on the Christian Dior Exhibit in an extensive analysis of the processes and techniques used by Dior. This research has been documented on a video, “Decoding Dior’s Delphine” and included the Zigomar suit and Delphine dress samples and toiles displayed at the ROM during the Christian Dior Exhibit. The Dior research project included documented pattern work and sketches of the research in the book Christian Dior History & Modernity, 1947-1957 by Dr. Alexandra Palmer (2018).

She was selected to represent her research on Cristóbal Balenciaga: Master of Geometric, in the First International Cristóbal Balenciaga Conference, October 1-2, 2020. This research will be a lead up to the upcoming ROM Couture Exhibit 2023. Additional research is an in-depth study on “Three 18^th Century Gentleman’s Chintz Banyans in the ROM Collection: Mapping the Textile Patterns from the Fashion Patterns” to be published 2020.