November 10, 2026
Private Club, New York City: Talk on Feel the Floor, book signing, and dinner.
Events
July 8, 2026
British Film Institute, London: Book talk and signing of Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley.
July 7, 2026
British Film Institute, London: Introductory remarks and screening of It’s Love Again, with choreography by Buddy Bradley.
June 22, 2026
McNally Jackson Books, New York City: Panel discussion on Feel the Floor and book signing.
June 3, 2026
Private venue, New York City: Feel the Floor comments, signing, party, and dinner.
May 29, 2026
Victoria and Albert Museum, London: speaking on the collaboration of Buddy Bradley and Frederick Ashton, at the Frederick Ashton symposium at the Victoria and Albert East Storehouse.
May 21, 2026, 6:30 pm
92nd Street Y, New York City: Feel the Floor discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson. Tickets: https://www.92ny.org/event/maureen-footer-with-margo-jefferson
May 20, 2026
Private club, New York City: Feel the Floor discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Levering Lewis.
May 18, 2026
Private club, New York City: Book lunch, talk, and signing of Feel the Floor.
May 12, 2026
Publication of Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley (Beacon Press).
February 24, 2025
Columbia University Studies in Dance Seminar
Presentation on Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley.
October 20, 2022
Fashion Institute of Technology, Discussion with Patricia Mears, Deputy Director of the Museum at FIT on Dior and His Decorators and the role of fashion in interior design, approximately 6 p.m.
October 8, 2019
Mississippi Museum of Art, lecture on Dior and His Decorators.
July 19, 2019
Dallas Museum of Art, Book lecture and signing in conjunction with the exhibit Christian Dior and the World.
May 18, 2019
Fundraiser for Children’s Chain of Los Angeles, an auxiliary of the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, at the Christian Dior Boutique, Beverly Hills.
April 18, 2019
Lecture and luncheon at the New York Junior League.
April 17, 2019
Cercle d’Amis, French Institute/Alliance Francaise of New York, book presentation and lunch.
April 11, 2019
Benefit lunch and book presentation for the French Heritage Society, Atlanta, at the Cherokee Town Club.
April 1, 2019
Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, time TBD.
March 25, 2019
French Heritage Society, Boston, benefit book talk and dinner at the Chilton Club.
February 22, 2019
The Grand Tour, Palm Beach, book talk with Annette Tapert, cocktails and book signing.
February 7, 2019
Denver Art Museum; Lecture, in conjunction with the exhibit, Christian Dior and the World.
January 24, 2019
Parsons School of Design, Paris, 6:30 p.m. book talk.
January 23, 2019
Sotheby’s Paris, 7 p.m., panel discussion with Olivier Gabet, director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Marie-France Pochna, biographer of Christian Dior.
November 15, 2018
Albertine Bookstore, The French Consulate, 972 Fifth Avenue, New York; A conversation on Dior and architecture with Marie-France Pochna, biographer of Christian Dior, followed by book signing and reception.
November 8, 2018
Private club, New York City; Discussion of Dior and His Decorators, with Maureen Footer and Harold Koda, fashion scholar and former curator-in-chief of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
October 16, 2018
Sotheby’s New York.
New York book launch, panel discussion, and signing, in conjunction with L’Art de Vivre: Property from the Collection of Kathleen and Martin Field (Sale date: October 20). Sponsored by Sotheby’s and Christian Dior. By invitation.
October 13, 2018
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA.
Lecture, signing, and reception.
October 10, 2018
Christian Dior Boutique, Bond Street, London.
London book launch, signing, and reception. By invitation.