Valerie Steele
Valerie Fahnestock Steele (born 1955) is a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003.[1]
Biography
Valerie Steele (Ph.D., Yale University) is Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT).[2][3] She has curated more than 20 exhibitions in the past ten years, including Gothic: Dark Glamour; Love & War: The Weaponized Woman; The Corset: Fashioning the Body; London Fashion; and Femme Fatale: Fashion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.
Editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Berg Publishers), which she founded in 1997, Dr. Steele is also the author of numerous books, including Gothic: Dark Glamour; The Corset: A Cultural History; Paris Fashion; Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now; Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power; and Women of Fashion: 20th-Century Designers. She was editor-in-chief of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Her latest book was Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out, which she co-authored with Patricia Mears, in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name. She is currently working on a book and exhibition, Japan Fashion Now.
Dr. Steele lectures frequently and has appeared on many television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Undressed: The Story of Fashion. After she appeared on the PBS special, The Way We Wear, she was described in The Washington Post as one of “fashion’s brainiest women.” Often quoted in media, she was herself the subject of profiles in Forbes: “Fashion Professor” and in The New York Times: “High-Heeled Historian,” as well as being listed in the New York Daily News “Fashion’s 50 Most Powerful.”[4]
Selected works
- Gothic: Dark Glamour, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-300-13694-3 / 9780300136944 / 0-300-13694-3.
- Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion (editor in chief), Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005, ISBN 0-684-31451-7.
- Fashion, Italian style, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-300-10014-0.
- The Fan: Fashion and Femininity Unfolded, Rizzoli International Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-8478-2446-2.
- The Red Dress, Rizzoli International Publications, 2001, ISBN 0-8478-2392-X.
- The Corset: a cultural history, Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-09071-4.
- Shoes: a lexicon of style, Rizzoli International Publications, 1999, ISBN 0-8478-2166-8.
- China chic : East meets West (with John S. Major), Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-300-07930-3.
- Bags: a lexicon of style (with Laird Borrelli), Scriptum Publishers, 1999, ISBN 1-902686-04-7.
- Fifty years of fashion: new look to now, Yale University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-300-07132-9.
- Fetish: fashion, sex, and power, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-509044-6.
- Women of fashion: twentieth-century designers, Rizzoli International Publications, 1991, ISBN 0-8478-1394-0.
- Men and women: dressing the part (editor, with Claudia Brush Kidwell), Smithsonian, 1989, ISBN 0-87474-559-4.
- Paris fashion: a cultural history, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-504465-7.
- Fashion and eroticism: ideals of feminine beauty from the Victorian era to the Jazz Age, Oxford University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-19-503530-5.
References
- ↑ FIT Press Release, 5 May 2003 (accessed 11 July 2007).
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- ↑ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/
External links
- Valerie Steele Fashion Web Site
