Valerie Steele
Encyclopedia
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.
Fashion Institute of Technology
The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
, New York. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003.
Selected works
- Gothic: Dark Glamour, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 00300136943 / 9780300136944 / 0-300-13694-3.
- Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion (editor in chief), Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005, ISBN 0684314517.
- Fashion, Italian style, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0300100140.
- The Fan: Fashion and Femininity Unfolded, Rizzoli International Publications, 2002, ISBN 0847824462.
- The Red Dress, Rizzoli International Publications, 2001, ISBN 084782392X.
- The Corset: a cultural history, Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0300090714.
- Shoes: a lexicon of style, Rizzoli International Publications , 1999, ISBN 0847821668.
- China chic : East meets West (with John S. Major), Yale University Press , 1999, ISBN 0300079303.
- Bags: a lexicon of style (with Laird Borrelli), Scriptum Publishers, 1999, ISBN 1902686047.
- Fifty years of fashion: new look to now, Yale University Press, 1997, ISBN 0300071329.
- Fetish: fashion, sex, and power, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0195090446.
- Women of fashion: twentieth-century designers, Rizzoli International Publications, 1991, ISBN 0847813940.
- Men and women: dressing the part (editor, with Claudia Brush Kidwell), Smithsonian, 1989, ISBN 0874745594.
- Paris fashion: a cultural history, Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0195044657.
- Fashion and eroticism: ideals of feminine beauty from the Victorian era to the Jazz Age, Oxford University Press, 1985, ISBN 0195035305.
External links
- Valerie Steele Fashion Web Site