Described in The Washington Post as one of “fashion’s brainiest women” and by Suzy Menkes as “The Freud of Fashion,” she was listed as one of “The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry” in the Business of Fashion 500: (2014 to the present). She has appeared on many television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Undressed: The Story of Fashion. Her lavishly illustrated and charmingly written book, The Corset: A Cultural History, argues that the. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion. Valerie Steele is the scholar usually associated with the pro-corset position today. Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale PhD) with the rare ability to communicate with general audiences. In addition, she is founder and editor in chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, the first scholarly journal in Fashion Studies. Her books have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The corset is one of the most controversial items of clothing in the history of fashion. Fashion Designers A-Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT. She is also the author or editor of more than 25 books, including Paris Fashion, Women of Fashion, Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power, The Corset, The Berg Companion to Fashion, and. Throughout its history, says Steele, the. So begins Valerie Steele’s fascinating book, The Corset: A Cultural History. The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the entire history of fashion. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has organized more than two dozen exhibitions since 1997, including The Corset: Fashioning the Body Gothic: Dark Glamour A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color and Paris, Capital of Fashion. New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Press, 2001.

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