Valerie Steele

Valerie Steele

Valerie Fahnestock Steele (* 1955 ) is an American fashion historian.

Life

Steele received her PhD in history from Yale University and wrote her PhD on modern European intellectual history. Her topic was: Fashion and Eroticism in the Victorian Age . Steele came to the view that the cultural history of modernity received little attention in research and was not taken seriously as a research area. So the choice of topic for her doctoral thesis also met with incomprehension among the professors at the university.

She has been the director of the Fashion Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York since 2003 . Steele is also the founder of Fashion Theory magazine . The journal of Dress, Body & Culture . In 2003 she received the Artistry of Fashion Award from the American Apparel & Footwear Association . She is also the editor of Fashion Theory magazine . The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture .

Fonts (selection)

• Akris , Assouline, 2012, ISBN 978-1-6142-8056-9 .
• Gothic: Dark Glamor , Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-300-13694-4 .
• 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 German by Walter-Berndt Fischer, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-60483-3
• 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, 1988, 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 .

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Spex No. 337 (March / April 2012): "You look taller, slimmer and curvier at the same time, fashion interview with Valerie Steele." P. 84ff.
2. ↑ FIT Press Release ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 5, 2003 (accessed July 11, 2007). 

See also

• Ingrid Loschek

Web links

• Valerie Steele Fashion website
• Fashion Theory Tables of Contents (PDF; 140 kB)