Valerie Steele

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Valerie Fahnestock Steele (born 1955) is a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003.^[1]

[edit] Selected works

• 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.

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[edit] External links

• Valerie Steele Fashion Web Site