Located in New York City, FIT is part of the State University of New York. Valerie Steele (V.S) : The Fashion Institute of Technology is a college of art, design, business, and technology. 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: (20).ĭorothée Charles (D.C.): Can you introduce The Fashion Institute of Technology, the University and the Museum? She has appeared on many television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Undressed: The Story of Fashion. 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. Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph.D) 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 peer-reviewed, scholarly journal in Fashion Studies. Her books have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. 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. Valerie Steele has organized more than 25 exhibitions since 1997, including The Corset, London Fashion, Gothic: Dark Glamour Daphne Guinness, A Queer History of Fashion, Dance and Fashion and the forthcoming Proust’s Muse, the Countess Greffulhe.

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