http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog Valerie Steele website and blog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:50:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The exhibition American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion opened on November 5th at the Museum at FIT.  Curated by Patricia Mears, American Beauty is a very personal view of American fashion, focusing on designers who are technically innovative. Francisco Costa, Narciso Rodriguez, Thom Browne, Maria Cornejo, Yeohlee Teng, Jean ... http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/american-beauty-at-fit-essay-on-marc-jacobs-mfit-symposium/ Blog2 Back again!  This is like keeping a diary – and forgetting to write anything for a couple of weeks… Fortunately, there have been some memorable events recently to jog my memory. Together with members of the Couture Council, I made a field trip to visit the designer Prabal Gurung.  When I ... http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/73/ December 4, 2009  "Introduction," Symposium on American Style.  Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/fashion-institute-of-technology-nyc/ October 30, 2009  "A Fashion Museum: The Care and Exhibition of Fashion," lecture at Universidad Mexico del Norte Americana, Mexico City. http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-universidad-mexico-del-norte-americana-mexico-city/ My friends have been urging me to start writing a blog, so here goes…. Last Friday, I went down to Philadelphia to see the exhibition Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 1850-1925 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, it featured about 30 dresses, plus accessories and ... http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/69/ FIT Goes To The Dark Side With A Gothic Show http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-shophound-gothic-is-a-winner/ Gothic: Dark Glamour http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/morbid-outlook-gothicdark-glamour/ Gothic: Dark Glamour http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/theme-magazine-gothic-dark-glamour/ Book Review of Gothic: Dark Glamour http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-last-visible-blog/ Why does goth fashion never die? http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/national-post-dark-glamour/