http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog Valerie Steele website and blog Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-514 Monday Reviews: Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power :: The Center for Sexual Pleasure & Health Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:15:24 +0000 #comment-514 [...] Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power by cultural and fashion historian Valerie Steele. [...] [...] Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power by cultural and fashion historian Valerie Steele. [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-439 Interesting French Guy Subject Of Friday Athenaeum Salon | Providence Daily Dose Fri, 28 Feb 2014 01:48:44 +0000 #comment-439 [...] interesting guy. The Providence Athenaeum hosts Fashion Institute of Technology Museum Director Valerie Steele for “Octave Uzanne: La Mode Femme in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.” Octave Uzanne (1851-1931) [...] [...] interesting guy. The Providence Athenaeum hosts Fashion Institute of Technology Museum Director Valerie Steele for “Octave Uzanne: La Mode Femme in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.” Octave Uzanne (1851-1931) [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-435 A Night at the Museum | Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:48:55 +0000 #comment-435 [...] I ask for? So when the word was passed along to me about him speaking with FIT Museum Director, Valerie Steele, at the Brooklyn Museum I jumped at the opportunity. An opportunity made even sweeter by [...] [...] I ask for? So when the word was passed along to me about him speaking with FIT Museum Director, Valerie Steele, at the Brooklyn Museum I jumped at the opportunity. An opportunity made even sweeter by [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-352 Schuh-Obsession | ModeLiebenLeben Thu, 02 May 2013 16:05:34 +0000 #comment-352 [...] zur Ausstellung erschienen und keine weitere als die Direktorin und Chefkuratorin des MFIT Valerie Steele hat in Zusammenarbeit mit Coleen Hill die Feder geschwungen. Das Buch ist für jede [...] [...] zur Ausstellung erschienen und keine weitere als die Direktorin und Chefkuratorin des MFIT Valerie Steele hat in Zusammenarbeit mit Coleen Hill die Feder geschwungen. Das Buch ist für jede [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-348 Fashion history exhibited | Musings Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:50:20 +0000 #comment-348 [...] Valerie Steele, whilst declaring her admiration for Diana Vreeland (former editor of Vogue and curator for the Costume Institute (in)famous for her glamourous, yet historically inaccurate exhibitions), thus argues for the value of the object centered or material methodology approach, using her own research into actual measurements of victorian corsets as an example of ’the importance of artifact study, since the written sources tend to be so polemical. I still recall my outrage when I saw, at an exhibition of Victorian dress, a placard quoting one of the more preposterous letters in the notorious corset controversy in The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine as though it were a probative and impartial piece of evidence. I wanted to shout at the curator, “Measure the corsets and dresses in this exhibition before you talk to me about 13-inch waists!” ‘(Steele, 1998 ‘A Museum of Fashion Is More Than a Clothes-Bag’ p. 332  ) [...] [...] Valerie Steele, whilst declaring her admiration for Diana Vreeland (former editor of Vogue and curator for the Costume Institute (in)famous for her glamourous, yet historically inaccurate exhibitions), thus argues for the value of the object centered or material methodology approach, using her own research into actual measurements of victorian corsets as an example of ’the importance of artifact study, since the written sources tend to be so polemical. I still recall my outrage when I saw, at an exhibition of Victorian dress, a placard quoting one of the more preposterous letters in the notorious corset controversy in The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine as though it were a probative and impartial piece of evidence. I wanted to shout at the curator, “Measure the corsets and dresses in this exhibition before you talk to me about 13-inch waists!” ‘(Steele, 1998 ‘A Museum of Fashion Is More Than a Clothes-Bag’ p. 332  ) [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-347 Monday Reviews: Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:01:42 +0000 #comment-347 [...] Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power by cultural and fashion historian Valerie Steele. [...] [...] Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power by cultural and fashion historian Valerie Steele. [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-233 Ethnography « Daisydowden's Blog Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:13:42 +0000 #comment-233 [...] Valerie Steel biography link: http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/ [...] [...] Valerie Steel biography link: http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/ [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-216 Summer Roams+Reads=flower girls, gypsies, head busters and beatniks. « Jade Dressler Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:26:33 +0000 #comment-216 [...] am grateful to curators such as Valerie Steele at FIT who present costume in a scholarly but non-sterile, even thrilling way (think flying Ralph [...] [...] am grateful to curators such as Valerie Steele at FIT who present costume in a scholarly but non-sterile, even thrilling way (think flying Ralph [...]

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/biography/#comment-215 Is the Return to Old Fashioned Glamour a Good Thing? « Beauty Skew Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:40:44 +0000 #comment-215 [...] and fashion historians (e.g., Valerie Steele) have linked different looks to the social and economic state of the country.  The womanly look of [...] [...] and fashion historians (e.g., Valerie Steele) have linked different looks to the social and economic state of the country.  The womanly look of [...]

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