May 11, 2016 | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, CT
Dr. Valerie Steele, author of Gothic: Dark Glamour and director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, will speak about Gothic themes in high fashion and in sub cultural style, charting their relationship with art, film, literature, and music. Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by The Costume & Textile Society of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and The Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation. Learn more here.
In Appearances Blog May 3rd, 2016
UPDATE: Portuguese news outlets covered Valerie’s participation in this conference:
Publico | Life & Fashion — November 25, 2015
November 26, 2015 | Lisbon, Portugal
In Appearances Blog November 10th, 2015
“85% of FIT’s students are female,” began celebrated fashion historian and curator Valerie Steele at October 13th’s panel discussion during CUNY’s Global Fashion Capital Conference.” “Yet if you go by famous names—the Armanis, the Marc Jacobs—more than half of them are men.”
Yahoo Style covered the panel I was on which centered on women’s roles in the industry, as well as how the media and an increasingly global economy are helping to shape new fashion capitals.
In Appearances Blog Press November 10th, 2015
On October 15, 2015 at the Hillwood Estate, Museum, & Gardens in Washington, DC, I will discuss women and 20th-century fashion, focusing on the great fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in the context of her profession, and compared to other female fashion designers of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Elsa Schiaparelli and Madeleine Vionnet. This was the golden age of the couturière, when female designers dominated Paris fashion. Yet when Chanel came back into business in the 1950s, the world of fashion had changed, and she faced mostly male rivals, such as Christian Dior, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Jacques Fath. What is the situation of female fashion designers today? Have they regained parity with men?
Learn more about this event here.
In Appearances Blog September 6th, 2015
