Star Wars and Fashion History

Valerie Steele was interviewed by Vanity Fair about the costumes of Star Wars and interprets them
within a context of fashion history.

How Star Wars Changed the Way We Dress

Add commentIn Blog Press December 24th, 2015

Fashion & Museums at the National Museum of Costume (Portugal)

UPDATE: Portuguese news outlets covered Valerie’s participation in this conference:
Publico | Life & Fashion — November 25, 2015

November 26, 2015 | Lisbon, Portugal

Conférence avec Valerie Steele au Musée national du costume de Lisbonne/Museu Nacional do Traje, le 26 Nov 2015, 17h pic.twitter.com/FjFWMHFeZm

— Histoire de la mode (@histoiresdemode) November 6, 2015

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Reem Acra & Valerie Steele Take on Gender Bias in Fashion

“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.

“The fifth fashion capital will be virtual.”–Valerie Steele #GFCC

— CUNY Fashion Studies (@CUNYFashion) October 13, 2015

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Business of Fashion | Roll Call

Roll Call is a column by The Business of Fashion that highlights some of the fashion industry’s most interesting jobs and the talented people who do them.

The Business of Fashion‘s Kati Chitrakorn sat down with Valerie Steele for an interview about her role as Director and Chief Curator at The Museum at FIT.

“Putting on museum exhibitions is like making a film — it requires many people with different talents.”

Read the full interview on the BOF website.

Add commentIn Blog Press September 25th, 2015