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“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
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.
In Blog Press September 25th, 2015
August was been a busy month for press!
- On August 30th, 1 Granary interviewed me about the state of fashion in museums and academia.
“Academics are more willing to accept that fashion is a valid topic to study. Fashion people are now more interested in hearing what intellectuals have to say. I think [it’s] become more relaxed.”
- On August 14th, Artnet News ran a piece asking “Why Are Fashion Blockbusters More Popular Than Art Exhibitions and What Can we do About It?” They spoke to three fashion curators, including myself, to get our perspectives.
- And on August 8th, CBS news featured a fun slideshow on their website called “Swimwear through the ages” to which I contributed a number of insights.
- Lastly, if you missed The New York Times piece where they came and visited me in my home, here is the link to the feature in the real estate section from January 2015.
In Press September 6th, 2015
Dr. Valerie Steele is profiled in the May/June issue of the
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978 and went on to receive a PhD from Yale University.
What insights does she give to burgeoning fashion scholars? She says that, although there are fewer jobs for fashion journalists, there are more opportunities in the visuals of fashion, such as fashion films, and in the business side of fashion.
The profile in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine coincides with Dr. Steele receiving an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College at the Commencement exercises on Sunday, June 14, 2015. Steele will be honored alongside such great minds as:
- David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times
- philanthropist Russell Carson; Steven Chu, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and professor of physics and molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford
- Earl Lewis, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- William Neukom, CEO and founder of the World Justice Project and
- Terry Plank, Columbia geochemist and MacArthur fellow
Read the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine interview here
Additional information about the Honorary Degree Recipients is outlined here.
In Blog Press April 28th, 2015
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