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Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of ‘fashion’ as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses has been well established in a number of disciplines. Until Fashion Theory’s launch 11 years ago the dressed body had suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing Subscribe

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Dance and Fashion
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2014)
Edited by Valerie Steele. With contributions by Mary Davis, Colleen Hill, Melissa Marra, Emma McClendon, Patricia Mears, Masafumi Monden, Adelheid Rasche, Elizabeth Way, and Anna Winestein. Order Online

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A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2013)
Editor and co-author with Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan Katz, Peter McNeil, and Elizabeth Wilson. Order Online

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Fashion Design, A-Z. The Collection of The Museum at FIT
(Taschen, 2013) Order Online

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Shoe Obsession
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2012)
Co-authored with Colleen Hill. Order Online

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AKRIS
(Assouline, 2012) Order Online

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The Impossible Collection of Fashion
(New York and Paris: Assouline, 2011) Order Online

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Japan Fashion Now
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2010)
Co-author with Patricia Mears, Hiroshi Narumi, Yuniya Kawamura. Order Online

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The Berg Companion to Fashion
(Oxford: Berg, 2010)
Editor Order Online

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Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2009)
Co-author with Patricia Mears. Order Online

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Gothic: Dark Glamour
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2008)
Co-author with Jennifer Park. Order Online

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The Black Dress
(HarperCollins, 2007) Order Online

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Ralph Rucci
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2007).
Co-author with Patricia Mears and Clare Sauro. Order Online

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Editor in Chief, The Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion 3 volumes
(New York: Scribners, 2004) Order Online

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Fashion, Italian Style
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003) Order Online

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The Fan: Fashion and Femininity
(New York: Rizzoli International, 2003) Order Online

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The Corset: A Cultural History
(London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
Chinese edition, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 2004. Order Online

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The Red Dress
(New York: Rizzoli International, 2001) Order Online

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Handbags: A Lexicon of Style
(New York: Rizzoli International, 2000).
Co-author with Laird Borrelli. Order Online

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China Chic: East Meets West
(London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
Co-editor with John S. Major. Order Online

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Shoes: A Lexicon of Style
(New York: Rizzoli International, 1999; London: Scriptum, 1999). Order Online

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50 Years of Fashion: New Look to Now
(London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; revised edition, 2000).
French edition: Se vêtir au XXe siècle. De 1945 à nos jours
(Paris: Adam Biro, 1998). Order Online

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Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
German edition, Berlin Verlag, 1996;
Brazilian edition, Rocco, 1997:
French edition, Abbeville, 1997.
Italian edition, Meltemi editore, 2005. Order Online

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Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers
(New York: Rizzoli International, 1991) Order Online

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Men and Women: Dressing the Part.
(Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.) Co-editor with Claudia Kidwell. Author of three chapters.

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Paris Fashion: A Cultural History
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; Revised edition, Oxford: Berg, 1998) Order Online

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Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era to the Jazz Age
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1985). Order Online ]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/book-list/feed/ 0