Valerie Steele Fashion http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog Valerie Steele website and blog Tue, 03 May 2016 20:45:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Dark Glamour http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/dark-glamour/ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/dark-glamour/#comments Tue, 03 May 2016 20:45:24 +0000 steve http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/?p=612

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.

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/dark-glamour/feed/ 0 Fashion Unfiltered – an interview http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/fashion-unfiltered-an-interview/ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/fashion-unfiltered-an-interview/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2016 03:19:42 +0000 steve http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/?p=607 Katherine Zerrella of Fashion Unfiltered asks me about the turmoil happening within the fashion landscape right now for her “What the  F#@%, Fashion?” series.

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]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/fashion-unfiltered-an-interview/feed/ 0 The New Potato – an interview http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-new-potato-an-interview/ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-new-potato-an-interview/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:21:53 +0000 steve http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/?p=591 I reveal a few of my favorite things in this interview with The New Potato . . . including French toothpaste and Daphne Guinness.

Valerie Steele in the archives of The Museum at FIT

Valerie Steele in the archives of The Museum at FIT

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-new-potato-an-interview/feed/ 0 The sinful symbology of the fishnet http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-sinful-symbology-of-the-fishnet/ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-sinful-symbology-of-the-fishnet/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2016 02:55:00 +0000 steve http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/?p=585 Valerie Steele writes an article on the history of fishnets for Carine Roitfeld’s website, CRfashionbook.

The sinful symbology of the fishnet

 

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-sinful-symbology-of-the-fishnet/feed/ 0 Star Wars and Fashion History http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/star-wars-and-fashion-history/ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/star-wars-and-fashion-history/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:13:14 +0000 steve http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/?p=568 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

 

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Publico | Life & Fashion — November 25, 2015

November 26, 2015 | Lisbon, Portugal

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/fashion-museums-at-the-national-museum-of-costume-portugal/feed/ 0 Reem Acra & Valerie Steele Take on Gender Bias in Fashion http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/reem-acra-valerie-steele-take-on-gender-bias-in-fashion/ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/reem-acra-valerie-steele-take-on-gender-bias-in-fashion/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:47:52 +0000 steve http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/?p=551

“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.

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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.

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  • 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.

]]> http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/october-2015/feed/ 0 Chanel and Her Rivals: Women and 20th-Century Fashion http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/chanel-and-her-rivals-women-and-20th-century-fashion/ http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/chanel-and-her-rivals-women-and-20th-century-fashion/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2015 01:58:17 +0000 steve http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/?p=490
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.

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