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		<title>Dark Glamour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 11, 2016 &#124; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Unfiltered &#8211; an interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katherine Zerrella of Fashion Unfiltered asks me about the turmoil happening within the fashion landscape right now for her &#8220;What the  F#@%, Fashion?&#8221; series.]]></description>
		<link>http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/fashion-unfiltered-an-interview/</link>
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		<title>The New Potato &#8211; an interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I reveal a few of my favorite things in this interview with The New Potato . . . including French toothpaste and Daphne Guinness.]]></description>
		<link>http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/the-new-potato-an-interview/</link>
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		<title>The sinful symbology of the fishnet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valerie Steele writes an article on the history of fishnets for Carine Roitfeld&#8217;s website, CRfashionbook. The sinful symbology of the fishnet &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Star Wars and Fashion History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/star-wars-and-fashion-history/</link>
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		<title>Fashion &amp; Museums at the National Museum of Costume (Portugal)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Portuguese news outlets covered Valerie&#8217;s participation in this conference: Publico &#124; Life &#38; Fashion — November 25, 2015 November 26, 2015 &#124; 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]]></description>
		<link>http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/fashion-museums-at-the-national-museum-of-costume-portugal/</link>
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		<title>Reem Acra &amp; Valerie Steele Take on Gender Bias in Fashion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“85% of FIT’s students are female,” began celebrated fashion historian and curator Valerie Steele at October 13th&#8217;s panel discussion during CUNY’s Global Fashion Capital Conference.&#8221; “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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/reem-acra-valerie-steele-take-on-gender-bias-in-fashion/</link>
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		<title>Business of Fashion &#124; Roll Call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8216;s Kati Chitrakorn sat down with Valerie Steele for an interview about her role as Director and Chief Curator at The Museum at FIT. &#8220;Putting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/business-of-fashion-roll-call/</link>
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		<title>August 2015</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August was been a busy month for press! On August 30th, 1 Granary interviewed me about the state of fashion in museums and academia. &#8220;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://valeriesteelefashion.com/blog/october-2015/</link>
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		<title>Chanel and Her Rivals: Women and 20th-Century Fashion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 15, 2015 at the Hillwood Estate, Museum, &#38; 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. [...]]]></description>
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