Reem Acra & Valerie Steele Take on Gender Bias in Fashion
In Appearances Blog PressNovember 10th, 2015
“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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