Selected Articles

In ArticlesJanuary 28th, 2008

  • “Costume and Fashion,” in Hollywood Costume, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. (London: V&A Publications, 2012)
  • “Édouard Manet: Nana” in Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity, edited by Gloria Groom. (The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2012)
  • “Fashion” in Fashion and Art, edited by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas. (London and New York: Berg, 2012)
  • “Fashion Prescribes the Ritual,” in Walter Van Bierendonck: Dream the World Awake, (Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo and the Mode Museum, 2011)
  • “Leigh Bowery,” in Not a Toy, edited by Vassilis Zidianakis (Berlin: Pictoplasm, 2011)
  • “Artificial Beauty,” in The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives, edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil (New York: Routledge, 2010)
  • “Introduction” Roxanne Lowitt: Backstage Dior, (Kempen, Paris, New York: teNeues, 2010)
  • “Marc Jacobs” in Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture, (NY: Rizzoli, 2009)
  • “Abstraction and the Avant-Garde,” in Fashion Body Cult, edited by Elke Bippus and Dorothea Mink (Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2007)
  • “Military Style,” Vogue Italia (November, 2006)
  • “Shoes and the Erotic Imagination,” in Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, edited by Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil (Oxford: Berg, 2006)
  • “The New Power Look,” Harpers Bazaar (September, 2006)
  • “Fashion and Glamour,” in Glamour, Fabricating Affluence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in conjunction with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004)
  • “The Corset” and “Monuments for Certain Ideas: Valerie Steele Talks to Hussein Chalayan,” in José Teunissen and Jan Brand, eds. The Ideal Woman (Amsterdam: SUN Publishers, 2004).
  • “Femme Fatale: Fashion and Visual Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris,” Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (September, 2004)
  • “A Supermodern Style,” in Yeohlee: Work. Material Architecture (Victoria: The Images Publishing Group, 2003)
  • “Style in Revolt,” in Radical Fashion (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2001)
  • Messengers Style. Text by Valerie Steele. Photographs by Philippe Bialobos (New York and Paris: Editions Assouline, 2000)
  • “Armani, Fashion and Film,” in Giorgio Armani (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2000)
  • “Women Fashioning American Fashion, 1900-2000,” in Pat Kirkham, ed., Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference (New Haven: Yale University Press and Bard Graduate Center, 2000)
  • “Fashion: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” in Nicola White and Ian Griffiths, ed., The Fashion Business: Theory, Practice, Image (Oxford: Berg, 2000)
  • “Jean Paul Gaultier,” in Gerda Buxbaum, ed., Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century (Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2000)
  • “Fashioning Masculinity,” in Giannino Malossi, ed., Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style (New York: Abrams, 1999)
  • “The Italian Look,” in Volare: The Icon of Italy in Global Pop Culture edited by Giannino Malossi (New York: Monicelli Press, 1999).
  • “A Museum of Fashion Is More Than a Clothes-Bag,” Fashion Theory vol.2 issue 4 (December. 1998)
  • Barbie Millicent Roberts: An Original (New York: Pantheon, 1998). Text by Valerie Steele. Photographs by David Levinthal.
  • “Why People Hate Fashion,” in The Style Engine edited by Giannino Malossi (New York: Monacelli, 1998).
  • “McCardell’s American Look.,” Introduction to Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism by Kohle Yohannan (New York: Abrams, 1998).
  • “Le Corset: A Material Culture Analysis of a Deluxe French Book,” The Yale Journal of Criticism (Fall, 1997)
  • “Surgical Spirit,” The Sunday Times (London), November 12, 1995.
  • “Sieg des Fetisch,” Deutsch Vogue (May, 1995).
  • “Jacques Fath,” “Martin Margiela,” “Jil Sander,” “Sybilla,” “Isabel Toledo,” and “Vivienne Westwood,” in Contemporary Fashion, ed. Richard Martin (London: St. James Press, 1995). Revised edition with Forward by Valerie Steele.
  • Art, Design, and Barbie: The Making of a Cultural Icon Text by Valerie Steele. (New York: Rizzoli, 1995).
  • “Italian Fashion, 1943-1968,” in The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1994).
  • “Calvinism Uncovered,” Design Quarterly (December, 1992).
  • “Paint it Black,” View on Color (Paris, October, 1992).
  • “Chanel in Context” in Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader, ed. Juliet Ash and Elizabeth Wilson (London and New York: Pandora/Harper Collins, 1992; paperback published by The University of California Press).
  • “Erotic Allure” in The Idealizing Vision: The Art of Fashion Photography, ed. Andrew Wilkes (New York: Aperture, 1991). Also published in the magazine Aperture.
  • “The F Word,” Lingua Franca (April, 1991)