Valerie Steele

Author of The Corset: A Cultural History

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About the Author

Valerie Steele is chief curator and acting director, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She is founder and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. (Bowker Author Biography)

Includes the names: Valerie Steel, Valerie Steele, Valerie ed Steele, Ms. Valerie Steele, Dr. Valerie Steele

Image credit: Valerie Steele

Series

Fashion Theory

Works by Valerie Steele

Popular Recent

The Corset: A Cultural History (2001) 275 copies, 2 reviews

Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power (1997) 241 copies, 3 reviews

Paris Fashion: A Cultural History (1988) 75 copies

Gothic: Dark Glamour (2008) 72 copies, 3 reviews

Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now (1997) 64 copies

Japan Fashion Now (2010) 44 copies

Fashion Designers A-Z (2012) 42 copies

Shoes: A Lexicon of Style (1999) 42 copies, 1 review

Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion (2004) 39 copies, 1 review

The Black Dress (2007) 37 copies, 1 review

Barbie Millicent Roberts: An Original (1998) 36 copies

Bags (1999) 36 copies

Daphne Guinness (2011) 34 copies, 1 review

China Chic: East Meets West (1999) 34 copies, 1 review

Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era Through the Jazz Age (1985) 31 copies

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (2013) 30 copies

Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers (1991) 28 copies

Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness (2007) 28 copies

Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out (2009) 26 copies

Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color (2018) 25 copies, 1 review

The Red Dress (2001) 24 copies

Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum (2008) 24 copies, 1 review

The Berg Companion to Fashion (2010) 24 copies

Paris Fashion: A Cultural History (2017) 21 copies

The Fan: Fashion and Femininity Unfolded (2002) 19 copies

Fashion, Italian Style (2003) 17 copies

Encyclopedia Of Clothing And Fashion: 003 (Scribner Library of Daily Life) (2004) 16 copies

Shoe obsession (2012) 16 copies

Dance and Fashion (2014) 16 copies

Encyclopedia Of Clothing And Fashion: 001 (Scribner Library of Daily Life) (2005) 15 copies

Encyclopedia Of Clothing And Fashion: 002 (Scribner Library of Daily Life) (2004) 14 copies

High Heels: Fashion, Femininity & Seduction (2011) 12 copies

Paris, Capital of Fashion (2019) 8 copies

Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch (2015) 7 copies

Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT (2019) 6 copies

Fashion Theory: Volume 2, Issue 4: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture: Special Issue on Methodology (1998) 5 copies

Fashion Theory: Volume 1, Issue 3: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (1997) 5 copies

Impossible Collection of Fashion (2011) 4 copies

AKRIS (Classics) (2012) 4 copies

Fashion Theory: Volume 3, Issue 1: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (v. 3, Issue 1) (1999) 4 copies

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Volume 2 Issue 3) (1998) 4 copies

Fashion Theory: Volume 1, Issue 1 : The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory) (1997) 4 copies

Perry Ellis 3 copies

Fashion Theory: Volume 1, Issue 4 : The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture: Special Issue on Hair (Fashion Theory) (1997) 3 copies

Fashion Theory: Cyberpl@y: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture: Cyberpl@y v. 5, Issue 3 (2001) 2 copies

Fashion Theory : The Journal of Dress, Body, Culture : Volume 3 Issue 4 December of 1999 (1999) 2 copies

Fashion Theory: Volume 9, Issue 4: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory) (2005) 2 copies

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture: Femme Fatale (Volume 8 Issue 3) (2004) 2 copies

Art, Design, & Barbie: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon (1995) 2 copies

Fashion Theory: Volume 1, Issue 2 : The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory) (1997) 2 copies

Fashion Theory Volume 10 Issue 4: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory) (2006) 2 copies

Shoes A-Z : the collection of the museum at FIT (2023) 1 copy

Fashion Theory Volume 5 Issue 1 2001: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (2001) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: Volume 6, Issue 3: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (2002) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: Volume 6, Issue 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Cuture (2002) 1 copy

Fashion Theory : Hacia una teoría cultural de la moda (2018) 1 copy

Se vêtir au xxe siecle. De 1945 a nos jours (1998) 1 copy

She's Like a Rainbow: Colors in Fashion 1 copy

Fashion Theory: Volume 9, Issue 1: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (2005) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (2012) 1 copy, 1 review

The Fan - Fashion and Femininity Unfolded 1 copy

The Corset: A Cultural History unknown Edition by Valerie Steele [2003] (2003) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: Volume 6, Issue 4: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (v. 6, Issue 4) (2002) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: Volume 9, Issue 3: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (2005) 1 copy

Gothic: Dark Glamour by Valerie Steele (2008-08-15) (1546) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture: Volume 2, Issue 2, June 1998 1 copy

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Volume 5 Issue 4) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture: Fashion Photography (Volume 6 Issue 1) 1 copy

Ruben Toledo: Fashionation (2009) 1 copy

Fashion Theory: Volume 2, Issue 1: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (1998) 1 copy

The corset : fashion and eroticism 1 copy

She's Like a Rainbow: Colors in Fashion 1 copy

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Associated Works

Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture (2009) — Contributor — 44 copies, 2 reviews

Exposed: A History of Lingerie (2014) — Introduction — 14 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Steele, Valerie
Legal name: Steele, Valerie Fahnestock
Birthdate: 1955-06-29
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Education: Yale University (Ph.D.)
Occupations: museum director (Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology)
fashion historian
Relationships: Major, John S. (husband)
Organizations: Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

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Reviews

Gothic: Dark Glamour by Valerie Steele

Meh...

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AceVonS | 2 other reviews | Jul 14, 2022 |

Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color by Valerie Steele

A fascinating book about the history of the color pink and its ever-changing connotations. Unfortunately, one of its contributing writers apparently ascribes to the "pink is an evil, anti-feminist color" trope. Otherwise, I would have given it five stars.

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hillaryrose7 | Aug 8, 2019 |

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture by Valerie Steele

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising.

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CatalogoLDTM | Jul 31, 2019 |

The Corset: A Cultural History by Valerie Steele

Valeric Steele, one of the world's most respected fashion historians, explores the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths about this notorious garment and revealing new information and perspectives on its changing significance over the centuries.

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CatalogoLDTM | 1 other review | May 19, 2019 |

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