NEWS :: 2012
Valerie Steele April 14, 2012  1pm

The Fashion Lab cordially invites you to the first of the 2012 YARN lecture series!

Featuring Valerie Steele
Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 1pm
at Washington University's Steinberg Auditorium - FREE

Dr. Valerie Steele is the Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has curated more than 20 exhibitions in the past ten years, including Gothic: Dark Glamour; Love & War: The Weaponized Woman; The Corset: Fashioning the Body; London Fashion; and Femme Fatale: Fashion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.

Editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Berg Publishers), which she founded in 1997, Dr. Steele is also the author of numerous books, including Gothic: Dark Glamour; The Corset: A Cultural History; Paris Fashion; Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now; Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power; Women of Fashion: 20th-Century Designers, Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out, and Japan Fashion Now. She was editor-in-chief of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion.

Dr. Steele lectures frequently and has appeared on many television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Undressed: The Story of Fashion. After she appeared on the PBS special, The Way We Wear, she was described in The Washington Post as one of “fashion’s brainiest women.” Often quoted in media, she was herself the subject of profiles in Forbes: “Fashion Professor” and in The New York Times: “High-Heeled Historian,” as well as being listed in the New York Daily News “Fashion’s 50 Most
powerful.”

Dr. Steele will give a lecture titled "Is Fashion Art?" on Saturday, April 14 at 1pm. She is also the special guest at Craft Alliance's ARTrageous Baubles Ball on April 13, 2012

The Yarn Lecture Series is sponsored by Alison & John Ferring

Click here to go to the Fashion Lab main page >>

© 2009 Craft Alliance      DELMAR LOOP: 6640 Delmar Blvd, STL, MO 63130      GRAND CENTER: 501 N Grand Blvd, STL, MO 63103   Bookmark and Share