Wednesday, November 2, 2011

A Conversation with Valerie Steele on Fashion and Art

Valerie Steele 2007 Photo by Aaron Corbett (Courtesy of Valerie Steele)
Dr. Valerie Steele is a renowned fashion scholar. She is the Director and Chief Curator of the Fashion Institute of Technology, editor of the journal Fashion Theory and has written numerous books including  The Corset: A Cultural History; Paris Fashion; Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now; Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power; and Women of Fashion: 20th-Century Designers. She has curated more than twenty exhibitions including the current exhibition at FIT called Daphne Guinness.

In August, I spoke with Valerie about the convergence of fashion and art as part of my series of interviews with curators on the topic. The transcript of that interview was published on Fashion Projects and can be found here.

3 comments:

Mademoiselle Poirot said...

Will have to read the interview later, but the photo got me: she looks so cool... ;-) xo

John Frantsen said...

Very interesting interview. I like your approach to fashion. . .
Keep it up ;o)

studioJudith said...

Ingrid -

Another excellent interview ... . I liked the way you compared the opinions on fashion / art.

Jjjjj

p.s.
Please send me your snail mail
address, so I can send the little
piece you asked about ;-))