![]() ![]() ![]() Italian or German?’ It took me a couple of minutes, as thoughts of Armani flashed through my mind, but finally I realized what he meant. “Once, when I was a graduate student at Yale, a history professor asked me about my dissertation. She illustrates an encounter with a professor at Yale in her 1991 article The F-Word: ![]() Fashion was not acknowledged as a serious subject of study and was considered ‘frivolous, sexist, bourgeois, ‘material’ (not intellectual)’. She figured that fashion was a part of culture and thus a worthy topic. in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History: fashion. It was at Yale Graduate School that she had her ‘aha-moment’ regarding the dissertation topic for her Ph.D. However, it was not always a walk in the park. From 1997 onwards she has curated over 25 exhibitions, including The Corset and A Queer History of Fashion: From Closet to Catwalk, and her list of books and articles is even longer. Steele is the longtime chief curator (since 1997) and director (since 2003) of the museum at FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Valerie Steele, so if you want to learn more, she is the person to talk to. A leading figure in the fashion curation world is Dr. Through thoroughly researched exhibitions fashion exceeds its superficial image and can inform us about the current or historical zeitgeist in which it was created. ![]()
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