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Valerie Steele is Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she has organized more than 20 exhibitions, including The Corset: Fashioning the Body and A Queer History of Fashion. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory, and the author or editor of 30 books, including Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power (1996), which has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.
Historian Valerie Steele guides us confidently and enticingly through the treacherous terrain of our biases, assumptions, fears and lusts, reminding us that even if a dress is sometimes just a dress, it still has a story to tell. * Robin Givhan, author of Make it Ours * A stunning, beautifully crafted 3D rendering of the knot between body and soul—psyche and cloth—providing a dazzling and incredibly informative analysis of fashion. * Patricia Gherovici, psychoanalyst and author, USA * Sumptuously illustrated and characterised by Steele’s formidable intellect and wit, this is a glorious book set to inspire a whole new generation of fashion writers, curators, historians and analysts . * Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland, UK * Valerie Steele’s book is a great read, a truly Freudian pleasure. * Barbara Vinken, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany * Valerie Steele is probably the most important figure in contemporary dress studies and the creator of groundbreaking fashion exhibitions. With this book she brilliantly opens up new ways of thinking about how clothes operate and how we use clothes to explore identity, sexuality and the body. * Elizabeth Wilson, author of Adorned in Dreams *
