Valerie Fahnestock Steele Quotes

United States, Historian
1955

Valerie Fahnestock Steele is an American fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003.As curator of the museum, Steele 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; and Femme Fatale: Fashion in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

Also known as Curator, Director

Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

Valerie Fahnestock Steele
- Art
- Knowledge
- Education
Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule

Valerie Fahnestock Steele
- Fashion
- Reason

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

Valerie Fahnestock Steele
- World
- History
- Fashion
Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.

Valerie Fahnestock Steele
- Power
- Combat
- Gears
The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances.

Valerie Fahnestock Steele
- Powerful
- Looks
- Self
The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?

Valerie Fahnestock Steele
- Time
- Shoes
- Icons
I think that a lot of our fashion history shows do touch on important issues. Fashion and Technology obviously does, because technology is impacting fashion in so many ways, from computer-assisted design to the way we actually purchase clothes online.

Valerie Fahnestock Steele