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CNN investigates the complicated gender history of the color pink
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AS PART OF a new award-winning series exploring our perception of color and its use across cultures, one shade at a time called Colorscope, Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute…
Is Fashion Art?
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IS FASHION ART? The perennial question. Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has said, “I find it extraordinary […] that in this day and age people are still debating it.” Another colleague said to me, “How can you, of all people, question…
The Star calls Valerie Steele’s book “pretty as a picture”
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VALERIE STEELE’S LATEST book, Fashion Designers A-Z, features items from the permanent collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and includes creations from Giorgio Armani to Vivienne Westwood with…
Valerie Steele interviews Michael Gabellini for Surface
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FIT MUSEUM DIRECTOR and curator Dr. Valerie Steele discussed simplicity and Donald Trump’s style with architect and designer, Michael Gabellini. In the interview Valerie asked, “I’m reminded of these pictures I saw of Trump building interiors. Which I’m sure Donald Trump thinks are luxurious.