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Valerie Steele is director and chief curator and Melissa Marra is associate curator of education and public programs, both at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 2,186 ratings · 208 reviews · 144 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Corset: A Cultural History 4.15 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fetish - Fashion, Sex & Power 3.73 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1995 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gothic: Dark Glamour by Valerie Steele, Jennifer Park 4.10 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris Fashion: A Cultural History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color 4.10 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now 3.91 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daphne Guinness by Valerie Steele, Daphne Guinness 4.30 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fashion Theory: hacia una teoría cultural de la moda 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Dress 3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era Through the Jazz Age 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (4 books)
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“It is clear, for example, that many Americans did not like the idea of avant-garde art, especially in relation to women's fashion. Many people were particularly indignant about what seemed to them the deliberate obliteration of sexual attractiveness, which they identified with the tightwaisted dress and the hourglass figure.”
― Valerie Steele, Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now

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“In answer to the dominatrix at the Torture Garden, I would say that anyone who wears clothes, listens to music, goes to the movies, or is on the Internet might want to know more about fetishism. Certainly, anyone who is “into” fashion has to address the issue.”
― Valerie Steele, Fetish - Fashion, Sex & Power

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“Tight-lacers were frequently compared to suicides and infaticides, torturers and murderers. They were bad wome, who solicited the lecherous gaze of "vulgar" men. Specifically, they were bad mothers - at a time in the late nineteenth century when motherhood was seen as women's sacred duty.”
― Valerie Steele, The Corset: A Cultural History

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