The curator reflects on more than two decades at the helm of the museum and how a story about the Victorian corset changed her entire career path.
Author:Sarah FieldingPublish date:Sep 4, 2019In our long-running series, "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion and beauty industries about how they broke in and found success.
As a fashion historian and author — she has written about 25 books and founded the first scholarly magazine on fashion studies, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, and Culture — Steele is an undeniable force in preserving and celebrating fashion for what it is: a beautiful and societally responsive form of expression.
One of them was also Richard Martin, who was the director of The Museum at FIT back in the '80s and early '90s. He did great shows, like in 1987, "Fashion in Surrealism" or 'Three Women.' The 'Three Women' inspired me to research and write my third book, Women of Fashion, the history of designers in the 20th century.
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