Valerie
Steele

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York (MFIT).

A leading fashion academic, she holds a PhD from Yale and is the author or co-author of over a dozen books, including A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk (Yale, 2013), Shoe Obsession (Yale, 2013), Fashion Designers A-Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT (Taschen, 2012) and many others.

She is also the founder of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, and the editor-in-chief of the three-volume Encyclopaedia of Clothing and Fashion (Scribners, 2005).