Monday, September 28, 2020 From 6:00 PM To 7:00 PM Add to Calendar 2020-09-28 18:00:00 2020-09-28 19:00:00 French Fashion vs American Fashion! To celebrate the French Fashion Week, we are honored to welcome Valerie Steele, American fashion historian, curator, and director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Online Event America/New_York
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About Valerie Steele
Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph.D.) with a rare ability to communicate with general audiences. She is author or co-author of more than two dozen books, including Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, Women of Fashion, Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power, and Fashion Designers A-Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT. Her books have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion. She has appeared on many television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Undressed: The Story of Fashion. Described in The Washington Post as one of fashion's brainiest women and by Suzy Menkes as The Freud of Fashion, she is listed as one of The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry in the Business of Fashion 500 (2014-present).
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Join Clémence for our first UMUL of the year for an in-depth, online discussion of Voyage autour de ma chambre by Xavier de Maistre.
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Mix and Mingle Virtually with Boston’s Francophone Institutions
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