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Museum Quality: The Rise of the Fashion Exhibition

Valerie Steele Valerie Steele (Ph.D., Yale University) is Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). She has curated more than 20 exhibitions in the past ten years, and is also the author of numerous books, including The Black Dress (HarperCollins, 2007), Ralph Rucci (Yale University Press, 2006) and The Corset: A Cultural History (Yale University Press, 2001).
Pages 7-30 | Published online: 21 Apr 2015

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