Quote of the day
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Valerie Steele

Born: 1955 (age 71)
Bio: Valerie Fahnestock Steele is an American fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003.
Known for:
- The Corset: A Cultural History (2001)
- Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power (1996)
- Paris fashion (1988)
- Fifty Years of Fashion (1997)
- Japan Fashion Now (2010)






