Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Valerie Steele

Born: 1955 (age 70)
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)