Quote of the day
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
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)






