Quote of the day
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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)






