Quote of the day
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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)






