Fashion & Jewellery Design/2006/34 min/Reel № 06.001
ByValerie Steele
Valerie Steele on cultural influences in fashion design
Entrenching Itself on the International Design Calendar/Recorded 2006
A close reading, kept within reach.
Valerie Steele takes fashion & jewellery design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in USA in 2006, the conversation is grounded in Valerie's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
From the Ottoman Empire to modern-day fashion houses, Valerie Steele discusses the history of fashion.
About the speaker
Valerie Steele
New York/USA
Valerie Steele has a PhD from Yale University and is director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York.
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