Biographie de Valerie Steele
The editor and author : Valerie Steel is director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and founding editor of Fashion Theory. Described in The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women" and by Suzy Menkes as "the Freud of fashion," Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph. D.) with a rare ability to communicate with general audiences. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Steel has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies.
The contributing author: Unquestionably a leader in the global fashion press, Suzy Menkes is International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International. Her work appears on the websites of 23 international editions of Vogue in 16 languages. She is also a leading Instagram influencer. Among the world's most influential fashion critics, she is an officer of the Order of the British Empire as well as a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.
She lives and works in London and Paris.