![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Steele challenges the popular view that corset-wearing women were merely the victims of fashion, and delves into the ""complex gender politics surrounding the corset controversies of the past."" The hundreds of color and b&w photos and illustrations provide entertaining visual evidence for Steele's scholarship. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where she has personally organised over 20 exhibitions since 1997, including The Corset: Fashioning the Body, London Fashion, Gothic: Dark Glamour, Shoe Obsession, Daphne Guinness, A Queer History of Fashion, and Dance and Fashion. In The Corset: A Cultural History, Valerie Steele, chief curator and acting director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, takes on an item of clothing that has achieved notoriety among many historians. ![]() Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the corset became less popular and gradually faded almost completely from use, though recently, it's come back into fashion as sexy outerwear. In the 18th century, ""tight-lacing"" was a common phenomenon, but in the 19th century, technology allowed for more effective corsetry. Jean Paul Gaultier s contribution to late-20th-century fashion might be summed up in two garments: the corset and the mens skirt. For 400 years, women wore corsets that controlled their shape and constricted, and sometimes crushed, their ribs and organs. ![]()
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