viiNotes on Contributors
Valerie Steele is Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of
Technology in New York, and Editor of the quarterly journal Fashion Theory:
The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. Her numerous published works
includeHandbags: A Lexicon of Style (with Laird Borrelli) (Rizzoli); Shoes:
A Lexicon of Style (Rizzoli); China Chic, East Meets West (with John S.
Major) (Yale University Press); Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now
(Yale University Press, Adam Biro); Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power (Oxford
University Press); Women of Fashion: 20th Century Designers (Rizzoli); Men
and Women: Dressing the Part (with Claudia Kidwell) (Smithsonian Institu-
tion Press); Paris Fashion: a Cultural History (Oxford University: revised
edition Berg); and Fashion and Eroticism (Oxford University Press).
Her books have been reviewed in dozens of periodicals and newspapers
as diverse as the Italian fashion magazine Donna and The Los Angeles Times
Book Review, and she is a regular contributor of essays to many publications,
includingIsabel and Ruben Tolelo:A Marriage of Art & Fashion (Korinsha),
Claire McCordell: Redefining Modernism (Abrams) and The Style Engine
(Monacelli). Dr Steele has organized several major exhibitions at the Fashion
Institution of Technology, often centred on the themes explored in her books.
Dr Steele lectures frequently and her articles have been published in periodicals
ranging from Aperture andArtforum to Visionnaire,Vogue and of course,
Fashion Theory.
Caroline Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the Cultural Studies department at
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, where she is
currently also Senior Research Fellow in Fashion. Additionally she is a visiting
Tutor at Goldsmiths College, London, and is on the editorial board of Fashion
Theory: the Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. She has taught and written
widely on the history and theory of fashion, ranging from exhibition
catalogues to academic articles. With Minna Thornton, she is co-author of
Women and Fashion: a New Look. She is currently working on a book on
contemporary fashion and its historical origins in modernity to be published
by Yale University Press.