Valerie Steele is Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she has organized more than 20 exhibitions, including The Corset: Fashioning the Body and A Queer History of Fashion. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory, and the author or editor of 30 books, including Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power (1996), which has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

There’s a certain type of book that doesn’t just sit quietly on the shelf – it lingers. [This] is exactly that kind of book: part cultural critique, part psychological excavation, and part sartorial meditation … both timely and quietly radical.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fashion as a Deep SurfaceChapter 1: Freud and FashionChapter 2: The Naked DreamerChapter 3: The MasqueradeChapter 4: The Mirror and the Fragmented BodyChapter 5: Bitter EnemiesChapter 6: Desire and Sexual DifferenceChapter 7: To Touch the GazeChapter 8: Bodies to WearNotesBibliographyImage CreditsIndex

Valerie Steele is Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she has organized more than 20 exhibitions, including The Corset: Fashioning the Body and A Queer History of Fashion. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory, and the author or editor of 30 books, including Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power (1996), which has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

There’s a certain type of book that doesn’t just sit quietly on the shelf – it lingers. [This] is exactly that kind of book: part cultural critique, part psychological excavation, and part sartorial meditation … both timely and quietly radical.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fashion as a Deep SurfaceChapter 1: Freud and FashionChapter 2: The Naked DreamerChapter 3: The MasqueradeChapter 4: The Mirror and the Fragmented BodyChapter 5: Bitter EnemiesChapter 6: Desire and Sexual DifferenceChapter 7: To Touch the GazeChapter 8: Bodies to WearNotesBibliographyImage CreditsIndex

Valerie Steele is Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she has organized more than 20 exhibitions, including The Corset: Fashioning the Body and A Queer History of Fashion. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory, and the author or editor of 30 books, including Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power (1996), which has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

There’s a certain type of book that doesn’t just sit quietly on the shelf – it lingers. [This] is exactly that kind of book: part cultural critique, part psychological excavation, and part sartorial meditation … both timely and quietly radical.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fashion as a Deep SurfaceChapter 1: Freud and FashionChapter 2: The Naked DreamerChapter 3: The MasqueradeChapter 4: The Mirror and the Fragmented BodyChapter 5: Bitter EnemiesChapter 6: Desire and Sexual DifferenceChapter 7: To Touch the GazeChapter 8: Bodies to WearNotesBibliographyImage CreditsIndex