Valerie Steele

'Dress, Dreams, and Desire'

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"Fascinating." - The New Yorker What can psychoanalysis tell us about the power and allure of fashion? Valerie Steele, author of Dress, Dreams and Desire , was described by critic Suzy Menkes as the Freud of fashion. In this pathbreaking book, t

'Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power'

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The word fetishism evokes images of `kinky' sex, involving an abnormal attraction to certain articles of clothing, such as black leather boots, or body parts, like legs and buttocks. Yet the fetish is in fashion - on the catwalks and in the streets. L