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September 29, 2023 - September 29, 2023

The Museum at FIT offers publications to accompany many of its exhibitions. The museum also produces brochures for each exhibition, which are provided free upon visiting the museum.

American Beauty

by Patricia Mears, Yale University Press, 2009.

Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse

By Patricia Mears, Laura Jacobs, Jane Pritchard, Rosemary Harden, and Joel Lobenthal, Vendome Press, 2019.

China Chic book cover

China Chic: East Meets West

By Valerie Steele and John S. Major, Yale University Press, 1999.

the corset

By Valerie Steele, Yale University Press, 2003.

Dance and Fashion book cover MFIT

by Valerie Steele, Yale University Press, 2014.

Daphne Guiness book cover MFIT

By Valerie Steele and Daphne Guinness, Yale University Press, 2011.

 

denim: Fashion's frontier

By Emma McClendon; with a foreword by Fred Dennis; Yale University Press, 2016.

Elegance in an Age of Crisis

Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s

Edited by Patricia Mears and G. Bruce Boyer, Yale University Press, 2014.

Exhibitionism book cover

By Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill, Skira, 2018

Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme book cover

By Patricia Mears, Thames & Hudson, 2017.

Exposed: A History of Lingerie book cover

Exposed: A History of Lingerie

By Colleen Hill, Yale University Press, 2014.

Fairy Tale Fashion book cover

By Colleen Hill, Yale University Prss, 2016.

Fashion A-Z book cover

By Valerie Steele with an introduction by Suzy Menkes, TASCHEN. Updated 2020 Edition.

Fashion, Italian Style

Fashion, Italian Style

By Valerie Steele, Yale University Press, 2003. 

Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch

By Valerie Steele and Melissa Marra, Yale University Press, 2015.

50 years of fashion

Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now

By Valerie Steele, Yale University Press; New Ed edition, 2000.

food and fashion cover

By Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way, Bloomsbury, 2023.

fresh fly fabulous book cover

By Elizabeth Way and Elena Romero, Foreword by Slick Rick, Rizzoli Electa, 2023

gothic: dark glamour book
Received an honorable mention in the 2009 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition

Gothic: Dark Glamour

By Valerie Steele and Jennifer Park, Yale University Press, 2008. 

Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out

Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out

By Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears, Yale University Press, 2009.

ivy style book

Ivy Style

By Patricia Mears, Christopher Breward, G. Bruce Boyer, Christian Chensvold, Masafumi Monden, and Peter McNeil, Yale University Press, 2012.

Japan Fashion Now Book Cover

By Valerie Steele, Patricia Mears, Yuniya Kawamura, and Hiroshi Narumi, Yale University Press, 2010.

Mme Gres book cover
Received First Prize in the 2009 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition.

Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion

By Patricia Mears, Yale University Press, 2008.

Paris, Capital of Fashion book cover

By Valerie Steele, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Paris Refashioned Cover

Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968

By Colleen Hill, Yale University Press, 2017.

Pink Cover

By Valerie Steele, Thames & Hudson, 2018.

Power Mode: The Force of Fashion

By Emma McClendon, Skira, 2019.

Queer Histoy of Fashion
Winner of the 2014 Millia Davenport Publication Award from the Costume Society of America.

A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk

Edited by Valerie Steele, Yale University Press, 2013.

Ralph Rucci: Art of Weightlessness

By Valerie Steele, Patricia Mears, and Clare Sauro, Yale University Press, 2007.

The Rose in Fashion book cover

By Colleen Hill with essays by Shonagh Marshall, Patricia Mears and Dr. Valerie Steele, Rizzoli Electa, 2021.

The Rose in Fashion book cover

By Amy de la Haye with an introduction by Dr. Valerie Steele and a chapter by Colleen Hill, Yale University Press, 2021.

Shoe Obession book cover

By Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill, Yale University Press, 2013.

shoes: a lexicon of style

Shoes: A Lexicon of Style

By Valerie Steele, Rizzoli, 1999. 

shoes a–z book cover

By Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill, Taschen, 2023.

YSL Halston book cover

Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s

By Patricia Mears and Emma McClendon, Yale University Press, 2015.