Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis: an interview with Dr. Valerie Steele

Update: 2025-10-01

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It's Freud x fashion this week as Dr. Valerie Steele joins us to speak about her exhibition Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis which is currently on view at The Museum at FIT through January 4, 2026. The exhibition--which is the first of its kind--explores "key psychoanalytic concepts about the body, sexuality, and the unconscious," by way of 100 items of dress spanning more than 130 years of fashion history.

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Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis: an interview with Dr. Valerie Steele

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