Garage Auditorium
19.00
Free
Limited places, drop in early to avoid disappointment
The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the history of
fashion. Although regarded as an essential element of fashionable dress from
the Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was also frequently
condemned as an instrument of torture. Why did women continue to don steel and
whalebone corsets for four hundred years? And why did they finally stop?
Valerie Steele, art historian, and director and chief curator of the museum at
the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York will give an insightful lecture
answering these questions and perhaps dispel the myth that has surrounded this
garment for centuries.
Fashion Theory magazine are co-organizers of this event
