# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerie-steele
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:23:38.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerie-steele"
name: "Valerie Steele"
slug: "valerie-steele"
description: "Valerie Fahnestock Steele is an American fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Steele has written more than eight books on the history of fashion, and can be regarded as one of the pioneers in the study of fashion. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Valerie_Steele.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.500182666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.valeriesteelefashion.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Steele"
    title: "Valerie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "فاليري ستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Steele"
    title: "Valerie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Steele"
    title: "Valerie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Steele"
    title: "Valerie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Steele"
    title: "Valerie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9C"
    title: "ואלרי סטיל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Steele"
    title: "Valerie Steele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ヴァレリー・スティール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q526185"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump