Museum Publications A–Z
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.
![Corset book cover of back view of a woman wearing a corset](/museum/images/the-corset-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
The Corset: A Cultural History
By Valerie Steele, Yale University Press, 2003
![Elegance in an Age of Crisis](/museum/images/elegance-in-crisis-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s
Edited by Patricia Mears and G. Bruce Boyer, Yale University Press, 2014
![woman in a white lace ensemble](/museum/images/fashion-italian-style-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
Fashion, Italian Style
By Valerie Steele, Yale University Press, 2003
![portrait of a person in dark, gothic makeup](/museum/images/gothic-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
Gothic: Dark Glamour
By Valerie Steele and Jennifer Park, Yale University Press, 2008
Received an honorable mention in the 2009 aam museum publications design competition
![black and white image of a woman wearing headdress](/museum/images/toledo-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
Isabel Toledo: Fashion From the Inside Out
By Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears, Yale University Press, 2009
![a person, nude with tattoos on their arm, holding a giant lipstick tube with the letter "Q" superimposed on white](/museum/images/queer-history-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk
Edited by Valerie Steele, Yale University Press, 2013
WINNER OF THE 2014 MILLIA DAVENPORT PUBLICATION AWARD FROM THE COSTUME SOCIETY OF
AMERICA
![blue embellished heels at the top of the image, with a reflection of the woman wearing the shoes in lingerie on the black shiny floor](/museum/images/shoes-lexicon-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
Shoes: A Lexicon of Style
By Valerie Steele, Rizzoli, 1999
![white illustration of two women in night gowns against a grey background](/museum/images/ysl-halston-mfit-publications-resize.jpg)
Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s
By Patricia Mears and Emma McClendon, Yale University Press, 2015