Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Name: Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Start: 2025-09-10T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 227 West 27th Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 10001

Schedule

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

227 West 27th Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 10001 | New York, NY

"Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis" is the first exhibition to explore the complex relationship between fashion and psychoanalysis. Curated by Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, the exhibition will feature approximately 100 looks by designers such as Alexander McQueen, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gianni and Donatella Versace, John Galliano for Christian Dior Haute Couture, Rick Owens, Thierry Mugler, Vivienne Westwood, and many more. Described by Suzy Menkes as "the Freud of Fashion," Steele has spent more than five years working on this exhibition and the accompanying book, which draws on the evolution of psychoanalytic ideas about sexuality and the unconscious, with sections devoted to themes such as the mirror stage, the skin ego, desire, and sexual difference.