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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Leanne Italie

Fashion meets Freud. A new exhibit explores clothes through a psychoanalytic lens

"Dress, Dreams and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis" Press Preview - (2025 Invision)

Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis in a new exhibit five years in the making.

Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, curated nearly 100 designer pieces to offer a road map of sorts between fashion and such things as the unconscious mind, the need for armor and the pull of desire.

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