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Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.

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Valerie Steele
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Art Historian
Costume Historian
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Historian
Valerie Fahnestock Steele
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