Designs by Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier are displayed during a press preview for the exhibit 'Dress, Dreams And Desire: Fashion And Psychoanalysis' at The Museum at FIT in New York City. Photo: AP
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 York City 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 armour and the pull of desire.
