In Dress, Dreams, and Desire: A History of Fashion and Psychoanalysis, Valerie Steele draws on key psychoanalytic concepts about the body, sexuality, and the unconscious to interpret the work of designers such as Elsa Schiaparelli, Gianni Versace, and Alexander McQueen. Here, Steele explores how fashion is a lens through which we see ourselves – and how others see us. She is joined by Simon Doonan, author, style commentator, and famed former window dresser.

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