The Fashion System Paperback
by Roland Barthes
Paperback
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In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology.
At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don't calculate; if clothing's producers and consumers had the same consciousness, clothing would be bought (and produced) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation."
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:351 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:25/07/1990
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- ISBN:9780520071773
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:351 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:25/07/1990
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520071773