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The Fashion System

Paperback • 1990 • English

The Fashion System

By Roland Barthes

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About the book

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) ...Show more

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ISBN

9780520071773

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

The Fashion System

Format

Paperback

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