The Fashion System

Roland Barthes

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Published by University of California Press, US, 1990

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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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Title
The Fashion System
Author
Roland Barthes
Publisher
University of California Press, US
Publication year
1990
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Language
English
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9780520071773
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