The Fashion System
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780520071773, 9780520071773
Author
Roland Barthes
Producer
University of California Press
Pages
316
Year of production
1990
Binding
150x225
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."