| The Fashion System Contributor(s): Barthes, Roland (Author), Ward, Matthew (Translator), Howard, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0520071778 ISBN-13: 9780520071773 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1990 Annotation: The object of this inquiry is the structural analysis of women's clothing as currently described by Fashion magazines: its method was originally inspired by the general science of signs postulated by Saussure under the name semiology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Beauty & Grooming - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 391.001 |
| LCCN: 90011009 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.01" W x 8.97" (0.95 lbs) 351 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |