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Fashion System 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) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation."Read More
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- 080901503X
- 9780809015030
- Ward Matthew, Barthes Roland
- 1 July 1984
- T Hill & Wang
- Paperback (Book)
- 303
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