The Fashion System
Download or Read eBook The Fashion System PDF written by Roland Barthes and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1983 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Roland Barthes |
Publisher | : Hill & Wang |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1983 |
ISBN-10 | : 0809044374 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780809044375 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Fashion System by : Roland Barthes
Book excerpt: 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."