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.
The Fashion System
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Publisher : Hill & Wang
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 0809044374
ISBN-13 : 9780809044375
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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."


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