The Fashion System by Roland Barthes

The Fashion System

Roland Barthes with Matthew Ward, Richard Howard

351 pages 1967

11 editions

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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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 under...

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