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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 underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion "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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The Fashion system, Roland Barthes, Matthew Ward, Richard Howard
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- Released
- 1990
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- Title
- The Fashion system
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Roland Barthes, Matthew Ward, Richard Howard
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0520071778
- ISBN13
- 9780520071773
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Literary Studies, Art, Philosophy, Fashion Themes, Fashion, Scientific Theories, Photos, Research, Semiotics
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
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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 underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion "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."