The fashion system
Roland Barthes (Author)
Counter 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." -- from publisher description
Print Book, English, 1990
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990
Dictionary
xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520071773, 0520071778
21518039
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1983
Translation of: Système de la mode