Fashion System

Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-0-520-07177-3
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 351 Seiten, Trade Paper, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barthes, Roland

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ward, Matthew

Howard, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Modedesign, Stoffe, Schmuckdesign

Über Autor(innen)

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor of the Collège de France until his death in 1980.