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Title: FASHION SYSTEM
By: Roland Barthes
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0520071778
ISBN 13: 9780520071773
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 25 July, 1990
Pages: 351
Synopsis: 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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