The Fashion System - Softcover

Roland Barthes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080901503X ISBN 13: 9780809015030

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984

Synopsis

Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a system of meaning and subjected it for the first time to semantic analysis. "The Fashion System", published in France in 1967, is bold and imaginative. In his endeavour to confine his love, outrage and passion for fashion to a system, Barthes created a work of literature that is witty, humane, personal and enormously stimulating.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The object of this inquiry is the structural analysis of women's clothing as currently described by Fashion magazines: its method was originally inspired by the general science of signs postulated by Saussure under the name semiology.

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080901503X
• ISBN 13: 9780809015030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 303