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The language of fashion / Roland Barthes ; translated by Andy Stafford ; edited by Andy Stafford and Michael Carter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.Edition: English edDescription: xiii, 183 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1845203801 (paper)
  • 1845203798 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391 22
LOC classification:
  • GT511 .B363 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Clothing history -- History and sociology of clothing : some methodological observations -- Language and clothing -- Towards sociology of dress -- Systems and structures -- 'Blue is in fashion this year' : a note on research into signifying units in fashion clothing -- From gemstones to jewellery -- Dandyism and fashion -- [An early preface to] The fashion system -- Fashion, a strategy of desire : round-table discussion with Roland Barthes, Jean Duvignaud and Henri Lefebvre -- Fashion and the social sciences (interview) -- On the fashion system (interview) -- Fashion debates and interpretations -- The contest between Chanel and Courrèges : refereed by a philosopher -- A case of cultural criticism -- Showing how rhetoric works -- Clothes, fashion and system in the writings of Roland Barthes : 'something out of nothing' / Andy Stafford.
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"Published in association with Power Publications, Sydney"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-171) and index.

Clothing history -- History and sociology of clothing : some methodological observations -- Language and clothing -- Towards sociology of dress -- Systems and structures -- 'Blue is in fashion this year' : a note on research into signifying units in fashion clothing -- From gemstones to jewellery -- Dandyism and fashion -- [An early preface to] The fashion system -- Fashion, a strategy of desire : round-table discussion with Roland Barthes, Jean Duvignaud and Henri Lefebvre -- Fashion and the social sciences (interview) -- On the fashion system (interview) -- Fashion debates and interpretations -- The contest between Chanel and Courrèges : refereed by a philosopher -- A case of cultural criticism -- Showing how rhetoric works -- Clothes, fashion and system in the writings of Roland Barthes : 'something out of nothing' / Andy Stafford.

Translated from the French.

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