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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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Book category Books in English The arts Industrial / commercial art & design Fashion & textiles: design

• Full title: Fashion System
• Author: Roland Barthes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 351
• EAN: 9780520071773
• ISBN: 0520071778
• ID: 04088472
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. July 1990

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