Fashion System - Roland Barthes - Paperback

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."Barthes, Roland is the author of 'Fashion System - Roland Barthes - Paperback' with ISBN 9780809015030 and ISBN 080901503X.