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The language of fashion

Title
The language of fashion / Roland Barthes ; translated by Andy Stafford ; edited by Andy Stafford and Michael Carter.
Author
Barthes, Roland.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
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Additional Authors
Stafford, Andy.
Description
xiii, 183 p.; 19 cm.
Subject
  • Clothing and dress > Social aspects
  • Clothing and dress > History
  • Fashion > Social aspects
  • Fashion > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the French.
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 not on research in 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 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" / by Andy Stafford.
ISBN
  • 1845203801 (pbk.)
  • 9781845203801 (pbk.)
  • 1845203798 (cloth)
  • 9781845203795 (cloth)
LCCN
2005033621
OCLC
  • ocm62344837
  • SCSB-1431110
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library