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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview