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The Fashion System

by Roland Barthes
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Synopsis

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 to semantic analysis."

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Book Details

Published
March 7, 1985
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Pages
303
ISBN
9780224029841

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