The Language of Fashion
by Barthes, Roland; Stafford, Andy; Stafford, Andy; Carter, MichaelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-21
Publisher(s): Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary
Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most subtle and perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. The Language of Fashion brings together all Barthes' untranslated writings on fashion. The Language of Fashion presents a set of remarkable essays, revealing the breadth and insight of Barthes' long engagement with the history of clothes. The essays range from closely argued essays laying down the foundations for a structural and semiological analysis of clothing to a critical analysis of the significance of gemstones and jewellery, from an exploration of how the contrasting styles of Courrges and Chanel replayed the clash between ancient and modern to a discussion of the meaning of hippy style in Morocco, and from the nature of desire to the role of the dandy and colour in fashion. Constantly questioning, always changing, Barthes' ideas about clothes and fashion remain to provoke another generation of readers seeking to understand not only the culture of fashion but the fashion of culture.
Author Biography
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books.
Table of Contents
Preface * History and Sociology of Clothes * Language and Clothes * Towards a Sociology of Clothes * Blue Is in Fashion This Year * From Jewels to Gems * Dandyism and Fashion * The Fashion System * Fashion, A Strategy of Desire * Fashion and the Social Sciences * On the Fashion System * The Contest between Chanel and Courrège * Case of Cultural Criticism * Dismantling a Rhetoric * Postface * Notes * Select Bibliography * Index
Preface * History and Sociology of Clothes * Language and Clothes * Towards a Sociology of Clothes * Blue Is in Fashion This Year * From Jewels to Gems * Dandyism and Fashion * The Fashion System * Fashion, A Strategy of Desire * Fashion and the Social Sciences * On the Fashion System * The Contest between Chanel and Courrège * Case of Cultural Criticism * Dismantling a Rhetoric * Postface * Notes * Select Bibliography * Index
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