The Language of Fashion

44 The Language of Fashion signifier both for the romantic air and for the dress to wear to the casino. I am thus referred back ...

‘Blue is in Fashion This Year’ 45 (two signifieds and two signifiers), linked to each other by a kind of proportionality.^10 Let ...

46 The Language of Fashion We can make use of these concomitant variations of signs to remind ourselves again of the particular ...

‘Blue is in Fashion This Year’ 47 material Colour motif Details Collar Sleeves Pockets Waist vents Fastenings Pleats Edging Stit ...

48 The Language of Fashion of clothes into articles) does not sell according to what it signifies: there are no ‘signifiers’ on ...

‘Blue is in Fashion This Year’ 49 with a hip item (skirt or trousers); and it is a systemic unit in that it is in opposition to ...

50 The Language of Fashion it is cited, to the signified fashion. Therefore I can—and I must—treat all that is said by the fashi ...

‘Blue is in Fashion This Year’ 51 Notes 1 Published in Revue Française de Sociologie, vol. 1 no. 2 (april) 1960, 147–62; Oeuvres ...

52 The Language of Fashion 8 For these vestimentary morphemes I propose the noun ‘vestemes’, by analogy to Claude Lévi-Strauss’s ...

‘Blue is in Fashion This Year’ 53 and the vertical axis, as they layer themselves on top of each other in thickness and in heigh ...

For a long time, for centuries, perhaps even millennia, the gemstone was considered to be essentially a mineral substance; wheth ...

From Gemstones to Jewellery 55 grew old and so were, despite everything, alive. as for the quintessential stone, the diamond, it ...

56 The Language of Fashion superlative gold, absolute richness—here the gemstone becomes the very concept of price; it is worn l ...

From Gemstones to Jewellery 57 and kept away from the female body, condemned to sit in a safe. In short, fashion—need I say more ...

58 The Language of Fashion very sign of its prestige and of its magical qualities: namely its highest price; not only is jewelle ...

From Gemstones to Jewellery 59 clothing not because it is absolutely precious but because it plays a crucial role in making clot ...

For centuries there were as many clothing items as there were social classes. Every social condition had its garment and there w ...

Dandyism and Fashion 61 In fact, the separation of the social classes was not abolished at all: though defeated politically, the ...

62 The Language of Fashion subjecting it to an absolute logic. Furthermore, he takes distinction that bit further: its essence i ...

Dandyism and Fashion 63 no longer ever be unique. So ready-to-wear clothing was the first fatal setback for dandyism. But, more ...