The Language of Fashion

64 The Language of Fashion the absolute individual and the total mass of society: Fashion has in some way been given the job of ...

Without wishing to associate them inconsiderately with the errors in a work in which they are not involved, I would nonetheless ...

66 The Language of Fashion Saussurian-influenced structural linguistics, the semiological project has very recently enjoyed a mu ...

[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 67 a particular method of analysis and a particular object. In short, this book [The Fa ...

68 The Language of Fashion fashion clothing we have chosen, from the outset, ‘an homogenous level of description’, to which we h ...

[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 69 Whilst accepting to coexist with other pertinences, semiology (for that is the parti ...

70 The Language of Fashion (which of course do not have a monopoly on totality any more than it does). In other words, the perti ...

[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 71 wanted to observe in all its minuteness the way in which meaning functions within an ...

72 The Language of Fashion not, because of this, permanently removed from the history or society in which it operates).^14 There ...

[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 73 privileged object of semiological analysis as it does for three reasons. First, beca ...

74 The Language of Fashion recommended, by the stated aim of the research, which is to establish a formal system and not to desc ...

[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 75 homogenous units. So all the notations which could imply any finality other than mea ...

76 The Language of Fashion the real, has perhaps led to a nominalism which was never defensible. So there would be fears that th ...

[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 77 however this debate over whether clothing signifies or not does not appear in the fi ...

78 The Language of Fashion 14 Beliefs and ideologies point to the intelligible in which they participate, not through what they ...

[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 79 terminology) and more generally intuition seemed difficult to disassociate from a re ...

Fashion is changing. Short skirts, loud colours, boys in long shirts and girls in trousers. Women’s liberation? Loss of male vir ...

Fashion, a Strategy of Desire 81 and conformity. So there is a paradox here which cannot but hold the attention of sociologists. ...

82 The Language of Fashion peoples, for whom wearing a dress is a sign of authority. In modern Western civilization, the super-E ...

Fashion, a Strategy of Desire 83 RB: In reality fashion is never functional, never utilitarian. If women bought dresses only whe ...