The Language of Fashion

84 The Language of Fashion Le NO: Well, what is it going to be? RB: We will see, in clothes, the further attenuation of the diff ...

Fashion consists of imitating that which has first shown itself as inimitable. This mechanism, paradoxical at first glance, is a ...

86 The Language of Fashion form of clothing but rather is exclusively a question of rhythm, a question of rate in time. Fashion ...

Fashion and the Social Sciences 87 their right mind can establish the slightest link between a high waistline and the Consulate; ...

88 The Language of Fashion were dressed like adults, but using smaller models. Then we saw the appearance of clothing for childr ...

Fashion and the Social Sciences 89 link a shake-up of the rhythm to something happening in the history of contemporary civilizat ...

90 The Language of Fashion does not want to say by exhibiting symptoms and symbols. Clothing would in some way be analogous to t ...

Fashion and the Social Sciences 91 protection. It is an act of signification and therefore a profoundly social act right at the ...

F. Gaussen: The Fashion System presents itself as a ‘book on method’ with reference to semiology. Could you tell us what semiolo ...

On The Fashion System 93 create a certain anxiety because the image always has several meanings. It is for this reason that phot ...

94 The Language of Fashion course, being able to go any further, since the description of particular ideologies belongs to anoth ...

On The Fashion System 95 which are not allowed. If fashion appears to us to be unpredictable this is because we are using only a ...

96 The Language of Fashion with fashion. They may be simplistic in the way they describe what is going on in the depths of the h ...

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Chapter 11 The Contest between Chanel and Courrèges. Refereed by a Philosopher 1 If today you open a history of our literature, ...

100 The Language of Fashion credited with the mythical qualities of the absolute innovator: young, tempestuous, galvanic, virule ...

The Contest between Chanel and Courrèges 101 colour in them is white, the absolute new; this deliberately extreme youthful fashi ...

102 The Language of Fashion moscow—where she often goes—that Chanel has the best chance of being the most successful. There is h ...

The Contest between Chanel and Courrèges 103 domains of art, and in an infinite variety of forms; and if we now see it clearly b ...