The fashion system /
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.Description: xii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0520071778 (pbk.)
- Système de la mode. English
- 391/.0014 20
- GT521 .B313 1990
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | B 2430 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0012452 |
Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references.
The author discusses the language of the fashion magazine; the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion. He also gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine.