The Fashion System
There’s an alternate timeline where I figured out in high school how fascinating brains are, didn’t fuck around with an English major but studied biology as an undergraduate, didn’t fuck around like a...
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[T]he system of actual clothing is always the natural horizon which Fashion assumes in order to constitute its significations[.] From Roland Barthes’ introduction to his own The Fashion System, 1967
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Why does Fashion utter clothing so abundantly? Why does it interpose, between the object and its user, such a luxury of words (not to mention images), such a network of meaning? The reason is, of...
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Here Barthes is talking about the relationship with the picture of an article of clothing in a fashion magazine and the text that accompanies it; he refers to the text as “speech.” It also happens-...
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Uh oh I’m getting deeper into this and starting to realize that taking quotes from this kind of dense and self-contained text on semiotics out of context might become sort of incoherent. Like, to...
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