# The Fashion System

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- Book: [The Fashion System](https://www.bookquiver.com/roland-barthes/the-fashion-system) ([The Fashion System.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roland-barthes/the-fashion-system.md))
- Authors: [Roland Barthes](https://www.bookquiver.com/roland-barthes)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-833-3
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2010-11-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a system of meaning and subjected it for the first time to semantic analysis. The Fashion System , published in France in 1967, is bold and imaginative. In his endeavour to confine his love, outrage and passion for fashion to a system, Barthes created a work of literature that is witty, humane, personal and enormously stimulating