The Language of Fashion (Hardcover)

Contents Preface Part I. Clothing History 1. History and Sociology of Clothing. Some Methodological Observations 2. Language and Clothing 3. Towards A Sociology of Dress Part II. Systems and Structures 4. Blue is in Fashion This Year 5. From Gemstones to Jewellery 6. Dandyism and Fashion 7. [An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 8. Fashion, A Strategy of Desire (round-table discussion with Jean Duvignaud and Henri Lefebvre) 9. Fashion and the Social Sciences (interview) 10. On The Fashion System (interview) Part III. Fashion Debates and Interpretations 11. The Contest between Chanel and Courrges. Refereed by a Philosopher 12. A Case of Cultural Criticism 13. Showing How Rhetoric Works Clothes, Fashion and System in the writings of Roland Barthes: Something out of Nothing by Andy Stafford Editors Note and Acknowledgements Bibliography Glossary of Names Index