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— The Essence of Fashion Issue #41 S/S 2024

a violent sensation of time

essay by ROLAND BARTHES The french literary theorist, essayist, critic, and semiotician Roland Barthes gained renown as one of the few philosophers who addressed the subject of fashion. He wrote the fashion system (1967), a seminal work that helped establish the scientific method in the newly emerging linguistic field of semiology. If today you open […]

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The Essence of Fashion Issue #41 S/S 2024

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