Il senso della moda. Forme e significati dell'abbigliamento

A totally insane, wacky, uber-smart, poetic, at times hard to read, incredibly beautiful, slightly eccentric reading of the world of fashion through the eyes of one of the great readers as well as writer Roland Barthes. I want to give this book five stars, but four makes it more mysterious for some

I have no idea why nobody reads barthes anymore in anthropology. He's prettier than Foucault, less obtuse than Levi-Strauss and more current than Benjamin. I might one day teach this in a course on ethnographic method, if only to piss off the students. Thesis: Whatever fashion photography is, it is no Leggi tutto

I read this while doing research for my senior thesis and the arguments and ideas are thoughtful and insightful. My only issue with it is that it's almost impenetrable to anyone who might want to understand the ideas presented withouth having advanced degrees. I know plenty of people who would love

LOVE LOVE LOVE! It has a dry technicality that gives it an odd beauty. Much of the same meditations on surfaces, voids, and writing as in "Mythologies," but fewer exclamation points and more to the point. Oh, and it's also all about clothes.

Fondamentale per chiunque, come me, lavori nel meraviglioso mondo del abbigliamento.

Roland Barthes foi um dos primeiros acadêmicos a dar atenção à moda de forma de pesquisa ainda nos anos 1960, quando muitos de seus pares na academia consideravam esse um assunto frívolo e que não deveria ou precisava ser estudado. Barthes estabelece todo um sistema da moda, nomeando os mais diverso Leggi tutto

It doesn't matter how many times you read this book, it'll always be difficult. Whether it's for the writing, or for the ideas. It feels a bit outdated, obviously, but it's definitely a must-read for fashion students.