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Fashion is the art of expressing who you are without saying a word.
In her book Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes, Shadida Bari draws our attention to etymological concection between clothes and communication. The word ‘text’ is connected to ‘textile’ deriving from the Latin texere, to weave - ‘if you love language, you might find that you love clothes too.’ The aural resonance between a dress as a garment, and
... See moreCore Concepts Fashion as a System: Barthes views fashion not just as apparel, but as a structured system of communication akin to a language (a "metalanguage"). The actual garment belongs to the "vestimentary code" (the real object), but the descriptions and images in fashion magazines (the "written clothing" and "image-clothing") translate this... See more