Art Monthly Australia August 2006 Issue 192, Page 35
By Lilianna
If you came across an article about fashion in an art magazine, someone creative such as John Galliano immediately springs to mind - who in a sense creates live installations in his haute couture catwalk shows… but unfortunately not the case in the article by Peter McNeil.
The article compares Roland Barthes’s The Language of Fashion to his original The Fashion System, 1967, where English translations are made of Barthes’s writings on fashion. In this new book translations are made of Barthes’s other fashion writings.
The review is written in a complex language and is therefore very difficult to read. After reading this review, I am not inspired to read this book. I feel that it is for fashion theorists rather than fashion lovers such as myself.
If you came across an article about fashion in an art magazine, someone creative such as John Galliano immediately springs to mind - who in a sense creates live installations in his haute couture catwalk shows… but unfortunately not the case in the article by Peter McNeil.
The article compares Roland Barthes’s The Language of Fashion to his original The Fashion System, 1967, where English translations are made of Barthes’s writings on fashion. In this new book translations are made of Barthes’s other fashion writings.
The review is written in a complex language and is therefore very difficult to read. After reading this review, I am not inspired to read this book. I feel that it is for fashion theorists rather than fashion lovers such as myself.
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