Table of Contents:
  • Clothing history
  • History and sociology of clothing : some methodological observations
  • Language and clothing
  • Towards sociology of dress
  • Systems and structures
  • Blue is in fashion this year : a not on research in signifying units in fashion clothing
  • From gemstones to jewellery
  • Dandyism and fashion
  • [An early preface to] The fashion system
  • Fashion, a strategy of desire : round-table discussion with Jean Duvignaud and Henri Lefebvre
  • Fashion and the social sciences (interview)
  • On the fashion system (interview)
  • Fashion debates and interpretations
  • The contest between Chanel and Courrαeges : refereed by a philosopher
  • A case of cultural criticism
  • Showing how rhetoric works
  • Clothes, fashion and system in the writings of Roland Barthes "something out of nothing" / by Andy Stafford.