System of Fashion: Articles on the Semiotics of Culture

The book includes works by the outstanding French critic and cultural theorist Roland Barthes. «System of Fashion» is a monograph dedicated to the semiotics of fashion, its description in mass media, the translation of visual images into the language of verbal signs and social values. The publication also includes a number of articles by R. Barthes from the 1960s-1970s on the semiotics of culture.
It is intended for everyone studying the problems of cultural studies in general and semiotics in particular.