TY - GEN AU - Barnard, Malcolm TI - Fashion as Communication SN - 9780415260183 U1 - 391 BAR PY - 2002/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Clothing and dress KW - Fashion N2 - What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways of communicating and challenging class, gender, sexual and social identities. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from Barthes and Baudrillard to Marxist, psychoanalytic and feminist theory, Barnard addresses the ambivalent status of fashion in contemporary culture ER -