Gathering images and texts regarding the semiotics of clothing in the context of Interculturality
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The English gentleman vs Ribnovo wedding tradition -
is it even possible to compare?
Are the two so removed from each other that it is useless to explore?
How much importance am I putting on 'visuals' without analysing the context?? Should I compare weddings instead??
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Started an Idea Flip board - categorising the systems and attaching visuals to them
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Trying to build a visual vocabulary of clothing/semiotic signs -
TO READ :
Barthes - The Fashion System
Boudrillard
Handbook of Semiotics
Mary Douglas - The World of Goods
Caroline Evans - YESTERDAY'S EMBLEMS AND TOMORROW'S COMMODITIES : The return of the repressed in fashion imagery today
Saussure
FIRST DRAFT
Breaking down the semiotics and visual communication signs into two sides - BG + UK
This will help with the analysis
Once I have everything categorised, I can play and mix up the meanings, for the new vocabulary to emerge
SYSTEMS THINKING
Geographical
Political
Historical
Education
Economy
Tradition
Religion / Spirituality / Beliefs
Language
Art
Focus on semiotic theory - all theoreticians are Western focused - how does this apply to Bulgarian context in my formative years?
British archetypes - Luella book - Bulgarian archetypes - what exists? How do they compare?
