Industrial Arts

Industrial Arts

The semiotics of women's clothing in "Dar Chashm-e Baad" series based on the opinions of Roland Barthes

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Master in Fabric and Clothing Design, Kamal-ul-Mulk Institute of Higher Education, Nowshahr, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Iqbal Lahori Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran, (corresponding author).
Abstract
As one of the most prominent theorists in the field of culture, Roland Barthes proposed and studied the clothing system. As a symbolic system, the clothing system has many elements that have a specific function for conveying concepts. This system plays a significant role in describing the states and moods of people, social classes, climate, ethnicity, and social identity. In the film and series production industry, they use this element as a sign for characterization in the film and to make the actor's role better seen. The current research tries to analyze and examine the  women's clothes in the series «Dar Cheshm-e Baad” (In the Eyes of the Wind) as a sign from the perspective of Roland Barthes. The research method is descriptive and analytical, and the necessary and required information has been collected with a library method. The obtained results show that the design of clothes has a significant role with a set of symbolic codes and sign elements that include form, shape, volume, texture, design, color, material, and fabric. There is a description of women’s cultural, social, and political position in the stated series aligned with the story’s narrative course and the actors’ acting.
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