Paths from Representation to Social Metarepresentation of the Fashion Territory in France during World War II

Abstract

The research investigates the forms of social representation and meta-representation of the fashion sphere in France during the Second World War (1939–1945), based on an iconographic analysis of fashion magazines published under the Nazi occupation. Derived from a doctoral sandwich program between Brazil and France, the study aims to understand how fashion operated as a symbolic language of resistance, submission, and the construction of female identity in a context of ideological repression and political instability. The investigation is situated at the intersection of Information Science, History, Communication, and Fashion, adopting a transdisciplinary perspective focused on knowledge organization, with particular attention to the discursive production of images and their respective metadata as traces of social memory.