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VALUES, WELLBEING & DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT: THE ENDURING POWER OF DRESS CODES
VALUES, WELLBEING & DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT: THE ENDURING POWER OF DRESS CODES

From the sumptuary laws of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, to our present day understanding of ‘power dressing’, dress codes have been created to promote or preserve authority, status and respect. More recently, this ‘code’ has also come to mean a way of “deciphering” our identity and what we communicate through our clothing. The dress codes likely to emerge from our post-COVID, climate-challenged, digital world will be different from anything we have experienced before, even developing their own form of agency as part of a totally new approach to how we value, use and wear clothing. - Essay by Susan Muncey

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2040: THE FUTURE OF DRESS CODES
2040: THE FUTURE OF DRESS CODES

Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Have you ever thought about the message your clothes send and how your environment shapes what you wear?

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SPECULATIVE & INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN: IN CONVERSATION WITH TINA GORJANC
SPECULATIVE & INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN: IN CONVERSATION WITH TINA GORJANC

In our new interview series we sit down with Tina Gorjanc, an interdisciplinary designer whose futuristic work sits at the cross roads of Speculative Design, Fashion, Science and Sustainability.

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