The Tomorrow column comes out every month in print and in Japanese and reflects my shared interests with Spur Magazine and my editor Mari Fukuda, who have allowed me a platform to share ideas around the future of fashion. In this piece I share an overview of past issues on the following topics:

• Designing with AI

• The Future of Fashion is circular

• A generation sick of being sold perfection

• Upcycled Fashion as healing

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