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

From the moment we are born, we are coated with rich bacteria that protects us from life-threatening pathogens and this becomes the basis of our own unique microbiome which will shape our future health.

Our focus this month in the Trend Atelier Community has been “Wellness everything” as part of 2021's theme for the Trend Atelier community: "The biggest innovation is philosophical". As we were preparing for this month and trying to get the the bottom of what we truly believe Wellness is all about, syntropic farming is something that came to mind, a system created by Ernst Gotsch.