The topic of ESG investment has received a lot of attention in recent years and investors are more empowered than ever by knowing that their financial decisions can impact the future positively. Through investing in and supporting companies that are environmentally sound, socially responsible, and governance focused, investors can yield better long-term returns as well as effect social change. Yet how does it translate for companies to put it into actual practice? What are the philosophies behind these companies’ operations? What challenges do these companies face when implementing ESG initiatives?

16 January 2021

Run in partnership with Tommy Hilfiger you are invited to attend an exclusive upcycling workshop via Facebook Live. Join Redress Design Award Alumna designer, Jesse Lee, and sustainable fashion advocate, Kayla Wong, to learn how to turn an old and unwanted t-shirt into a fun tote bag with just a few snips and some clever tying techniques!

29 October 2020

This year’s ReThink event will feature Kay Liu, Redress’ Circular Fashion Programme Director, speaking on a panel discussion on the topic ‘Circular Economy: from inspiration to implementation’ alongside other industry experts on how organisations are introducing circular economy thinking into their operations.

21 October 2020

Redress Founder Christina Dean will be speaking at this month’s Lynk Speaker Session around the topic of ‘Eco Investing: Sustainable Fashion in a Circular Economy’.

8 October 2020

Join this important online discussion with Redress Founder, Christina Dean, Gloria Yu, designer, content creator and sustainability advocate, and Aamir Sakhia, COO, Lane Crawford, where they will take your questions and discuss the results of Hong Kong’s fashion consumption survey, asking: what is the future for sustainability in Hong Kong post-COVID-19?

25 September 2020

Join us at our Fashion Summit panel discussion topic on ‘How Craftsmanship Combines with Design’, moderated by Redress’ Education Senior Manager, Morgane Parizot.

Design for Recyclability: Can the intimates sector reach circularity?

Circularity is the buzz word of the fashion industry, but achieving it can seem like a quest for the holy grail. This panel will explore how realistic circularity is for the intimates sector, and look at the challenges and opportunities for both extending the life of garments and increasing end of life recovery for recycling, through the lens of decision making in design.

Saving the Planet

Can any one designer or company effect real 'change for better' for people, planet and profit, in an industry notorious for fast fashion but slow ethical transformation? And what happens when individuals become a collective, and become a global movement?

4-5pm, 25 October 2018, Online

Supply chain transparency is a major factor in the identification of potential risks or adverse impacts on the environment and social responsibility. In this webinar, co-hosted with SGS, we share the latest sustainability trends and concerns of the fashion industry.

6.30pm, 17 October 2018, at STUDIO CLUB, 1 On Hing Terrace, Hong Kong

Our friends at Green is the New Black Asia are hosting a discussion with thought leaders, tech entrepreneurs, and fashion experts decreasing the negative impact of the fashion industry.

Redress’ Education Director, Kay Liu was invited to present at Interfilière Shanghai on 27 September 2018 where she gave a talk named ‘Undressing Waste’s Issues’.

Smart Fashion Runway, initiated by PMQ, is a creative program for Hong Kong fashion designers to showcase their talents to industry experts and the general public, through engaging them in innovations and new trends.

Our Education Director Kay Liu will join the Design Dialogue led by Vivianne Lau (Smart Fashion Runway) with Kay Wong (Co-founder of Fashion Clinic), Johanna Ho (Co-founder of Phvlo), Denise Ho (Consultant of The R Collective) on the developments, opportunities and challenges in fashion industry from different perspectives under the theme of 'Fashion conscious | Conscious fashion' on 8 September, 2-4 pm.

Join us front row for the Grand Final of the Redress Design Award 2018 - the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition - where we will showcase striking, waste-reducing collections from exceptional emerging sustainable design talents across the world and announce the winners! Representing 11 different regions across the world including Hong Kong, India and the UK, and transforming waste in innovative ways, these designers represent a new future for fashion.

We gathered our Hong Kong Redress Design Award Alumni together at The Hive Studios last month for a networking event with a twist...

We were joined by a buzzing crowd at Metta, Hong Kong this March for the VIP screening of Frontline Fashion 2, the second edition of Redress’ documentary series following talented emerging fashion designers - finalists of the world’s biggest sustainable fashion design competition, the Redress Design Award. A special thanks to the sponsors for the event which included Metta, Wall Street Journal, Peroni, KMS and John Masters Organics.

Redress has curated the EcoChic Design Award 2017 Grand Final week to offer the 10 competition finalists a rich, exciting learning journey, inspiring and enabling them to positively contribute to a circular economy for fashion in their future careers.

The Redress x TAL Apparel Design to manufacturing challenge took our EcoChic Design Award finalists on a visit to one of the world’s largest shirt manufacturers, TAL Apparel, located in the heart of Southern China’s expansive manufacturing region. Here they learned how this shirt manufacturer manages its environmentally conscious business ethics in order to reduce textile, energy and water waste throughout the shirt production process. Our finalists explored the importance of a symbiotic partnership between designers and manufacturers and got hands-on experience of how sustainable practices can be applied along the entire supply chain, before being challenged to come up with strategies to bring the manufacturing process closer to designers thinking to minimise the impact of new garments. Team A won the challenge, consisting of Ayako Yoshida, Kate Morris, Joëlle van de Pavert, Claire Dartigues and semi-finalist Gao Qing Zi.

The Redress x Cathay Pacific Reconstruction Challenge took our 10 EcoChic Design Award finalists on a journey to explore solutions for the redirection of corporate uniform waste back into use. As emerging fashion designers, they are in a unique position to bring new ideas and creativity to a vast ongoing waste issue. Working in groups of two, finalists had three hours to develop an idea to reconstruct Cathay Pacific’s retired uniforms back into a new product. The resulting proto-types, which were made with mass production by local social enterprise in mind, were presented to a panel of judges who decided which team had shown the most promising solution to incorporate the airline’s valuable textile resources back into use. The winners were Kate Morris and Ayako Yoshida with their stylish travel pouch incorporating original features of pocket and gold lapels to enable easier production. 

The Hong Kong Government are working towards their target to reduce per capita carbon emissions to 3.3 - 3.8 tonnes by 2030. To promote positive change, this month the Environmental Protection Department hosted Hong Kong’s first ever Zero Carbon Fun Fair to celebrate World Environment Day and raise awareness of how to live more low-carbon lifestyles with help from 40+ government groups, NGOs, schools and services. Redress were invited to dress the officiating guests, including Secretary for the Environment K.S. Wong for a fashion show. We recruited the help of Make Your Wardrobe Work’s Sheryl Bolden to select designs from our rich pool of Hong Kong grown alumni which included David Lee (Artisan), Janko Lam (Classics Anew) and Angus Tsui showing attendees that sustainable fashion fits all!