[3 November 2023, Hong Kong] — Redress, the Hong Kong-headquartered, Asia-focused environmental NGO accelerating the change to a circular fashion industry by educating designers and consumers, releases their industry report on the role, influence, and opportunities for circular fashion designers. Supported by the VF Foundation, the report focuses on the fashion design stage in China and Southeast Asia, which produces approximately 60% of global exports of garments, textiles, and footwear.

[8 September 2023, Hong Kong] — Redress, the Hong Kong-headquartered, Asia-focused environmental NGO accelerating the change to a circular fashion industry, announced the winners of the Redress Design Award 2023. With Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the Lead Sponsor, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition concluded its 13th cycle at Hong Kong’s fashion spotlight event, CENTRESTAGE*, on 7 September. Winning First Prize.

[10 May 2023, Hong Kong] The Redress Design Award 2023 announces its 10 Finalists today, representing the top emerging sustainable fashion designers who have out-designed hundreds of applicants around the globe to reach this point. These 10 talents will compete head to head, showcasing their design-driven solutions to fashion’s waste problem, at the prestigious Grand Final Fashion Show in Hong Kong in September. 

[12 January 2023, Hong Kong] – Environmental NGO Redress officially opened the Redress Design Award 2023, the 13th cycle of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition at a prominent industry gathering in Hong Kong on 11 January, where local fashion industry leaders with significant global influence gathered for a cosy dinner and discussion to celebrate the launch.

[12 January 2023, Hong Kong] – Environmental NGO Redress opened the Redress Design Award 2023, the 13th cycle of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition at a prominent industry gathering in Hong Kong on 11 January, where fashion industry leaders with global influence gathered, just days after the resumption of normal travel between Hong Kong and the Mainland, to discuss the region’s opportunity to drive circular fashion globally.

[21 September 2022, Hong Kong] – Redress, the pioneering environmental NGO with a mission to educate and empower consumers and the fashion industry to reduce clothing’s negative environmental impact, is returning with its annual consumer campaign, Get Redressed Month, this October.

[9 March 2022, Hong Kong] - Grace Lant, a knit designer from Hong Kong and winner of the Redress Design Award Alumni Prize in partnership with Kipling in 2021, has reimagined its iconic ART M Bag using recycled content.

Kipling is celebrating their 30th anniversary by partnering with renowned female creatives like Grace to express their commitment to sustainability.

Launching in March 2022 in celebration of International Women’s Day, Grace’s Kipling ART M Bag breathes new life into VF deadstock fabrics. The choice to use pre-existing material reduces carbon footprint right from the design stage, where about 80% of a product’s environmental impact is determined.

World’s largest sustainable fashion design competition offers HK$80,000 (US$10,000) in funding as VF’s Timberland® unveils debut collection designed with Redress Design Award 2020 winner

[5 January 2022, Hong Kong] – It’s a banner month for leading Hong Kong-based environmental NGO Redress as it unveils plans for its Redress Design Award 2022, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, with Lead Sponsor Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. This is the 12th cycle of the Redress Design Award which invites aspiring designers globally to vie for HK$80,000 (US$10,000) in development funding and an exciting design collaboration with VF Corporation, a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories, and its Timberland® brand. Simultaneously, Timberland® is debuting the awaited sustainable Lunar New Year collection designed in collaboration with Vietnamese designer Le Ngoc Ha Thu who secured the opportunity as the winner of the Redress Design Award 2020 Menswear category.

Redress, the world-leading NGO working to reduce fashion’s waste, announces the winners of the Redress Design Award 2021, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition that urgently seeks to catalyse multiple micro-circular economies around the world to reduce fashion’s negative environmental impacts, following the Grand Final fashion show that featured real and virtual models that took place in Hong Kong on 11 September.

Environmental charity, Redress, releases a preview of never-before-seen runway looks from the Redress Design Award 2021 Finalists offering a glimpse of what will be showcased at the Grand Final Fashion Show on 11 September held in Hong Kong – and livestreamed to the world. The photoshoot, styled and shot by two leading Hong Kong creatives Kieran Ho and Karl Lam, is inspired by aesthetics of cyberspace with models set on a backdrop of gradient light, representing the ether of the virtual world. An exclusive extended version of the shoot where virtual and physical models meet will be showcased in the October 2021 edition of VOGUE Hong Kong.

Redress, the environmental NGO working to reduce fashion’s waste, announces the 10 Redress Design Award 2021 Finalists whose textile-waste-reducing designs catapulted them to become finalists of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, which is supported by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the lead sponsor. The finalists, shortlisted from over 550 applications received from 58 countries and regions, impressed the influential judges and will now bring their application concepts to life, ready for the grand final show on 11 September 2021 in Hong Kong, where the winners will be announced.

Hong Kongers can now shop the Redress Closet all year round! The Redress Closet, our new curated secondhand clothing and accessories shop is opening in Sham Shui Po to support our mission to reduce the city’s clothing waste. Join us for our Grand Opening weekend of Friday 14 - Sunday 16 May:

The Redress Design Award announces the semi-finalists of its 11th cycle – 30 talented sustainable designers from across the globe representing the future of fashion – and kicks off public voting today. This year, for the first time in the programme’s history, the public has been invited as an official judge to determine via online vote one designer from the semi-finalists to directly enter the final round of the competition. The winner of this People's Choice Award will present their collection at the Grand Final Show in September 2021, alongside nine other finalists to be selected by an international panel of expert judges.

Organised by environmental NGO Redress with Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the Lead Sponsor, the Redress Design Award propels its 11th cycle forward with the announcement of a partnership with VF Corp and its Timberland brand, known worldwide for its progressive authenticity and sustainable design, offering an exciting design collaboration to the First Prize winner.

Leading sustainability NGO Redress opened the highly anticipated 2021 cycle of the Redress Design Award, the renowned global sustainable fashion design competition, now in its 11th cycle. With lead sponsorship from Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Redress continues to propel collective effort to reduce global waste in the fashion industry. This cycle’s prizes include US$10,000 (HK$80,000) in development funding, and bespoke mentorships with world-renowned sustainable fashion experts.

Organised by environmental NGO Redress with Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the Lead Sponsor, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, the Redress Design Award proudly celebrates a decade of education to drive circularity in the fashion system with a report on its educational impact, including some 50,000 individuals reached through its activities across the years.

The Redress Design Award additionally kicks off its 2021 competition cycle with an exciting new edition of its Pathway Course, a two-week circular and sustainable fashion design curriculum free to all designers and now open for registration.