Congratulations are in order for Eric Wong on winning this year's Alumni Prize! In collaboration with our partner Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong, he took on the challenge of reimagining their used airbag waste fabric into two upcycled showpieces.
This year Redress is partnering with the venerable Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong to exhibit designs from Alumni of the Redress Design Award, hosted as part of their 60th anniversary celebration series and featuring six emerging sustainable designers from Hong Kong, Brazil, India, and Taiwan.
Explore how the Redress Design Award 2022 international finalists transform textile waste into high fashion, and discover exciting emerging sustainable brands from competition alumni. Come see the designs up close and virtually try them on with AR filters!
As part of the upcoming CENTRESTAGE Asia’s Fashion Spotlight event at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Redress is presenting six fantastic emerging sustainable brands from our Redress Design Award alumni at a dedicated booth from 9–11 September 2022. Collections include womenswear, menswear, and even baby slings and wraps.
Experience the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition as the next generation of talents vie for career-changing prizes! Our Grand Final runway event will unveil the innovative looks crafted by our finalists and offer a glimpse at exciting emerging alumni brands. Don’t miss this significant moment in fashion!
11 - 18 February 2022
As the Redress Design Award 2022 competition has launched, we are hosting our Student Academy Week from 11 to 18 February 2022 - eight days of interactive activities to explore circular fashion design strategies, held in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
10 November - 6 December 2020
The achievements of the Redress Design Award’s 10th cycle finalists and Alumni All Stars will be celebrated in an exhibition, opening on 20 November at THE FOREST, in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. a Hong Kong hub of outdoor living that fosters a sustainable environment surrounded by greenery.
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.
4 September - 11 November 2020
Redress have partnered with Galeries Lafayette to mark a decade of impact with a showcase of the Redress Design Award All Stars with leading competition alumni demonstrating outstanding sustainable achievement. The showcase forms part of Galeries Lafayette’s ‘Fashioning Change, Today and Tomorrow’ campaign, focusing on collective creativity, bringing people together and initiating lasting conversations that can inspire actions for the future of fashion and responsible lifestyles.
3 September 2020
You are invited to witness the Redress Design Award 2020 Grand Final, presented in an exciting live-digital format! Join us as we showcase the stunning waste-reducing womenswear and menswear collections that have made it to the finals; glimpse behind-the-scenes snippets of the grueling judging process; and connect live with the finalists when we reveal the winners of the 10th anniversary cycle of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition!
1 June - 31 July 2020
The world's largest sustainable fashion design competition, the Redress Design Award, works to educate emerging fashion designers around the world about sustainable fashion design theories and techniques. Since participating, many of the competition's alumni have gone on to establish successful careers in sustainable design.
On March 4th, Redress joined forces with Mustard and The R Collective for an event celebrating the third season of our award-winning Frontline Fashion documentary series, and the launch of Redress Design Award 2018 winner Tess Whitfort’s ‘Avoidance’ collection for The R Collective.
Be inspired about how the positive power of fashion can transform waste into want
Select garments from the eleven 2018 Redress Design Award Finalists’ collections are on display from 14–23 September at the Mercedes me Store, as part of HKTDC’s ‘Hong Kong in Fashion’ – a month-long city wide campaign promoting fashion, trends and creativity at various trendsetting hotspots.
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.
Along with the Redress Design Award 2018 Grand Final at HKTDC’s CENTRESTAGE Redress are also celebrating our alumni designers from the previous seven cycles of the competition: From 5-8 September, we will be presenting six sustainable alumni brands - Pat Guzik, Angus Tsui, Artisan (designed by David Lee), Absurd Laboratory (designed by Eric Wong), Classics Anew (designed by Janko Lam) and The R Collective (designed by Lia Kassif), which will be on display in Hall 3B.
We have been celebrating the successes of our Redress Design Award Alumni across the world more and more of late with these stars of sustainability proving that there is no stopping positive change in fashion through collaborations, awards won and high profile exhibitions. So when Runway Asia approached us to help select style with substance for their annual runway event, we jumped at the chance to recommend our talented alumni. In fact, 8 of the 9 Hong Kong brands showcased during this glamour filled event were our alumni and included Classics Anew, Artisan Angus Tsui, Tiffany Pattinson, Alex Leau, Absurd Laboratory and newly launched Seer, as well as The R Collective (designed by alumni Kévin Germanier and Victor Chu). They showed alongside local sustainable fashion brand LaMy Dragonfly bringing positive fashion options to a packed audience, and we think they looked pretty dapper!
We gathered our Hong Kong Redress Design Award Alumni together at The Hive Studios last month for a networking event with a twist...
Join us for a night of fashion at The Hive Sai Kung, Hong Kong on 24th May! There will be a sustainable fashion pop-up and a screening of documentary, Frontline Fashion 2 followed by a Q&A session with Executive Producer of Mustard Collective Lindsay Robertson and Redress Executive Director Anneleise Smillie, who will share their behind-the-scenes stories.
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.
Adjoined by a commitment to craftsmanship and sustainability, EAST, Hong Kong joins hands with Redress, featuring Angus Tsui, a local fashion designer and Redress Design Award alumni, to co-present “The Art of Eco Couture” exhibition, which hopes to raise public awareness towards textile waste through art. Redress is a Hong Kong-based environmental NGO that strives to reduce textile waste in the fashion industry through a series of dynamic programmes.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalist's collections will be exhibited Songshan Cultural and Creative Park from 16th - 19th November as part of Taipei IN Style.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalist's collections will be exhibited in Amsterdam in the Fashion For Good Experience Centre from 2nd November - 24th December.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalist's collections will be exhibited at Shanghai's National Exhibition and Convention Centre from 11th - 13th October as part of the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalists’ work, plus our Hong Kong Best winner will be exhibited at Hysan Place, Hong Kong from 5th - 14th October.
EcoChic Design Award 2017 first prize winner, Kate Morris, will have her winning collection feature prominently in an installation at Asia's leading iconic luxury department store, Lane Crawford.
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.
In recognition of the continued success and progress of talented designers who have participated in previous cycles of the EcoChic Design Award over its seven year history, as part of the EcoChic Design Award 2017 grand final week’s activities, Redress is presenting select alumni sustainable brands, demonstrating the competition’s broader impact.
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 Miele Consumer Care Challenge took our 10 EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalists on an exploratory journey into the depths of secondhand clothing bins located around Hong Kong to discover the missed potential of discarded clothes. Our 10 finalists explored how fashion designers influence a garment’s sustainability, usability and recyclability at the design stage, and were challenged to apply strategies of care, maintenance and redesign to discarded garments to bring them back to life into a show-stopping outfit in just 4 hours. They worked collaboratively with their own ‘muses’, Kate Tsui and Kayla Wong, demonstrating that with the help of Miele quality appliances, considered clothing care and creativity can keep clothes in the fashion loop for longer. The most outstanding outfit was awarded to team A, consisting of Candle Ray Torreverde, Ayako Yoshida, Kate Morris, Joëlle van de Pavert and Claire Dartigues.
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.
