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!

A more sustainable fashion system; is digital disruption fuelling positive change?

The digital space is disrupting the way the fashion supply chain – which contributes to the second biggest polluting industry in the world – communicates. Some players are now using digital technology to their advantage as they build more sustainable businesses whilst reducing waste, as they seek to cut out traditional road blocks that lead to clunky and often complex supply chains, and waste in the production process.

Can circular business models be a solution for the fashion industry’s textile waste?

The fashion and textile industry is the second most polluting industry in the world behind oil. As the depletion of natural resources prevails and the cost of virgin materials continues to show volatility, the current linear model of ‘take, make, waste’ is no longer a sustainable business option for the fashion industry to remain competitive.

E-commerce is a booming market and customers around the world are increasingly walking away from shops and consuming from the comfort of their homes with the convenience of their phones. 

This free-to-attend one-day educational event provided industry professionals and fashion students with the inspiration, information and tools to implement sustainable practices into their design and business activities. The forum’s Master classes and Keynotes gave participants the opportunity to learn from the world’s thought-leaders and experts in the fields of sustainability in fashion design, sourcing, marketing and business. 

We collaborated with Esprit, our The EcoChic Design Award 2011 retail partner, on the ‘Recycled Collection by Esprit’. This was designed by Janko Lam and was retailed in Hong Kong.

‘Behind the Seams’ of British sustainable fashion explored the UK’s groundbreaking sustainable fashion scene at an evening seminar and cocktail reception organized in partnership with the British Council on 16 November 2011.

We worked with celebrity Carrie Lam and The EcoChic Design Award Hong Kong 2011 Winner, Janko Lam, on a consumer focused sustainable fashion workshop at E-max shopping mall. During this, designer Janko reconstructed Carrie’s pre-worn and pre-loved secondhand clothing into ‘new’ pieces to educate and inspire the live audience.

Our EcoChic Asia was a successful sustainable fashion show containing 29 Asian fashion and accessory designers from 14 Asian countries that celebrated Asia’s developing sustainable fashion scene to an influential industry audience at Interstoff Asia Essential.

We presented The EcoChic Singapore Exhibition, containing 10 sustainable couture garments to educate consumers in one of Singapore’s prominent shopping malls, Suntec City Mall.

We organised the highly-acclaimed EcoChic Geneva, in partnership with The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The fashion show featured 52 prominent fashion designers from 40 countries who united on the catwalk at the Palais des Nations, home of the United Nations Office in Geneva. The designers’ inspiring garments demonstrated various biodiversity-conserving materials to an influential audience.

We organized EcoChic Jakarta Fashion Show which contained 15 of Indonesia’s influential designers and eight Hong Kong designers at the Four Seasons Hotel in Jakarta. The fashion show demonstrated various one-off symbolic sustainable and recycled fashion pieces to raise awareness about environmental sustainability.

We presented our EcoChic Shanghai fashion show featuring 40 designers, including a groundbreaking 13 Chinese designers, at ‘1933′, a revitalised Art Deco building in downtown Shanghai. Our fashion show demonstrated a wide range of sustainable fashion techniques, many of which were new concepts to our Chinese audience