Redress is pleased to announce the launch of our mission-critical report ‘Hong Kong’s Clothing Waste: Local Challenges and Opportunities’, supported by The VF Foundation, uncovering the scale of the city’s textile waste crisis while proposing innovative solutions to transform non-wearable clothing from landfill to valuable resources.
Shout-out to everyone who participated in our citywide clothing consumer campaign to make fashion circular! Throughout the month of May, we invited the public to give new life to unwanted clothes via 120+ clothing drive locations across Hong Kong. Then in June, we welcomed over 600 of you to our Sort-a-thon to sort through 17.9 tonnes of collected clothing for redistribution to local charities, resale, or responsible downcycling.
To support our mission in educating emerging fashion designers to drive the change toward a circular fashion industry, over the past few months, Redress has been hosting educational experiences for Hong Kong students from all backgrounds to discover firsthand how the fashion industry operates, from fabric to finished product.
This April on Earth Day, Redress Alum, Federico Badini Confalonieri’s collaboration with VF Corporation’s Timberland was launched. The collection is a result of Federico’s win of the Redress Design Award 2022. The jacket and shorts set designed by Federico are made from 100% recycled nylon, and are garment dyed featuring subtle colour variations that make each piece unique.
We are excited to announce our new partnership with Lululemon, now hosting our clothing takeback collection boxes at four of their stores across Hong Kong from now until 31 August 2025. Come drop off your unwanted clothes for redistribution to charities, resale, or responsible downcycling at these Lululemon stores.
Our valued Redress Design Award prize sponsor Bloomsbury Publishing is offering an exclusive 25% discount for all fashion titles in their extensive repository of resources for fashion professionals, with books about everything from circular design strategies to sustainability trends over time and much more.
Redress is excited to announce the latest milestone for our Redress Design Award 2023 winner, Nils Hauser, whose collaboration with the Tokyo Design Collective (TDC) has resulted in a standout graphic T-shirt. Nils’ limited edition design, which dropped last week in Japan, will be available to consumers in the APAC region, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan.
We were honoured to gather brilliant industry leaders at two events this past week in Shanghai and Hong Kong to celebrate the monumental 15th cycle of the Redress Design Award, and to investigate what the fashion industry urgently needs to address. Exploring the intersection of culture, fashion, and sustainability, our thought and action-provoking conversations included:
Redress Alum, Micaela Clubourg was awarded the Redress Design Award Alumni Prize in partnership with Delta Global in 2024, winning the opportunity to visit the Delta Global head office in the UK, and receive packaging support for her brand, Studio Cumbre.
