Bilingual, interactive content free for students and teachers
Consumers now buy 60% more clothes than they did 15 years ago [1], but behind this increased appetite lies a trail of waste and pollution, with an estimated 92 million tons of textile waste created annually from the fashion industry [2].
Our Circular Fashion Education Toolkit works to change this by inspiring the next generation with better ways forward. This spring, Redress launched three new online resources for primary and secondary students and educators to build their knowledge on sustainability in fashion.
With our interactive learning website ‘Our Jeans and the Planet’, you can explore behind the scenes into the manufacturing of the ultimate wardrobe staple: a pair of jeans! Take a virtual field trip through a world of 3D graphics to create your own pair of jeans and learn about the environmental impacts of each decision you make along the way.
Or flip open Yoyo and the World’s Coolest T-shirt, Hong Kong’s first educational comic book for kids about sustainable fashion. Whether through the physical copy, e-book, or read-along videos in English and Cantonese, students can follow along as schoolgirl Yoyo and her brother Kevin come up with ways to save a favourite, super-powered T-shirt from being thrown away.
You can find more ways to upcycle clothing with ‘Circular Fashion in Hong Kong’, a student-made educational video series exploring the current landscape of sustainable fashion in the city. The videos are full of compelling visuals, storytelling, statistics, and interviews to illustrate the issues within the local context.
In addition to the new resources, three ‘Circular Fashion Learning Modules’ explore key issues in the fashion industry, including overproduction and consumption, fashion pollution and waste, and sustainable fashion technologies.
Four sets of flexible teacher guidelines are also available to support educators in making use of the toolkit to share about sustainability in their curriculum across a wide range of subjects including social studies, language arts, maths, and more.
All these assets are part of Redress’ Circular Fashion Education Toolkit, a free education hub with fun and interactive educational resources about circular fashion. Created in partnership with Hong Kong’s Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF) and the Environmental Campaign Committee, the toolkit is designed for students and educators and available in both English and Chinese.
Schools are welcome to contact Redress to arrange a talk on using the toolkit, as well as reading sessions for Yoyo and the World’s Coolest T-shirt. If interested, please contact Corane Chu or fill out our online school inquiry form to arrange a session.
[1] Source: McKinsey Company (2016), Style that’s sustainable: A new fast-fashion formula
[2] Source: Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company, The State of Fashion 2020, New York, 2019, p. 54-55