In celebration of Earth Week, The Redress Closet, our curated secondhand clothing shop, will be offering an even bigger selection of affordable preloved items! This limited-time event in April further empowers Hong Kongers to shop sustainably and reduce fashion waste by giving clothes a second life.
We’re so grateful to our partner CN Logistics for lifting our heavy loads — for two years now! We literally couldn't do it without them: CN Logistics collects, stores, and pre-sorts the clothing from our Hong Kong Takeback Programme so we can do the enormous job of finding the most sustainable destination for your unwanted clothing.
Our Redress Design Award alumni are supported in their careers even beyond the competition. 2020 Runner-up, Ruth Weerasinghe, recently had the opportunity to work with The R Collective, the social impact business that rescues, reuses, and recycles a wide range of excess materials, to design a backpack exclusively for UBS.
Through the Takeback Programme, Redress invites consumers to extend the life of their clothing with convenient drop-off locations, detailed sorting, and transparency around the whole process. With the programme expanding and more retailers interested in exploring takeback as a step in their circularity journey, we set out to gather information about the landscape in Hong Kong regarding consumer and retailer views on the reuse and resale of postconsumer clothing.
Our Get Redressed Month 2022 Impact Report is out now! Check out the highlights from our consumer campaign to reduce fashion waste in Hong Kong, involving a citywide clothing drive, large-scale Sort-a-thon clothes sorting event, and record-breaking secondhand pop-up shop.
In October, we hosted an upcycling challenge at the Redress warehouse as part of the 11th Sham Shui Po Youth Festival: “Thread of Creativity” Fashion Design Competition.
Winners were selected by a panel of four esteemed judges with industry experience: fashion designer Arto Wong, founder of Yi-Ming and design director Grace Choi, LifestyO co-founder Felix Lam, and Redress Board Member Anderson Lee.
The Redress Design Award 2023, the 13th cycle of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, is now open for applications! We urge emerging fashion designers globally with less than four years of experience in the fashion industry to showcase their skills in sustainable fashion design and compete for exciting prizes, including HK$80,000 (US$10,000) in development funding and a collaboration opportunity with VF Corporation.
The Redress Design Award 2023, the 13th cycle of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, kicked off with a VIP gathering of influential fashion leaders for an intimate dinner and discussion on 11 January.
Redress Founder, Christina Dean was invited to share insight with Kourtney Kardashian, as part of her journey into understanding fashion’s sustainability issues in her docu-series that is being released alongside her exclusive collection with boohoo, which includes recycled and upcycled vintage materials. Christina shares '‘In my interview, Kourtney and I focused on fashion and textile waste, which is a huge global crisis largely driven by unsustainable, over-consumption and under-utilisation of clothing.”….
Redress, the environmental NGO working to reduce fashion’s waste, has produced an editorial photoshoot offering a glimpse into the upcoming runway looks from the finalists of the Redress Design Award 2022, which will be showcased at the Grand Final Fashion Presentation on 7 September, to be held at ArtisTree in Hong Kong and livestreamed to the world.
This October, we’re running a series of fun and educational activities across Hong Kong for local and international schools, companies, and clubs, all focused on shifting attitudes about clothing consumption towards reducing fashion waste and the environmental impacts of our choices. Our events are available bilingually in English and/or Chinese.
Redress is pleased to announce that our Takeback Programme has resumed after a brief hiatus, and you can once again drop your unwanted clothes in one of our 25 conveniently-located collection boxes across Hong Kong for reuse and recycling.
