The world is awash with unwanted clothes; over 100 billion new garments* are produced every year; and around 70% of clothes will meet their (unnecessary!) fate in landfill or incineration. To transform this, we need to keep clothes in use for as long as possible by upping our knowledge of sustainable consumer care techniques like washing, repairing, altering and redesigning.
To encourage consumer participation in driving sustainability in fashion, we invited the public to have their say on which of the 30 Redress Design Award Semi-finalists could best influence the future of the industry. Among them, a fan favourite has emerged: Indian designer Pavneet Kaur is the Redress Design Award 2023 People’s Choice winner who is now fast-tracked to the Grand Final!
The Redress Design Award 2023 Semi-finalists are ready to be revealed! This year, we received applications from 46 countries and regions. Now the 30 hopeful designers, among the world’s best emerging talents at tackling fashion’s growing waste crisis, are waiting in the wings for you to cast your votes for the ‘People’s Choice Award’.
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.
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