Congratulations are in order for Eric Wong on winning this year's Alumni Prize! In collaboration with our partner Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong, he took on the challenge of reimagining their used airbag waste fabric into two upcycled showpieces.
The most popular event on the Redress calendar is returning this winter! Get ready to browse and buy our curated selection of quality secondhand items collected from the Get Redressed Clothing Drive for six days from 18–23 November.
As part of the upcoming CENTRESTAGE Asia’s Fashion Spotlight event at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Redress is presenting six fantastic emerging sustainable brands from our Redress Design Award alumni at a dedicated booth from 9–11 September 2022. Collections include womenswear, menswear, and even baby slings and wraps.
11 - 18 February 2022
As the Redress Design Award 2022 competition has launched, we are hosting our Student Academy Week from 11 to 18 February 2022 - eight days of interactive activities to explore circular fashion design strategies, held in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
16 January 2021
Run in partnership with Tommy Hilfiger you are invited to attend an exclusive upcycling workshop via Facebook Live. Join Redress Design Award Alumna designer, Jesse Lee, and sustainable fashion advocate, Kayla Wong, to learn how to turn an old and unwanted t-shirt into a fun tote bag with just a few snips and some clever tying techniques!
8 October 2020
Join this important online discussion with Redress Founder, Christina Dean, Gloria Yu, designer, content creator and sustainability advocate, and Aamir Sakhia, COO, Lane Crawford, where they will take your questions and discuss the results of Hong Kong’s fashion consumption survey, asking: what is the future for sustainability in Hong Kong post-COVID-19?
4 September - 11 November 2020
Redress have partnered with Galeries Lafayette to mark a decade of impact with a showcase of the Redress Design Award All Stars with leading competition alumni demonstrating outstanding sustainable achievement. The showcase forms part of Galeries Lafayette’s ‘Fashioning Change, Today and Tomorrow’ campaign, focusing on collective creativity, bringing people together and initiating lasting conversations that can inspire actions for the future of fashion and responsible lifestyles.
1 June - 31 July 2020
The world's largest sustainable fashion design competition, the Redress Design Award, works to educate emerging fashion designers around the world about sustainable fashion design theories and techniques. Since participating, many of the competition's alumni have gone on to establish successful careers in sustainable design.
Saving the Planet
Can any one designer or company effect real 'change for better' for people, planet and profit, in an industry notorious for fast fashion but slow ethical transformation? And what happens when individuals become a collective, and become a global movement?
On March 4th, Redress joined forces with Mustard and The R Collective for an event celebrating the third season of our award-winning Frontline Fashion documentary series, and the launch of Redress Design Award 2018 winner Tess Whitfort’s ‘Avoidance’ collection for The R Collective.
6.30pm, 17 October 2018, at STUDIO CLUB, 1 On Hing Terrace, Hong Kong
Our friends at Green is the New Black Asia are hosting a discussion with thought leaders, tech entrepreneurs, and fashion experts decreasing the negative impact of the fashion industry.
Be inspired about how the positive power of fashion can transform waste into want
Select garments from the eleven 2018 Redress Design Award Finalists’ collections are on display from 14–23 September at the Mercedes me Store, as part of HKTDC’s ‘Hong Kong in Fashion’ – a month-long city wide campaign promoting fashion, trends and creativity at various trendsetting hotspots.
Smart Fashion Runway, initiated by PMQ, is a creative program for Hong Kong fashion designers to showcase their talents to industry experts and the general public, through engaging them in innovations and new trends.
Our Education Director Kay Liu will join the Design Dialogue led by Vivianne Lau (Smart Fashion Runway) with Kay Wong (Co-founder of Fashion Clinic), Johanna Ho (Co-founder of Phvlo), Denise Ho (Consultant of The R Collective) on the developments, opportunities and challenges in fashion industry from different perspectives under the theme of 'Fashion conscious | Conscious fashion' on 8 September, 2-4 pm.
Join us front row for the Grand Final of the Redress Design Award 2018 - the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition - where we will showcase striking, waste-reducing collections from exceptional emerging sustainable design talents across the world and announce the winners! Representing 11 different regions across the world including Hong Kong, India and the UK, and transforming waste in innovative ways, these designers represent a new future for fashion.
Fashion Summit (HK), co-organised by Redress, is the largest summit on sustainability in fashion in Asia.
Held on 6–7 September 2018 this conference will bring together influential decision-makers in the Hong Kong fashion industry driving positive and sustainable change n the global fashion industry.
Along with the Redress Design Award 2018 Grand Final at HKTDC’s CENTRESTAGE Redress are also celebrating our alumni designers from the previous seven cycles of the competition: From 5-8 September, we will be presenting six sustainable alumni brands - Pat Guzik, Angus Tsui, Artisan (designed by David Lee), Absurd Laboratory (designed by Eric Wong), Classics Anew (designed by Janko Lam) and The R Collective (designed by Lia Kassif), which will be on display in Hall 3B.
We have been celebrating the successes of our Redress Design Award Alumni across the world more and more of late with these stars of sustainability proving that there is no stopping positive change in fashion through collaborations, awards won and high profile exhibitions. So when Runway Asia approached us to help select style with substance for their annual runway event, we jumped at the chance to recommend our talented alumni. In fact, 8 of the 9 Hong Kong brands showcased during this glamour filled event were our alumni and included Classics Anew, Artisan Angus Tsui, Tiffany Pattinson, Alex Leau, Absurd Laboratory and newly launched Seer, as well as The R Collective (designed by alumni Kévin Germanier and Victor Chu). They showed alongside local sustainable fashion brand LaMy Dragonfly bringing positive fashion options to a packed audience, and we think they looked pretty dapper!
We gathered our Hong Kong Redress Design Award Alumni together at The Hive Studios last month for a networking event with a twist...
Do you have a closet full of clothes but always feel like you have nothing to wear? Have you ever bought a piece of clothing, worn it once and then never again? Or maybe you never found an occasion to wear something you bought and the tag is still on? We think all these unwanted clothes in the back of your closet deserve a second life!
After two successful events in Spain and the US, Christy Chow, winner of Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2017 presents Second Life – a large-scale art installation in the form of a clothing exchange on 25 May at The Hive Sai Kung, Hong Kong.
Thanks to an introduction from our recent 10 for 10 campaign partner, John Masters Organics, we are delighted to be partnering with award-winning fashion designer Ranee K, by supplying discarded materials that were destined for landfill for her to transform into a collection of modern Qipao dresses.
The resulting collection will be on sale at the John Masters Organics Sun Street Pop-up Store from 2-22 May 2018 with up to 25% of the sales (depending on the percentage of textile waste used in each piece) being donated to Redress to support our critical work to cut waste out of fashion.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalist's collections will be exhibited Songshan Cultural and Creative Park from 16th - 19th November as part of Taipei IN Style.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalist's collections will be exhibited in Amsterdam in the Fashion For Good Experience Centre from 2nd November - 24th December.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalist's collections will be exhibited at Shanghai's National Exhibition and Convention Centre from 11th - 13th October as part of the Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics.
Select pieces from the EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalists’ work, plus our Hong Kong Best winner will be exhibited at Hysan Place, Hong Kong from 5th - 14th October.
EcoChic Design Award 2017 first prize winner, Kate Morris, will have her winning collection feature prominently in an installation at Asia's leading iconic luxury department store, Lane Crawford.
Redress has curated the EcoChic Design Award 2017 Grand Final week to offer the 10 competition finalists a rich, exciting learning journey, inspiring and enabling them to positively contribute to a circular economy for fashion in their future careers.
In recognition of the continued success and progress of talented designers who have participated in previous cycles of the EcoChic Design Award over its seven year history, as part of the EcoChic Design Award 2017 grand final week’s activities, Redress is presenting select alumni sustainable brands, demonstrating the competition’s broader impact.
The Redress x TAL Apparel Design to manufacturing challenge took our EcoChic Design Award finalists on a visit to one of the world’s largest shirt manufacturers, TAL Apparel, located in the heart of Southern China’s expansive manufacturing region. Here they learned how this shirt manufacturer manages its environmentally conscious business ethics in order to reduce textile, energy and water waste throughout the shirt production process. Our finalists explored the importance of a symbiotic partnership between designers and manufacturers and got hands-on experience of how sustainable practices can be applied along the entire supply chain, before being challenged to come up with strategies to bring the manufacturing process closer to designers thinking to minimise the impact of new garments. Team A won the challenge, consisting of Ayako Yoshida, Kate Morris, Joëlle van de Pavert, Claire Dartigues and semi-finalist Gao Qing Zi.
The Redress x Miele Consumer Care Challenge took our 10 EcoChic Design Award 2017 finalists on an exploratory journey into the depths of secondhand clothing bins located around Hong Kong to discover the missed potential of discarded clothes. Our 10 finalists explored how fashion designers influence a garment’s sustainability, usability and recyclability at the design stage, and were challenged to apply strategies of care, maintenance and redesign to discarded garments to bring them back to life into a show-stopping outfit in just 4 hours. They worked collaboratively with their own ‘muses’, Kate Tsui and Kayla Wong, demonstrating that with the help of Miele quality appliances, considered clothing care and creativity can keep clothes in the fashion loop for longer. The most outstanding outfit was awarded to team A, consisting of Candle Ray Torreverde, Ayako Yoshida, Kate Morris, Joëlle van de Pavert and Claire Dartigues.
The Redress x Cathay Pacific Reconstruction Challenge took our 10 EcoChic Design Award finalists on a journey to explore solutions for the redirection of corporate uniform waste back into use. As emerging fashion designers, they are in a unique position to bring new ideas and creativity to a vast ongoing waste issue. Working in groups of two, finalists had three hours to develop an idea to reconstruct Cathay Pacific’s retired uniforms back into a new product. The resulting proto-types, which were made with mass production by local social enterprise in mind, were presented to a panel of judges who decided which team had shown the most promising solution to incorporate the airline’s valuable textile resources back into use. The winners were Kate Morris and Ayako Yoshida with their stylish travel pouch incorporating original features of pocket and gold lapels to enable easier production.
