People’s Choice Award Public voting open until 7 May
[22 April 2020, Hong Kong] – The Redress Design Award announces the semi-finalists in its 10th anniversary cycle, hand-selected from entries from across the globe by expert regional judges. The 32 talented designers – separated, for the first time into menswear and womenswear categories – represent the future of the fashion industry, ready to apply their skills to solving the fashion crisis and shifting the $2.4 billion(1) industry towards a circular economy. The Redress Design Award provides emerging designers with a platform to demonstrate solutions to tackle the fashion crisis with a focus on textile waste. Public voting has opened for the People’s Choice award with one out of the 32 rising sustainable designers to be presented with this accolade.
Christina Dean, Redress Founder and Board Chair, says, “Fashion needs to wake up, reinvent itself and get with the times. COVID-19 has shattered the fashion system, from broken supply chains to near flat-lining of consumption, and we are now forced to reevaluate our consumption desires, which will shake up the fashion of tomorrow. Fashion's global waste crisis, and its effect on climate impact, will live on way beyond this COVID-19 crisis and so it is vital that emerging designers continue fighting for a better fashion world.”