Our journey
Redress has been working to inspire positive change in the fashion industry for over a decade. Take a look at some of our highlights throughout the years.
2023
We launched our first industry report supported by the VF Foundation investigating the role, influence, and opportunity for circular fashion designers.
We officially signed a memorandum of understanding with the Shenzhen Garment Industry Association (SGIA), organisers of Shenzhen Fashion Week.
We hosted our first ever Wear Secondhand Day in October, inviting the public to raise awareness for the fashion waste crisis and donate to Redress.
We kicked off our Get Redressed School Ambassadors Programme, training students to promote circular fashion in school.
2022
In partnership with ECF, Yoyo and the World’s Coolest T-shirt, a children’s comic book about transforming fashion waste, is published. We also launch ‘Our Jeans and the Planet’, an interactive site that goes behind the scenes into the manufacturing of the ultimate wardrobe staple: a pair of jeans.
In addition, we unveil new improvements to the Redress Academy, our free multilingual online resource with in-depth content on circular fashion design topics.
A new ‘Rising Talents’ programme is also launched for stand-out applicants of the Redress Design Award to enhance their circular fashion skills and techniques.
2021
Forging partnerships with leading fashion retailers, Redress turns its Takeback Programme long-term with over 20 clothing collection boxes across various retail locations across Hong Kong.
The Redress Closet, our very own permanent secondhand clothing store, opens in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. The shop offers a curated selection of quality goods at accessible prices, encouraging consumers to give secondhand a try.
2020
We launch our Pathway Course to provide deeper knowledge on circular fashion design for applicants of the Redress Design Award, which celebrates 10 years.
For the first time, our Redress Design Award Grand Final Show is hosted in a new live-digital format.
Dress [with] Sense launches in Russian.
In partnership with the Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF) and the Environmental Campaign Committee, we launch our ECF Circular Fashion Education Toolkit to equip primary and secondary students and teachers with interactive resources for understanding sustainability issues in fashion.
2019
For our second Get Redressed Month, we expand our influence with the creation of a school resources pack and online resource hub.
2018
The EcoChic Design Award is rebranded to the Redress Design Award. The competition also expands to accept applications worldwide.
Dress [with] Sense launches in Korean.
We launch our first Get Redressed Month, an annual consumer campaign for the Hong Kong public to discover more conscious choices about clothing consumption.
2017
Redress celebrates 10 years working to create positive change in the fashion industry.
Our first consumer book, Dress [with] Sense, is published by Thames & Hudson in English and French.
Redress Founder, Christina Dean makes the bold decision to start The R Collective, a social impact business creating affordable upcycled luxury fashion, that collaborates with Redress alumni designers on capsule collections for retail.
2016
Our partner Shanghai Tang retails their inaugural upcycled collection in their flagship stores, designed by the EcoChic Design Award 2015/16 winner.
The first episode of ‘Frontline Fashion’, our TV docu-series, broadcasts on Fashion One.
2015
The EcoChic Design Award opens to all of Asia and Europe, making it the biggest sustainable design competition in the world.
Redress is featured in the ground-breaking documentary on the dark side of fast fashion “The True Cost”.
Our ‘Y Waste’ exhibition invites audiences to fundamentally question their relationship with clothing. We also expand our Keep Caring Clothing Drive in partnership with Miele.
2014
The EcoChic Design Award takes a giant leap to include eight regions in Asia and Europe, with Ford Motor Company and Shanghai Tang joining the sponsorship family.
Redress Founder, Christina Dean gives her TEDx talk “You Are What You Wear” to engage consumers, whilst our #GetRedressed social media campaign attracts supporters around the world.
2013
Redress Founder, Christina Dean wears only dumped secondhand clothes for 365 days as our mission grabs media headlines around the world.
We start our long-term consumer education partnership of workshops and secondhand pop-up shops with PizzaExpress Hong Kong.
Two lines of the Recycled Collection by Esprit retail, each designed by our EcoChic Design Award winners. Our R Cert recycled textile standard expands its footprint alongside Esprit’s collection in the Asia Pacific region to aid transparency in recycling.
2012
Our first EcoChic Design Award winner designs the inaugural Recycled Collection by Esprit, which hits retail in Hong Kong.
Redress and the EcoChic Design Award expands in China with our extensive lecture series at universities. Our two Grand Final fashion shows storm Shanghai Fashion Week and Hong Kong Fashion Week.
We launch our used clothing collections, diverting unwanted clothes away from landfill.
2011
We launch the EcoChic Design Award (which later becomes the Redress Design Award), a sustainable fashion design competition for emerging designers in Hong Kong, with sponsors including Create Hong Kong and Esprit. Our first Redress Forum attracts top tier speakers, including representatives from Levi’s and the Hong Kong government.
We partner with leading Hong Kong fashion designers who transform dumped clothing waste into ‘new’ high-end designs that retail at Harvey Nichols Hong Kong.
Partnering with Miele, we build our 3% Mountain installation made from clothing waste.
2010
We partner with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on a sustainable fashion show, seminar, and exhibition at Geneva’s Palais de Nations.
Pioneers including EDUN and Lie Sang Bong join our runway and we entice high profile speakers from Gucci and Made-By. An exhibition trail ensues, taking in Milan and Singapore.
2009
‘EcoChic’ goes to Shanghai as we host China’s first big sustainable fashion show featuring Chinese designers.
2008
Our first ‘EcoChic’ fashion shows roll out in Jakarta and Hong Kong, boasting sustainable designs by the likes of Diane von Furstenberg and Barney Cheng, and drawing in partners including UBS and Tatler.
2007
Asia’s first environmental NGO focused on the fashion industry is founded by Christina Dean in Hong Kong.
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