[21 August 2025, Hong Kong] – Redress, the environmental NGO with a mission to accelerate the shift to a circular fashion industry by empowering designers and consumers, marks its 15th Redress Design Award. The world’s leading sustainable fashion design competition, organised by Redress and with the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) as the Lead Sponsor, now calls on consumers worldwide to vote online here for their favourite Finalist, in the People’s Choice Award. 

Voting opened 19 August and runs until 2 September 2025, with the winner to be announced at the Grand Final Fashion Show in Hong Kong on 4 September. Ten lucky voters selected at random will receive a bar of luxury soap from Davines, and the designer who wins the People Choice Award will receive a digital copy of Bloomsbury book Clothing Alterations and Repairs: Maintaining a Sustainable Wardrobe, by Chelsey Byrd Lewallen.

For 15 cycles, the Redress Design Award has championed circular design as a solution to fashion’s waste crisis. This year, with 98% of consumers believing brands must drive positive change¹, the public’s voice is more critical than ever.

Fashion’s waste crisis remains staggering: every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or incinerated, while just 1% of clothing material is recycled into new garments². To combat this, the top 10 Finalists of 2025—selected from a global pool spanning 57 regions—have crafted standout collections from textile waste, transforming materials like discarded denim scraps, surplus industrial canvas and post-consumer knitwear into cutting-edge designs that redefine sustainable style.

“Fifteen years ago, we set out to prove that circular fashion isn’t just possible—it’s increasingly necessary. Today, our Finalists embody that vision, turning waste into commercially viable collections,” said Dr. Christina Dean, Founder and Board Chair, Redress. “Consumers and designers are co-creators of fashion’s future: designers create with purpose, and consumers vote with their attention and wallets. This People’s Choice Award lets you uplift the talent you believe will lead us forward.”

From Global Workrooms to Hong Kong Runways

The Finalists’ collections will be delivered to Hong Kong via Platinum Sponsor DHL Express, leveraging DHL’s GoGreen Plus service to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% through sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). This is enabled by the ‘book & claim’ approach. Book & claim enables DHL to directly replace fossil fuels with sustainable fuels within the logistic company’s network and allocate environmental benefits to paying customers, even when their shipments are not physically transported with the assets using these fuels. This effort aligns with Redress’ 15-year commitment to reducing fashion’s carbon footprint.

“We’re proud to support Redress’ 15th cycle, as we help bring these innovative collections that champion sustainable fashion to more communities,” said Andy Chiang, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, DHL Express Hong Kong and Macau. “Like us, Redress shares a common goal of reducing the industry’s carbon footprint for the benefit of our planet. GoGreen Plus goes beyond logistics; it reflects our commitment to supporting aspiring fashion designers from around the world, while minimising the environmental impact of the deliveries.”

Spotlight: The 2025 Editorial Photoshoot

With the Grand Final Show and judging of winners coming up in September,  a selection of the Finalists’ runway looks will first star in an exclusive editorial photoshoot, set to feature in Vogue Hong Kong and the Redress Design Award 2025 digital magazine. This year’s shoot will highlight how circular design has evolved—from experimental to essential—over Redress’ 15-year journey.

The Redress Design Award 2025 Photoshoot Credits

• Photography: Kim Lo, Nicole Kwok
• Creative Direction: Matthieu Amelin
• Models: Bonnie Chen Bi Ge, Angie Ng (Model One), Carson Lee (Self Management)
• Styling: Bhisan Rai
• Hair: Henry Tse (Davines Creative Collective Asia), Joyce Lo (Davines HK Advocate)
• Make-up: Cindy Lai, Bonnie Cheung, and Karen Yiu for MakeupBees
• Studio: KIMLO WORKSHOP
• Production: Ceejay Rivera, Serene Cheung
• Studio Manager: Ric Chow
• Retouchers: Kuco Chan, Eric Lam, Nicole Kwok
• Lighting: Eric Lam

Consumers: Beyond the Vote

Voting is just the start. Sustainably-minded fashion consumers can support Redress Alumni, many of whom have gone on to collaborate with global brands and launch independent labels, by exploring their work online. Discover beautiful products brought to life from textile waste by Redress Alumni designers available for purchase to support Redress here.

Find out who wins at the Grand Final Show

The People’s Choice winner will be revealed at the Grand Final Show on 4 September 2025, livestreamed globally via Facebook and Weibo at 7:30pm HKT / 1:30pm CET. Join the in-person audience in Hong Kong (by invitation) or tune in live online to witness the culmination of 15 cycles of the Redress Design Award– and the next chapter of sustainable fashion.

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Footnotes

1. Futerra (2019), The honest generation are here. Are you ready?
2. Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2017), A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning Fashion’s Future

High-resolution images and the full media kit are available here.

Media Enquiries

Shirley A. Wong – Communications Lead (email)

About the Redress Design Award 2025

• The applicants: The Redress Design Award 2025 was open to applications from emerging designers and students with less than four years’ professional experience globally. Finalists here.
• The judges: The Redress Design Award 2025 judges represent the crème de la crème of global sustainable fashion industry expertise. Judges here.
• Prizes: In addition to the First Prize powered by DHL with support from the Tian Art Foundation, prizes for contestants include high-profile mentorships and cash development funds. Prizes here.
• Logistics: Learn more about DHL GoGreen Plus here.
• Redress Alumni: The Redress Design Award 2025 Finalists join the Redress Alumni Network, which offers ongoing support to over 330 designers as they develop their careers in sustainable fashion.

About Redress’ education for designers

• The online, open-access Redress Educational Resources platform is here.
• The online Redress Circular Fashion Design Courses are here.
• Further supporting statistics are here.

The Redress Design Award (www.redressdesignaward.com) is the world’s leading sustainable fashion design competition that educates and empowers emerging fashion designers about circular design techniques to reduce fashion’s negative environmental impacts. Organised by Hong Kong-based, Asia-focused environmental NGO Redress and sponsored by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (formerly known as Create Hong Kong) annually since 2011, the competition now attracts designer applicants from over 50 countries and regions to win prizes that connect them with global-leading fashion businesses to accelerate the change to a circular fashion industry.

The Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) (www.ccidahk.gov.hk) established in June 2024, formerly known as Create Hong Kong (CreateHK), is a dedicated office set up by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR Government) under the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau to provide one-stop services and support to the cultural and creative industries with a mission to foster a conducive environment in Hong Kong to facilitate the development of arts, culture and creative sectors as industries. Its strategic foci are nurturing talent and facilitating start-ups, exploring markets, promoting cross-sectoral and cross-genre collaboration, promoting the development of arts, culture and creative sectors as industries under the industry-oriented principle, and promoting Hong Kong as Asia’s creative capital and fostering a creative atmosphere in the community to implement Hong Kong’s positioning as the East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchange under the National 14th Five-Year Plan.

Redress (www.redress.com.hk) is a Hong Kong-based, Asia-focused environmental NGO with a mission to accelerate the change to a circular fashion industry by educating and empowering designers and consumers so as to reduce clothing’s negative environmental impacts.

DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry. Our DHL divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air and ocean transport to industrial supply chain management. With approximately 400,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global sustainable trade flows. With specialized solutions for growth markets and industries including technology, life sciences and healthcare, engineering, manufacturing & energy, auto-mobility and retail, DHL is decisively positioned as “The logistics company for the world”.

DHL is part of DHL Group. The Group generated revenues of approximately 84.2 billion euros in 2024. With sustainable business practices and a commitment to society and the environment, the Group makes a positive contribution to the world. DHL Group aims to achieve net-zero emissions logistics by 2050.

Disclaimer: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organisers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.