As an environmental NGO dedicated to accelerating circular fashion, we have always dared to dream big. We believe in the transformative power of fashion, and this conviction came to life at the recent Vogue Hong Kong #VogueLovesHongKong celebration in our beloved home city. Over a thousand fashion glitterati gathered at the dazzling affair, and we invited everyone in attendance to celebrate a shared vision for a sustainable future. A special thank you to our esteemed partners, Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong and Vogue Hong Kong, who made this event possible for us.
Get inspired at Fashion Summit (HK) 2024
Join us at Fashion Summit (Hong Kong) to explore the theme ‘Power Up Sustainable Fashion Business’. Check out the full programme here!
Redress Designer Residency explores fashion waste in Hong Kong
Building on our goal to empower emerging fashion designers to create circular products, Redress is spearheading a new Designer Residency programme. This project supports a selection of Redress Alumni designers through collaborative projects that develop their skills and knowledge, whilst showcasing solutions for waste and providing valuable cross-cultural exposure.
Tiger Chung wins Redress Design Award 2024
Congratulations to Hong Kong’s Tiger Chung for winning the Redress Design Award 2024! The prize package includes a career-changing opportunity to join the Tommy Hilfiger team on a sustainable design project for retail, creating a broader impact for the industry and consumers. Plus, the First Prize winner also receives a development fund of HK50,000 (US$6,400) to propel their sustainable fashion career.
Redress Alumni showcasing at Paris Olympics 2024
Redress has been invited by France-based NGO, Universal Love to showcase the works of 11 Redress Alumni designers from 9 regions around the world who have been challenged to transform sporting material waste into parures — pieces of wearable art — to be displayed during the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.
Redress Summer 2024 Pop-up+
Our popular secondhand pop-up shop is returning! Get ready to browse and buy from our huge selection of affordable, quality secondhand clothing and accessories for all genders and sizes starting from just HK$50. In addition to our special activities, shop the latest sustainable collections from Redress Alumni designers Janus Ha, Eric Wong, and Yu Wing Shan.
Redress Design Award 2024 celebrates opening with exclusive fashion sponsor, Tommy Hilfiger
Pavneet Kaur wins the People’s Choice Award 2023 with turban-inspired collection
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!
Designing for zero-waste
How challenging is it to bring a zero-waste collection from concept to retail? With Redress Design Award 2018 Winner Tess Whitfort’s passion for zero-waste evident in her competition collection we weren’t surprised to see that her commercial collection with The R Collective went beyond rescuing textile waste through upcycling, but also used innovative zero-waste design techniques to showcase a truly a circular fashion system.
Redress alumni, Janko Lam designs up-cycled fabric red packets for Nan Fung Place
To celebrate Chinese New Year in a new and environmentally conscious way, Nan Fung Place have collaborated with Redress this year, in their search to find the perfect sustainable designer to up-cycle unused clothing into Lai See packets - bringing new life to unused textiles. First cycle winner of the Redress Design Award, Janko Lam was selected for the project, and matched with several boxes of unused red dresses that had been waiting for just the right project! In her signature style, Janko transformed the dresses into beautifully crafted Lai See packets, which feature a mandarin collar based on the traditional qípáo dress. Inspired by the passion for cultural heritage and oriental aesthetics, Janko’s creations are not only eye-catching, as her functional design ensures that customers can re-use the Lai See packets post the new year in a variety of ways, including to store mobile devices, name cards, cosmetics or stationery.
The limited-edition Nan Fung Place Mandarin Collar Red Packets are available while stock lasts for redemption between 16th Jan and 4th Feb 2019. More details on how to redeem yours here.
Frontline fashion 3 goes digital!
With much-loved celebrity personality Cara G McIlroy as host, award-winning Frontline Fashion is back for its third series, this time available for all to view on YouTube!
The move from TV Broadcast to online is a strategic step to reach larger audiences with critical content around the impacts of fashion and the opportunities for positive change.
The R Collective x Lia Kassif now in Lane Crawford
Captivated by alumni designer Lia Kassif’s Redress Design Award 2017 collection (which combined military uniforms with bridalwear industry waste), up-cycled luxury brand, The R Collective jumped at the chance to work with Lia to develop their own capsule collection.
Award-winning designer Kate Morris’ up-cycled Pop collection turns waste into want
First prizewinner of the Redress Design Award 2017 (formerly the EcoChic Design Award), Kate Morris’ sustainable knitwear Pop Collection launches with The R Collective, the pioneering up-cycled fashion brand and social impact business. Born from NGO Redress, The R Collective is determined to change wasteful practices in the fashion industry. Kate’s playful, pop-art inspired limited collection consists of 8 knitwear styles, including reversible coatigans, sweaters and turtle necks, all of which were created by up-cycling luxury yarn waste in a design collaboration with knitwear brand, 22 Factor.
STEERING DESIGN
REDESIGNING BUSINESS
Getting a hand on sustainable fashion design is one thing. But grasping sustainable business philosophies, which salute the triple bottom line of people, planet and profits, is another. EcoChic Design Award 2014/15 Special Prize winner, Laurensia Salim, had the chance to stretch her business horizons as she claimed her winning educational prize of visiting John Hardy’s design and production facilities in Bali in June 2015.
EAST MEETS...WASTE AND IT NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD
[Throwback] It’d been a busy year for Kévin Germanier, our The EcoChic Design Award 2014/15 winner. The media furore that followed him from Hong Kong’s runway back to his London home stayed with Kévin until his return to Hong Kong in September 2015 for his winning prize; to spend three intense months creating his up-cycled collection with Shanghai Tang. He hit the floor running, with his trademark charm and smiles in tow, to work shoulder to shoulder with China’s leading luxury brand’s team on each step of the process, from design, production, sourcing, marketing and merchandising, as he prepared his collection, and visions, for sale.
SERVING UP WASTE-REDUCING UNIFORMS
Up-cycled luxury
Following her First Prize win for the EcoChic Design Award 2015/16, Polish rising star Patrycja Guzik returned to Hong Kong to embed herself in the Shanghai Tang design team to learn how sustainable fashion can be implemented on a commercial scale. Currently on showcase at the brand’s Duddell Street flagship store in Hong Kong, the resulting up-cycled capsule collection was created from surplus luxury fabrics from the brand’s previous collections. Pat took inspiration from Redress’ hometown, incorporating the rich purples and blues of our megalopolis’ night skyline, and playful ruffle details to emulate Victoria Harbour’s lapping waters into her designs. Click here to learn more about this creative collaboration for change.
Feeding a thirst for sustainable fashion
Since the first EcoChic Design Award in 2011, we have witnessed the launch of the careers of an array of talented sustainable designers who are as passionate as us about changing the fashion industry for the better. We now celebrate a community of 107 alumni - semi-finalists and finalists of the competition. Research indicates that 65% of emerging millennial consumers want sustainable clothes, and our alumni are demonstrating that they want to design them, with more than 20% of our alumni developing their own fashion brands!
ALUMNI FEATURE AT BRIGHTON FASHION WEEK 2015
Angus Tsui, The EcoChic Design Award 2012 Peoples Award Winner, and Tiffany Fung, The EcoChic Design Award 2012 China finalist, with her brand Tiffany Pattinson, were invited to showcase their sustainable collections at Brighton Fashion Week.