Get Redressed Month invites Hong Kongers to take a look inside their closets and consider how they can reuse, rewear, and recycle their clothes with a series of activities:
Community Corner August 2022
Sign up to join Get Redressed Month 2022 this October!
This October, we’re running a series of fun and educational activities across Hong Kong for local and international schools, companies, and clubs, all focused on shifting attitudes about clothing consumption towards reducing fashion waste and the environmental impacts of our choices. Our events are available bilingually in English and/or Chinese.
Bring us your unwanted clothes: our Takeback Programme has resumed!
Redress is pleased to announce that our Takeback Programme has resumed after a brief hiatus, and you can once again drop your unwanted clothes in one of our 25 conveniently-located collection boxes across Hong Kong for reuse and recycling.
Circular Fashion Education Toolkit: now with more resources!
Community Corner May 2022
Our community clothes-sorting sessions have resumed, and we need your help! We are currently facing a 7-tonne backlog of unsorted clothing in our warehouse storage, waiting to be recirculated to our charity partners and other recycling channels. Visit HandsOn Hong Kong to sign up for volunteering and help us tackle this pile-up!
Community Corner February 2022
Yoyo and the World’s Coolest T-Shirt
Redress Releases FIRST EVER Children’s Comic Book about Sustainable Clothing Habits
Redress is delighted to launch today, ‘Yoyo and the World’s Coolest T-Shirt,’ a new comic book produced to help young children change their mindset toward fashion waste through prevention and transformation of fashion waste into useful products. In Hong Kong, 170 tonnes of clothing are sent to landfill every day, a waste of the labour and natural resources to produce these garments.
Redress Recognised with Hong Kong Sustainability Award
Celebrating success in promoting fashion sustainability
Redress is honoured to be awarded the Hong Kong Sustainability Award from The Hong Kong Management Association for 2020/21, in recognition of our mission to educate and empower the fashion industry and consumers to reduce clothing's negative environmental impact by shifting to circular solutions.
REDRESS CELEBRATES A RECORD-BREAKING GET REDRESSED MONTH
Get Redressed Month is an annual campaign that shines a spotlight on the issue of clothing waste. Our signature events encourage Hongkongers to rethink how they buy, use and dispose of clothing. In October 2021, thousands of companies, clubs, schools and individuals across Hong Kong chose to give their unwanted clothes a new life by participating in Hong Kong’s largest clothing drive, and some went even further and gave secondhand clothing a try too.
Green Ladies x Get Redressed Secondhand Clothing Sale
CREATING A CIRCULAR SYSTEM FOR UNWANTED CLOTHES
We are delighted to announce that our new partner Jeeves, Hong Kong is now accepting clothing donations at their Aberdeen and Central stores - enabling us to reach a wider audience with our mission to reduce fashion’s waste. Hong Kongers now have a choice of 19 locations across the city where they can easily donate unwanted clothes to Redress for sorting and re-distribution for reuse or recycling.
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.
Don’t let your clothes go to landfill!
With 17 permanent collection points across Hong Kong we’re expanding our year round take back programme to make clothes recycling as easy and accessible as possible! The new year is traditionally a time to clear out the clutter and get organised, so if your cupboard is bursting at the seams we’re here to help…. simply drop off your clothing at Zara and PizzaExpress (with soon to be added Jeeves locations) and with our teams of dedicated volunteers we’ll do the hard work.
Local charity Redress collects a record-breaking 9 tonnes of unwanted clothing for ‘Get Redressed Month’
Hong Kong – Across the city more than 80 companies, clubs and schools, joined Redress for their first #GetRedressed Month – kicking off the charity’s goal to turn October into the official month to take action against textile waste. Just over nine tonnes of unwanted clothing was collected through the drive, which also included a series of events and educational activities designed to drive awareness and shift behaviours among the general public.
Celebrating five years of partnership
Join #GetRedressed Month this October
We’re dedicating the month of October to action against textile waste - and it’s not too late to take part. Redress aims to raise global awareness of the issues, and by working with the public, companies, clubs and schools throughout, aims to collect 7 tonnes of unwanted clothing in Hong Kong!
Redress is championing multiple ways to keep clothes in the fashion loop for longer. During #GetRedressed Month you can be part of a local circular economy, learn about the real waste behind the fashion industry and make a difference.
Get informed: Take part in our free public events including talks, workshops and much more! Visit the schedule here.
Get a conscious closet: Check out our mini-guide to get clued up on how you can shop smarter and make your clothes last longer.
Donate your unwanted clothes: All clothing donated will be carefully sorted and redistributed to local charities including those benefiting refugees, migrants, women at risk, the elderly, babies, children and families who are all from a variety of low income backgrounds. Any clothes received that cannot be reused will be recycled.* Check to see if your organisation is participating – 60 across Hong Kong are now signed up. Alternatively, you can find our public donation box locations here.
Shop for a cause: This October you can flex your purse power for good. We have teamed up with a range of businesses so that when you spend your dollars, Redress will benefit. Explore them here.
Strike a pose: Take a picture of your #GetRedressed outfits and share your stories with us on social media! Your #GetRedressed outfit could be secondhand, borrowed, rented, up-cycled, made from sustainable materials or simply a long-standing item in your wardrobe that you love and have worn over and over.
*Some items received that are not suitable for reuse or up-cycling and that are not of a recyclable material have no option but to go to landfill.
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.
Acceptance of pre-loved clothing rises in Hong Kong!
This month hundreds of Hong Kongers visited our latest Pop-up shop eager to get their hands on quality secondhand clothes and accessories from the Redress closet. Our pop-up generated valuable funding for Redress and our work to cut waste out of fashion whilst promoting the local circular economy, as shoppers revealed in the treasures that we freed from hibernation in Hong Kong’s wardrobes and put back into use in one of our largest clothing drives to date!
Get Redressed Pop-up Shop, OnTheList, Hong Kong
Get ready for the summer season and find yourself a bargain at our second-hand pop-up shop in Central at the OnTheList showroom!
- Tues 3 July - 12 noon - 8pm
- Wed 4 July - 8am - 8pm
- Thurs 5 July - 8am - 8pm
- Fri 6 July - 10am - 8pm
Our pre-loved clothing collection has every fashion style covered - from A(rmani) to Z(ara) and everything in between. Stop by and find suitable gifts for the kids, your partner, friends and of course, yourself!
Choosing to shop secondhand over new minimises the environmental impacts of your wardrobe. Redress has pre-selected top quality pre-loved (and some never worn) women's, men's and children's clothes and accessories. Our new book Dress [with] Sense will also be on sale!
We are partnering up again with OnTheList, who share our vision to minimise the negative impacts of fashion. Each year, an inestimable amount of clothing is destroyed by brands as they are no longer of any value. OnTheList helps brands make space in their warehouses sustainably, by organising weekly flash sales, members can enjoy the best deal in town and brands can turn their old inventory into an opportunity.
Spend over $500 and get entered in a draw to win John Masters Organics skincare goodies worth $1,100!
Visit John Masters Organics Hong Kong & Macau's Online Flash Sale at OnTheList here from 3-8 July! Up to 40% off all available haircare products.
All profits from our pop-up will go to supporting the work of Redress. Cash and credit cards accepted - don't forget to bring your own bag!