People’s Choice Award winner guaranteed a spot in the 2023 Grand Final Fashion Show
The Redress Design Award 2023 Semi-finalists are ready to be revealed! This year, we received applications from 46 countries and regions. Now the 30 hopeful designers, among the world’s best emerging talents at tackling fashion’s growing waste crisis, are waiting in the wings for you to cast your votes for the ‘People’s Choice Award’.
The competition invites emerging designers to address a critical challenge of the fashion industry: how to create value from waste and design our way to a more sustainable, circular future for fashion. Explore the Semi-finalist profiles and you will see an exciting range of aesthetics, all infused with skill, creativity, and innovation, tackling unique waste streams from electronic waste to sofa upholstery and umbrellas.
Now it’s YOUR turn to have your say on which designer can best influence the future of the fashion industry. Consumer participation like yours is critical in driving sustainability in fashion.
The designer with the most votes secures a spot as one of 10 Redress Design Award 2023 Finalists who will join an expenses-paid educational trip to Hong Kong in September to showcase their collection at the Grand Final Fashion Show. All applicants have their eyes on the main prize: a design collaboration opportunity with Timberland.
Voting is open from now through 5 May 2023.
The Redress Design Award 2023 Semi-finalists are:
Aashita Jain, India
Apoorva Dudeja, India
Aya Letzter, Israel
Frances Brunner, USA
Giovanni Libero Zocchetta, France
He Jingru, Mainland China
Jasmine Leung, Hong Kong
Jessica Horton, UK
Júlia Cots, Spain
Kim Yanghun, France
Lenox Pinto, India
Mandy Fong Sze Man, Hong Kong
Mariona Urgell Baiori, Spain
Melody Zhang, Hong Kong
Miia Keskitalo, Finland
Molly Ryan, Australia
Nguyen Thien Thao, Vietnam
Nils Hauser, Germany
Pavneet Kaur, India
Pham Duy, Vietnam
Ray Yang Chen Jui, Italy
Rose Brown, UK
Ruwanthi Gajadeera, Sri Lanka
Sandali Fernando, Sri Lanka
Scarlet Wang, USA
Simona Kyosovska, Bulgaria
Stina Henriksson, Sweden
Thach Tien, Vietnam
Wen Hanzhang, Canada
Yaroslava Kovalenko, Russia
We are also welcoming our second cohort of Rising Talents, a programme launched in 2022 to offer in-depth circular fashion training and mentorship to designers who showed exceptional potential in their competition applications. Six Rising Talents are selected this year, an increase from four last year.
The Redress Design Award 2023 Rising Talents are:
Bethany Rothwell, UK
Chung Tsz Ho, Hong Kong
Hugo Dumas, France
Ian Chang, UK
Pachari Santichadsak, Thailand
Yu Wing Shan, Hong Kong