AIGLE Hong Kong Green Friday 2022: Shop in Support of Redress

AIGLE Hong Kong Green Friday 2022: Shop in Support of Redress

To encourage the public to move away from over-consumption and impulse-buying to more environmentally conscious wardrobes, AIGLE Hong Kong is continuing its partnership with Redress for a third year of support.

Get Redressed Month 2022: Over 16 Tonnes of Clothes Collected and Sorted

Get Redressed Month 2022: Over 16 Tonnes of Clothes Collected and Sorted

Congratulations are in order! To the hardworking team at Redress, to all of our partners and supporters, and to YOU, our amazing community – Get Redressed Month 2022 is officially complete, and a huge success!

Reduce clothing waste with Get Redressed Month 2022

Reduce clothing waste with Get Redressed Month 2022

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:

Rethinking shipping footprints

Rethinking shipping footprints

With more than 100 billion new garments being produced and transported around the world every year, carbon emissions along the whole supply chain add up to a staggering 10% of the earth's total CO2 production.

A message from our founder

A message from our founder

Redress Founder, Christina Dean was invited to share insight with Kourtney Kardashian, as part of her journey into understanding fashion’s sustainability issues in her docu-series that is being released alongside her exclusive collection with boohoo, which includes recycled and upcycled vintage materials. Christina shares '‘In my interview, Kourtney and I focused on fashion and textile waste, which is a huge global crisis largely driven by unsustainable, over-consumption and under-utilisation of clothing.”….

Redress Design Award 2022 finalists’ photoshoot honours competition’s legacy with a warehouse of renewed wear

Redress Design Award 2022 finalists’ photoshoot honours competition’s legacy with a warehouse of renewed wear

Redress, the environmental NGO working to reduce fashion’s waste, has produced an editorial photoshoot offering a glimpse into the upcoming runway looks from the finalists of the Redress Design Award 2022, which will be showcased at the Grand Final Fashion Presentation on 7 September, to be held at ArtisTree in Hong Kong and livestreamed to the world.

Community Corner August 2022

Community Corner August 2022

We had a fun and fulfilling week in July sharing our selection of secondhand styles with you at our summer pop-up at Taikoo Place. Thank you to our incredible team of staff and volunteers who signed on to help make this event a success!

Sign up to join Get Redressed Month 2022 this October!

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!

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.

How can fashion be circular? Explore comprehensive resources at the Redress Academy, a free-access educational platform

How can fashion be circular? Explore comprehensive resources at the Redress Academy, a free-access educational platform

Redress is proud to unveil new improvements to the Redress Academy, our free multilingual online resource with in-depth content on circular fashion design topics, created for designers, educators, industry professionals and anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of responsible fashion design.

Meet our newest team members!

Meet our newest team members!

Our Redress team is the force behind our mission to educate and empower the fashion industry and consumers to reduce clothing's negative environmental impact by shifting to circular solutions.

Circular Fashion Education Toolkit: now with more resources!

Circular Fashion Education Toolkit: now with more resources!

Bilingual, interactive content free for students and teachers

Consumers now buy 60% more clothes than they did 15 years ago [1], but behind this increased appetite lies a trail of waste and pollution, with an estimated 92 million tons of textile waste created annually from the fashion industry [2].

Meet the Redress Design Award 2022 Finalists!

Meet the Redress Design Award 2022 Finalists!

We are delighted to announce the 10 finalists of the Redress Design Award 2022, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition. The finalists, representing eight different regions, outshone hundreds of applicants worldwide for the chance to bring their competition designs to life in time for the Grand Final Fashion Presentation in Hong Kong in mid-September, where the winners will be declared.

CELEBRATING SUCCESS, OUR 2021 IMPACT

CELEBRATING SUCCESS, OUR 2021 IMPACT

Despite the challenges presented by COVID-19 in 2020, we were not slowed in our mission to cut waste out of fashion and we’re proud to share our achievements across our projects from the Redress Design Award to the Circular Fashion Programme in our 2020 Impact Report.

Community Corner May 2022

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 AprIL 2022

Community Corner AprIL 2022

On 25 March, our very own Corane Chu took part in a panel discussion with Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVHK) and Creative Beings…Read More

Fashion Designer Survey

Fashion Designer Survey

Redress are conducting a worldwide survey to assess levels of sustainability knowledge and priority among fashion designers. Read more…

Community Corner February 2022

Community Corner February 2022

Due to the ongoing situation with COVID in Hong Kong and associated social restrictions which prevent us from holding volunteer sorting sessions, we have made the difficult decision to pause our clothing takeback programme.

Yoyo and the World’s Coolest T-Shirt

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

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.