We're excited to announce that Pacific Place has joined our clothing Takeback Programme.
Redress Design Award 2024 celebrates opening with exclusive fashion sponsor, Tommy Hilfiger
Inspiring change in China, the world’s fashion powerhouse
The VF Circular Design Challenge brought together emerging fashion designers with industry professionals, disrupting an everyday fashion item by applying circular thinking. Redress challenged senior fashion students from the Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation (SCF College), Donghua University, in collaboration with VF Corporation to “hack” a classic hoodie with new design ideas and solutions for circularity — all within just four hours.
New Academy case studies and videos on circularity challenges
Highlights from recent workshops partaken by our Redress Design Award 2023 Finalists are now available as educational case studies on the Redress Academy, our free online resource library on circular fashion topics. Watch our videos to learn more about identifying three circular values — design, production, and consumer — used to keep their outfits in use, and loved, for longer.
Highlights from Wear Secondhand Day 2023 consumer campaign
This past October, we invited everyone to help raise awareness of the alarming fashion waste crisis with one simple action: wearing clothes that are “as good as new”. Thanks to all companies, schools, and members from the public who participated in our first ever ‘Wear Secondhand Day’ consumer campaign!
Hang Lung Properties joins Redress’ Takeback Programme
Get Redressed #ShopSecondhand Pop-up+: Winter 2023
Save the dates: Our large-scale secondhand pop-up shop is returning this winter! Get ready to browse and buy from our huge selection of affordable, quality secondhand clothing and accessories for all genders starting from just HK$50. In addition, we will be exhibiting outfits from our Redress Design Award 2023 Finalists. Come get up close and personal with their sustainable looks!
Alumni Prize winner Eric Wong showcases upcycled designs at BAM Festival 2023
Congratulations are in order for Eric Wong on winning this year's Alumni Prize! In collaboration with our partner Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong, he took on the challenge of reimagining their used airbag waste fabric into two upcycled showpieces.
Get Inspired at Fashion Summit (HK) 2023
Join over 40 local and overseas speakers and hundreds of delegates at Fashion Summit (Hong Kong) on 11–12 October to explore the theme "Actions to the Sustainability Journey” — including an international conference, exhibitions, fashion show, and networking, plus a Sustainable Fashion Showcase, all at the architecturally stunning Xiqu Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui. Check out the full two-day programme here.
Nils Hauser wins 2023 Redress Design Award
Congratulations to Nils Hauser for winning the 2023 Redress Design Award! The designer from Germany wins the career-changing chance to work on a sustainable design collaboration out of VF Corporation’s Tokyo Design Collective with the Timberland® design team for the brand’s Spring 2025 apparel collection.
Join us — Grand Final Week is here!
The time has come: we’ve been working hard for months to prepare, and the coming days and weeks will be a wild and rewarding ride as we welcome the Redress Design Award 2023 Finalists (and judges!) to Hong Kong for a whirlwind of masterclasses, challenges, fittings, rehearsals, judging sessions, and unforgettable experiences, all leading up to the Grand Final Fashion Show.
Retail news: Hong Kong Alumni designers launch at Haustage
Three of our Hong Kong Redress Design Award Alumni designers have hit the rails in Haustage, Asia's first sustainable fashion and lifestyle boutique, with designs created from a wide range of stunning waste fabrics.
Join our New Campaign: Wear Secondhand Day
Community Corner: Sept 2023
Empowering future generations to reduce fashion’s negative environmental impacts is a core part of our work at Redress. To accelerate our impact on students’ habits towards clothing, this fall we are launching two new activities targeting Hong Kong primary and secondary schools respectively. Applications are currently open, and we’d love to have you join us!
Illuminating Innovations: Redress Design Award 2023 Alumni Showcase at CENTRESTAGE
As part of the upcoming CENTRESTAGE Asia’s Fashion Spotlight event, we are presenting six emerging sustainable brands at the Redress Design Award Alumni booth from 6–9 September 2023 (Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–7pm) supported by Alumni Sponsor, Mercedes-Benz.
Meet our newest team members!
Redress’ Education Materials are Reaching Far and Wide
Christina Dean reinvents discarded clothing waste back into her wardrobe
The world is awash with unwanted clothes; over 100 billion new garments* are produced every year; and around 70% of clothes will meet their (unnecessary!) fate in landfill or incineration. To transform this, we need to keep clothes in use for as long as possible by upping our knowledge of sustainable consumer care techniques like washing, repairing, altering and redesigning.