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Redress Design Award 2022 seeks global entries

World’s largest sustainable fashion design competition offers HK$80,000 (US$10,000) in funding as VF’s Timberland® unveils debut collection designed with Redress Design Award 2020 winner It’s a banner month for leading Hong Kong-based environmental NGO Redress as it unveils plans for its Redress Design Award 2022, the world’s largest sustainable...

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Redress Design Award 2022 launches via live stream event

International sustainable fashion design competition The Redress Award hosted a livestream event via YouTube to unveil details about the 2022 edition. Applications for the Redress Design Award 2022 are open internationally from tomorrow, January 6 until March 16. During the live stream, the judges of this year’s edition also specified the design...

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Redress Design Award alumna designs a sustainable collection for Kipling

KIPLING® launches sustainable limited-edition capsule collection made from deadstock designed by Redress Design Award alumna, Beatrice Bocconi Following successful partnership between Redress and VF Corporation for the Redress Design Award 2019 Made For Change Challenge in Hong Kong, Redress and Kipling® organised their first competition amongst...

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Redress Design Award 2020 competition winners announced as fashion’s global waste crisis worsens

People’s Choice Award voting now open until 8 May 2021 – winner to receive a guaranteed place in the 2021 Grand Final Show The Redress Design Award announces the semi-finalists of its 11th cycle – 30 talented sustainable designers from across the globe representing the future of fashion – and kicks off public voting today. This year, for the...

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Redress Design Award to offer winner a collaboration with Timberland

Sustainable fashion competition, Redress Design Award has opened applications for 2021 and has announced career-changing prizes including an opportunity to collaborate with Timberland on a design project, as well as win 50,000 Hong Kong dollars. Organised by environmental charity Redress with Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong...

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García Bello: “Each piece of donated clothing has a story to tell”

Buenos Aires / Arnhem - After winning first prize in the sustainable fashion competition Redress Design 2020, Juliana García Bello became the centre of attention in Argentina’s fashion industry. Originally from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, she chose the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands to settle and continue developing her brand using...

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Join The Redress Design Award 2020 Grand Final Show Livestream

[12 August 2020, Hong Kong] – Environmental NGO, Redress, reveals the signature looks of the Redress Design Award 2020 Finalists in advance of the 10th anniversary digital Grand Final on 3 September where winners will be announced online to a global audience. The earth elements-themed photoshoot, styled and shot by two leading Hong Kong...

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Applications open to the 2020 Redress Design Award

Young fashion designers looking to make the industry more sustainable can now apply to the 10th cycle of the Redress Design Award (formerly the EcoChic Design Award), the sustainable fashion design competition organized by Hong Kong-based NGO Redress. The prize will have two categories this year: menswear and womenswear. To apply, the designers...

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British designer Maddie Williams wins Redress 2019

Edinburgh College of Art graduate Maddie Williams took home First Prize in the Redress Design Award, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition that aims to put textile waste in the global spotlight by challenging emerging designers to created collections using sustainable and circular design techniques. Williams, who won the...

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Redress Design Awards now accepts applications from menswear designers

Redress Design Award, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, has expanded to include menswear. Applications from menswear designers will be accepted for the first time since the competition’s launch in 2011. Now in its ninth cycle, the competition aims to find “the next big talent who will inspire a new wave of conscious...

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Redress Design Awards proves that fashion doesn’t have to be wasteful

An exhibit featuring pieces from the Redress Design Awards 2018 opened at Fashion for Good Experience in Amsterdam. The diverse array of collections were made entirely from waste, ranging from the usual suspects of dead stock textile and surplus materials from manufacturing, to more unusual contributors such as furniture offcuts and sofa...