Redress

Catalysing a circular economy for fashion in Hong Kong: \r\nOn average, 339 tonnes of textiles were discarded every day into Hong Kong Landfills.* Redress works to educate Hong Kongers about textile and clothing waste with the ultimate goal of keeping clothes in use for longer and textile waste out of landfill. Redress works to change mindsets and practices to reduce the production of textile waste, as well as creating systems and partnerships that generate and showcase value in existing waste. Redress achieves this predominantly through increasing primary and secondary school engagement, and through consumer campaigns. They also provide the public with educational resources on the impact of the fashion industry and concrete examples of how to make conscious consumer choices through its campaigns. To promote sustainable behavioural change, Redress conducts consumer programs, such as workshops, campaigns, pop-up shops, clothing drives and exhibitions. Redress also works closely with schools, providing materials for teachers and students to integrate the subjects of overproduction, overconsumption, clothing pollution, textile waste and future innovation. \r\n\r\nThe Redress Design Award: \r\nThe Redress Design Award is the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition. Organised by Redress, the competition works to educate emerging fashion designers around the world about sustainable design theories and techniques in order to drive growth towards a circular fashion system. By putting sustainable design talent in the global spotlight, the competition creates a unique platform for passionate and talented fashion game-changers to transform the global fashion industry and rewards the best with career-changing prizes to maximise long-term impact. Each competition cycle takes participants on an educational journey lasting several theory and design-packed months. We work to educate designers about fashion’s negative environmental impacts, whilst inspiring them to use circular design strategies to cut waste out of fashion. Through our lectures, pathway course, academies, online LEARN platform and educational work in partnership with more than 140 universities around the world, we provide young designers with the theory and techniques to help them understand the new circular economy and capitalise on its global potential for the fashion industry. We then challenge participants to flex their creative genius and prove that they have the ingenuity and conviction to transform textile waste into stunning, scalable and commercially viable collections that will inspire and redress the world.