The Redress Design Award 2024 has opened for applications worldwide. This is the 14th edition of the awards.
- Emerging fashion designers with less than four years of experience in the fashion industry can showcase their skills in sustainable fashion design and compete for prizes.
- The First Prize winner will have the opportunity to join the Tommy Hilfiger team and work on a sustainable design project for retail, gaining valuable industry experience and building on their knowledge of sustainable fashion.
- Finalists will also win an expenses-paid trip to Hong Kong for an educational bootcamp culminating into the Grand Final Fashion Show, where the winners will be announced.
The competition: The Redress Design Award is organised by Hong Kong-based nonprofit Redress under the support of Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) as the lead sponsor.
- The competition calls on emerging designers globally to apply with their circular and sustainable fashion collections, before the closing date of 15 March 2024.
New partner: Tommy Hilfiger is exploring new, circular materials and manufacturing methods like creating quality pieces from textile waste, while operating with sensitivity to planetary boundaries.
- The brand, which is owned by PVH Corp, is also working to make the fashion industry more accessible to underrepresented communities through programmes and partnerships and creating inclusive products that work for every Tommy Hilfiger fan.
The context: Fashion’s current unsustainable linear system of ‘take, make and waste’ is wasteful and polluting. Around 100 billion apparel items are produced per year, approximately doubling since 2006, and the majority of this is landfilled or burned within one year of production.
- An estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste are created annually from the fashion industry, with the equivalent of one rubbish truck of textiles landfilled or burned every second.
- It is estimated that 80% of a product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage, where decisions from everything from materials, trims, repairability, longevity to recyclability are laid down.
Prepping up: Fashion designers looking to enhance their expertise in circular fashion design are encouraged to enrol in the free, online Redress Circular Fashion Design Course, delivered by leading industry experts, to gain an edge in the fast-changing fashion industry.
- The newest module ‘Design for Recyclability’, launching on 23 January and featuring insights from Jessica Wei, Senior Director of Sustainability at Tommy Hilfiger Asia Pacific, offers a unique opportunity to explore circular business models and learn from professionals embracing recyclability – and will be exclusively available to Redress Design Award applicants through 15 March.
- The free, online self-study resources are available in English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
What they said:
Fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Left unabated, pollution and waste is set to worsen. We urgently need to accelerate circular fashion, which is the best way to let fashion thrive without costing the earth. Working from our Hong Kong headquarters, and with our Asia focus, we want to redress—to remedy and set right—fashion, by collaborating with bold fashion brand businesses and brilliant designer talent to create the fashion industry of the future, right now.
— Christina Dean
Founder
Redress
The Redress Design Award plays a pivotal role in bringing design elites from around the world to gather and conduct exchanges. The HKSAR government is pleased to support the competition with a view to reinforcing Hong Kong as the East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchange.
— Victor Tsang
Head
Create Hong Kong
