Fashion Designers Win Spotlight For Circular Design Solutions
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Editor’s Notes
REDRESS DESIGN AWARD 2022 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: www.redressdesignaward.com.
● The competitors: The Redress Design Award 2022 was open to applications from emerging designers and students with less than four years’ professional experience from around the world. All finalists are here.
● The winners are:
● Redress Design Award 2022 First Prize winner: Federico Badini Confalonieri, Italy
● Redress Design Award 2022 Runner-Up Prize winner: Ashutosh Panda, India
● Redress Design Award 2022 Hong Kong Best Prize Winner: Patrick Lam, Hong Kong
● Redress Design Award 2022 People’s Choice winner: Cris Miranda, Chile
● The judges are: Desiree Au, Founding Publisher, Vogue Hong Kong; Sean Cady, Vice President, Global Sustainability and Responsibility, VF Corporation; Orsola de Castro, Author and Co-founder, Fashion Revolution; Christophe Degoix, Chief Operating Officer, TAL Apparel; Edwin Keh, Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA); Puneet Khosla, Vice President and Managing Director, Timberland APAC – VF Corporation; and Angus Tsui, Creative Director, ANGUS TSUI and Alumnus, Redress Design Award.
● The Redress Design Award 2022 partners and sponsors include Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the lead sponsor; VF Corporation, The VF Foundation, TAL Apparel, UPS, and Lenzing.
● Education: the Redress Academy is here and further supporting statistics are here.
RECENT ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS
● The Redress Design Award 2021 First Prize winner, Jessica Chang, collaborated with VF’s Timberland for their upcoming Lunar New Year 2023 collection ‘Year of the Rabbit’.
● In a collaboration with Lenzing, Hong Kong alumni Eric Wong’s and Louise Lau’s latest collections combine Tencel™ fibres made into fabric with REFIBRA™ technology.
● Five alumni recently collaborated on the ‘REVIVAL’ collection, with The R Collective, the business inspired by Redress that rescues, reuses, and recycles luxury textile waste.
● Alumnus Kévin Germanier debuted at Paris Fashion Week in March 2022 and will also show again in October 2022. He continues to dress celebrities, including Chelsea Lazkani and La Grande Dame.
Hashtag: #RedressDesignAward
About Redress (www.redress.com.hk)
Redress is a pioneering environmental charity with a mission to educate and empower the fashion industry and consumers to reduce clothing’s negative environmental impact by shifting to circular solutions. Its dynamic programmes work to minimise the negative impacts of fashion, whilst promoting innovative new models and driving growth towards a more sustainable industry via the circular economy. Working directly with a wide range of stakeholders, including designers, manufacturers, brands, educational bodies, government and consumers, Redress aims to create lasting environmental change in fashion.
The Redress Design Award (www.redressdesignaward.com) is the world’s largest annual sustainable fashion design competition. Each cycle, participants from all over the world are empowered through a months-long educational journey to create fashion with minimal waste. We educate designers about fashion’s negative environmental impacts, whilst inspiring them to use the core sustainable design techniques of zero-waste, upcycling, and reconstruction. Through our university talks, sustainable fashion workshops, the online Redress Academy, and in partnership with more than 150 universities around the world, we provide emerging designers with the theory and techniques to help them understand the new circular economy and capitalise on its global potential for the fashion industry.
About Create Hong Kong (www.createhk.gov.hk)
Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) is a dedicated office set up by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in June 2009 to spearhead the development of creative industries in Hong Kong. From 1 July 2022 onwards, it is under the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau. Its strategic foci are nurturing talent and facilitating start-ups, exploring markets, and promoting Hong Kong as Asia’s creative capital and fostering a creative atmosphere in the community. CreateHK has been sponsoring the Redress Design Award (formerly the EcoChic Design Award) since 2011 to promote Hong Kong’s fashion design.
*Disclaimer: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organisers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, Create Hong Kong, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.
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