Redress announces the best emerging sustainable talents and invites the public to play a role in judging Redress Design Award
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Environmental NGO Redress announces the 30 Semi-finalist designers of the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition, the Redress Design Award 2023, and calls for the global public to vote for the designer who can best influence the future of the fashion industry. This year, the competition received applications from 46 countries and regions. The 30 Semi-finalist designers, among the world’s best-emerging talents at tackling fashion’s growing waste crisis, are now waiting in the wings for the public to cast their votes for the ‘People’s Choice Award’.
The competition invites emerging designers to address a critical challenge of the fashion industry: how to create value from waste and design our way to a more sustainable, circular future for fashion. The resulting submissions demonstrate an exciting range of aesthetics, all infused with skill, creativity, and innovation, with this year’s Semi-finalists tackling unique waste streams from electronic waste to sofa upholstery and umbrellas.
Redress invites consumers to join the judging process, highlighting the importance of consumer participation in driving sustainability in fashion. Anyone can vote for their favorite semi-finalist designer on the Redress Design Award website from now through 5 May 2023. The designer with the most votes secures a spot as one of the 10 Redress Design Award 2023 Finalists who will join an expenses-paid educational trip to Hong Kong in September to showcase their collection in person at the Grand Final Fashion Show.
Around 80% of a product’s environmental impact is locked in at the design stage, giving designers significant power in driving circularity for the fashion industry. Community drives change, and the Redress Design Award’s educational work in empowering designers toward circularity continues to be highly relevant in the current fashion landscape. The competition showcases how the next generation of designers discovers and works with unique waste streams, proving that they are the ones to watch and support in building a better future for fashion.
