Redress Design Award 2024 winners ready to tackle waste crisis
Redress, the Hong Kong-based, Asia-focused environmental NGO accelerating the change to a circular fashion industry by educating and empowering designers and consumers to reduce clothing's negative environmental impacts, has announced the Redress Design Award 2024 winners. With the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) as the Lead Sponsor, the world's leading sustainable fashion design competition concluded its 14th cycle at Hong Kong's star-studded fashion spotlight event, CENTRESTAGE, on 6 September.
Fashion, one of the world's most polluting industries, is experiencing a waste crisis. Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned. Textile waste is estimated to increase by about 60% between 2015 and 2030. It is estimated that 80% of a product's environmental impact is determined at the design stage. Redress educates designers to be champions of the circular economy, a system where materials never become waste and nature is regenerated, and where responsibility is taken for the product's entire lifecycle and its impact on the planet. Creations on the Redress Design Award runway are made using circular design techniques and textile waste, ranging from denim end-of-rolls to a shredded military parachute.
Winning the coveted First Prize with 2024 Exclusive Fashion Sponsor, Tommy Hilfiger, Tiger Chung from Hong Kong gets the career-changing opportunity to join the Tommy Hilfiger team and work on a sustainable design project for retail, creating a broader impact for the industry and consumers. Tiger out-designed nine other Finalists representing Australia, France, Iran, Italy, Mainland China, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, who were selected from applications across 55 global regions in a rigorous judging process.
At Tommy Hilfiger, all products will contribute to the circular economy by 2030 through design, use, and end-of-life. As part of this strategy, Tommy Hilfiger focuses on educating its designers about circular design, further cementing Redress and Tommy Hilfiger's shared alignment for a circular fashion system.
Redress continues to cultivate fashion game-changers all over the globe by supporting the Redress Alumni Network, a community of 300+ previous Finalists and Semi-finalists from 40+ countries and regions. Over half of these circular design talents are based in Asia, tackling waste in Asia. With diverse circular design talents and solutions, these creatives are at the forefront of a new breed of fashion designers prioritizing sustainability and circularity as much as desirability.
Next up, Redress will partner with Tommy Hilfiger to present a celebratory runway of the Redress Design Award 2024's emerging Chinese sustainable fashion designers at Shanghai Fashion Week. The collections reinforce Redress' mission and Tommy Hilfiger's DNA to create fashion that 'Wastes Nothing and Welcomes All'.
