Tommy Hilfiger joins forces with Redress Design Award 2024
Tommy Hilfiger has been named the lead partner for the Redress Design Award 2024, the world's premier sustainable fashion design competition. The Redress Design Award invites emerging designers globally to showcase their circular and sustainable fashion collections. The competition is now open to emerging designers who can apply until March 15.
As part of the partnership, the first prize winner will collaborate with the Tommy Hilfiger design team on a sustainable retail project, gaining invaluable industry experience and building on their knowledge of sustainable fashion.
The move is aligned with Tommy Hilfiger's commitment to sustainability, which is embedded in its DNA. The brand focuses on creating fashion that 'Wastes Nothing and Welcomes All' and is currently exploring new, circular materials and manufacturing methods, like creating quality pieces from textile waste.
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 tons of textile waste is 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. Fashion designers looking to enhance their expertise in circular fashion design are encouraged to enroll 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.
With over 170 university partners worldwide, Redress is committed to equipping the next generation of fashion professionals with the necessary knowledge and tools to support, and succeed in, a fashion industry transitioning toward circularity. The Redress Academy, a free online learning platform, has benefited more than 120,000 students, designers, and industry professionals. Applications for the Redress Design Award 2024 are now open worldwide until 15 March. Emerging designers can visit www.redressdesignaward.com for complete guidelines and submission details.
