The Redress Design Award 2019 is now open globally to emerging womenswear, menswear and unisex fashion designers with less than 3 years’ experience. The competition works to educate emerging fashion designers around the world about sustainable design theories and techniques in order to drive growth towards a circular fashion system. With a career-changing opportunity to collaborate with the JNBY Group (one of China’s leading fashion houses), the winning designer will create a sustainable collection for retail, whilst also supporting Redress’ mission to promote sustainable fashion and catalyse positive change in China’s fashion industry.

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The Redress Design Award 2018 is now open globally to emerging designers and students with less three years’ professional experience. In a year which is widely marked as a critical tipping point for consumers, designers and brands to incorporate sustainability across the fashion value chain, the 2018 cycle of the world’s largest sustainable design competition has expanded to a truly global search for emerging talent. Amidst ongoing industry pressures to produce more clothes at less cost, the Redress Design Award continues to shine a light on the push for sustainability, and the growing power of the circular economy, whilst championing emerging talent to fuel this new future for fashion. Various career-changing and educational prizes are up for grabs, including first prize with The R Collective to create an up-cycled collection for retail, a mentorship with sustainable visionary, Orsola de Castro and multiple other professional prizes. The ten finalists will later compete to win in Hong Kong in early September 2018 at a live grand final fashion show at the city’s fashion week.

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The 2015/16 cycle of the EcoChic Design Award has opened and emerging fashion designers in Asia and Europe are invited to enter the competition. The EcoChic Design Award is the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition in which young fashion designers create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. The winner of the 2015 Competition will design her/his own capsule collection using up-cycled textiles for Shanghai Tang, China’s leading luxury brand that prides itself as the curator of modern Chinese chic. The second best designer will receive a six month tailored mentorship with distinguished sustainable fashion designer, Orsola de Castro. Many other prizes are available as well.

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Applications are currently being accepted for the EcoChic Design Award 2014/2015 competition cycle and emerging fashion designers from ten (10) selected regions are invited to participate. The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition inspiring emerging fashion designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. Designers are educated with the theory and techniques to enable them to create desirable sustainable clothing via zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction sustainable design techniques. Participants are challenged to ‘re-orient’ their design palette to reflect ‘Modern China Chic’ through their contemporary and wearable womenswear collection. This must celebrate the past, present and future fabric of China’s dynamic cultural and style influences in today’s global fashion stage in your design-centric collection that reflects style as much as sustainability.

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Redress have recently opened the application procedure for their EcoChic Design Award 2013 competition. The EcoChic Design Award is a sustainable fashion design competition educating and enabling emerging designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. Now in its fourth cycle, The EcoChic Design Award 2013 is expanding to search for creative design talent in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, UK, France, Belgium and Germany. Designers are challenged to use the sustainable design techniques zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction.

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