The Redress Design Award 2022 is looking for entries from all across the world.
As VF's Timberland® unveils its debut collection designed with Redress Design Award 2020 winner, the world's largest sustainable fashion design competition offers HK$80,000 (US$10,000) in funding.
With Lead Sponsor Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, prominent Hong Kong-based environmental NGO Redress is announcing preparations for its Redress Design Award 2022, the world's biggest sustainable fashion design competition. The Redress Creative Award, now in its 12th cycle, encourages budding designers from across the world to compete for HK$80,000 (US$10,000) in development financing and an exciting design partnership with VF Corporation's Timberland® brand. Simultaneously, Timberland® will unveil the much-anticipated sustainable Lunar New Year collection, which was created in conjunction with Vietnamese designer Le Ngoc Ha Thu, who won the Redress Design Award 2020 Menswear. Simultaneously, Timberland® will unveil the much-anticipated sustainable Lunar New Year collection, which was created in conjunction with Vietnamese designer Le Ngoc Ha Thu, who won the Redress Design Award 2020 Menswear category.
The online application for the Redress Design Award 2022 will open on January 6, 2022, for designers all over the world, with a submission deadline of March 16, 2022. This year's winner will have the chance to work with Timberland® on a unique design project while being mentored. The winning designer will also get development money of HK$80,000 (US$10,000) and other awards. The finalists will get development cash as well as additional rewards."This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the winner of The Redress Design Award 2022 to work with Timberland, one of the world's most sustainable companies," says Redress Founder Christina Dean. "The fashion industry is begging for innovation to help it shift from polluter to pioneer, and the next generation of designers can play a key role in this."
Jersey Yuen, Assistant Head of CreateHK, praised the return of the Redress Design Award and urged designers to enter the competition at the Redress Design Award 2022 Media Launch on 5 January 2022.
Educating aspiring designers about the notion of incorporating circularity into fashion and design will be a significant component of this year's Redress Design Award. According to a report published by the EU Science Hub in 2018, over 80% of a product's environmental effect is determined during the design phase. With that in mind, the judges this year will be looking for ideas that best demonstrate low-waste, low-impact materials, and methods, as well as lifespan and recyclability.
Redress has refreshed and expanded its Redress Academy platform (previously known as LEARN) to offer free in-depth resources for designers who want to learn more about sustainable and circular fashion. This is to better educate designers and potential Redress Design Award applicants alike on these key principles. The Redress Academy has guidelines, videos, and case studies on a variety of topics, including sourcing, design, production, and marketing, all with circularity in mind. The Pathway Course, a free online program packed with practical ideas and featuring prominent industry experts, is an important component, with the option for participants to acquire a certificate upon completion. Redress Academy (formerly known as LEARN) has been updated and expanded to provide free in-depth tools for designers interested in learning more about sustainable and circular fashion. This is so that designers and future Redress Design Award contenders may learn more about these important ideas. The Redress Academy has circularity-focused guidelines, videos, and case studies on several issues, including sourcing, design, production, and marketing. A key component is the Pathway Course, a free online program packed with practical ideas and featuring prominent industry experts, with the option of earning a certificate upon completion.
Timberland® unveiled its Lunar New Year collection this week, a collaboration with Ngoc Ha Thu Le, the winner of the Redress Design Award 2020 Menswear. The collection will be sold to retailers all around the world. Marco Pavoncelli, Senior Director, Timberland® APAC, says, "It's fantastic working with a design genius like Thu, whose commitment to sustainability mixes modern design with new methodologies." "This is also one of the main reasons why, for the third year in a row, we're partnering with Redress as the Prize Partner of the Redress Design Award to attract top up-and-coming designers from all over the world who are promoting sustainability via circularity in fashion."
Thu's crowning achievement is a three-in-one parka and backpack set that can be used for a variety of activities and living situations. "The knowledge and experience I got from Timberland are priceless, and they have given me a more realistic understanding of the industry's sustainability," Thu adds. Thu also hopes that her inaugural collection serves as an inspiration to others, since the Redress Design Award attracted entries from a record 58 nations last year. "The Redress Design Award experience has been satisfying and beneficial in launching my design career."
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