The Redress Design Award 2024 celebrated the opening of the 2024 competition cycle with our new strategic partners and Exclusive Fashion Sponsor, Tommy Hilfiger, at a launch event on 23 January at Soho House, Hong Kong.
Community Corner August 2022
Sign up to join Get Redressed Month 2022 this October!
This October, we’re running a series of fun and educational activities across Hong Kong for local and international schools, companies, and clubs, all focused on shifting attitudes about clothing consumption towards reducing fashion waste and the environmental impacts of our choices. Our events are available bilingually in English and/or Chinese.
Meet our newest team members!
Community Corner May 2022
Our community clothes-sorting sessions have resumed, and we need your help! We are currently facing a 7-tonne backlog of unsorted clothing in our warehouse storage, waiting to be recirculated to our charity partners and other recycling channels. Visit HandsOn Hong Kong to sign up for volunteering and help us tackle this pile-up!
New donation partners ZÉ by SANKUANZ and Mikan by Clémentine Sandner join Redress
REDRESS' NEW SUSTAINABLE HUB
Redress, the Hong Kong-based environmental charity with a mission to prevent and transform textile waste and inspire positive change in the fashion industry, has moved into new headquarters in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, immersing into the distinctive charm and rich history of the heart of Hong Kong’s textile industry.
Designing for zero-waste
How challenging is it to bring a zero-waste collection from concept to retail? With Redress Design Award 2018 Winner Tess Whitfort’s passion for zero-waste evident in her competition collection we weren’t surprised to see that her commercial collection with The R Collective went beyond rescuing textile waste through upcycling, but also used innovative zero-waste design techniques to showcase a truly a circular fashion system.
Hong Kong's public unite to recycle unwanted clothing as Redress pushes for more avenues for recovery
We're leading the charge in helping the Hong Kong public rethink their wardrobe waste. In partnership with laundry experts, Miele, 4.5 tonnes of clothing were collected this week after a short citywide campaign proving that consumers have no desire to throw away their unwanted clothing – of which almost 100% can be recycled. Engaging consumers on the value of keeping clothing in action for longer through better care, the clothing drive is part of our mission to expand our work to save more clothing from landfills.
What happens to clothing that goes unsold?
No one knows the true scale of ‘deadstock’ clothing waste — in other words, clothes that are unable to be sold at full or discounted price and must be gotten rid of somehow.
We know that around 100 billion garments are manufactured annually. Let’s say the sell-through rate (both full and discounted) is a generous 90%, then potentially 10 million items of clothing become ‘deadstock’ every year. That’s a lot of clothes to miraculously make ‘disappear.’ So what do brands and retailers claim to do with the products they can’t get customers to buy?