May 29, 2023

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Redress now accepts 2023 trend layout entrants

The Redress Structure Award 2023 is accepting programs from rising fashion designers around the entire world, which includes Thailand.

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This is the 13th cycle of the world’s biggest sustainable manner design competition that educates and empowers rising vogue designers about circular design, in opposition to the qualifications that 80% of a product’s environmental influence is laid down at the style and design phase.

Organised by Hong Kong-headquartered, Asia-focused environmental NGO Redress, the educational competition attracts candidates from more than 50 nations and enjoys support from more than 150 universities globally, with thousands of hopeful designers battling to showcase their progressive layout techniques on the world phase to get the opportunity to collaborate with main manner corporations. In accordance to Redress, Asia accounts for around 60% of worldwide exports of garments, textiles, and footwear. The equal of a person rubbish truck of textiles is landfilled or burned each individual second and the manner field is liable for 10% of world wide carbon emissions — far more than all worldwide flights and maritime delivery mixed.

Headquartered in the coronary heart of Asia, Redress is in a prime situation to tackle the situation of waste in just the vogue business and to construct a world in which vogue is circular.

This 12 months, the level of competition is open to rising designers and learners with a lot less than four years of qualified practical experience, focusing on both of those womenswear and menswear unique assortment designs.

This is an opportunity for them to pursue their goals in the community, be supported in their careers by their fellow designers and forge friendships together the way.

Online apps can be built until eventually March 16. 10 finalists will be introduced on May perhaps 10 and they will go to Hong Kong in September for the Grand Last Week activities.

All those who make it to the semi-finals or past will be a part of the Redress Style Award Alumni Network, a group offering a variety of vocation improvement alternatives in sustainable structure, with alumni achievements like trend weeks, brand name collaborations and much more.

There are multiple prizes on give, with a progress fund pot of HK$80,000 (340,000 baht) to be distributed amongst the highest-scoring finalists. All finalists and semi-finalists will receive academic and job-improving prizes.