[6 September 2024, Hong Kong] — Redress, the Hong Kong-based, Asia-focused environmental NGO accelerating the change to a circular fashion industry by educating and empowering designers and consumers to reduce clothing’s negative environmental impacts, has announced the winners of the Redress Design Award 2024. With the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) as the Lead Sponsor, the world’s leading sustainable fashion design competition concluded its 14th cycle at Hong Kong’s star-studded fashion spotlight event, CENTRESTAGE*, on 6 September.

Fashion, one of the world’s most polluting industries, is experiencing a waste crisis. Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or burned. Textile waste is estimated to increase by about 60% between 2015 and 2030.