While much of today’s imagery is moving towards AI, we take the opposite direction with this cycle’s creative theme of sensory storytelling, celebrating the tactile reality of circular fashion: its textures, techniques, and perfect imperfections.
Experience the world’s leading sustainable fashion design competition! Join our 8 Finalists from around the world as they showcase their sustainable runway collections and be inspired by a display from select Redress Alumni brands.
While much of today’s imagery is moving towards AI, we take the opposite direction with this cycle’s creative theme of sensory storytelling, celebrating the tactile reality of circular fashion: its textures, techniques, and perfect imperfections.
Congratulations to Redress for successfully organising the Redress Design Award 2026, from our Lead Sponsor, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency.
We serve as a beacon for the next generation to flex and flow their creative collections, made with sustainability at their core, and placing love and hope into every stitch.
Watch the documentary on our initiative weaving fashion, culture, and sustainability. Through continued use by local companies, the upcycled lions live on!
Discover a playful line of accessories crafted entirely from retired DHL courier uniforms, designed by Redress Alum, Eric Wong (Absurd Laboratory).
Supported by the VF Foundation, this guide explores recycling pathways across Asia-Pacific with closed-loop prototyping pilots to provide practical knowledge for stakeholders to kickstart their clothing recycling journey and drive fashion circularity.
The Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) established in June 2024, formerly known as Create Hong Kong (CreateHK), is a dedicated office set up by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR Government) under the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau to provide one-stop services and support to the cultural and creative industries with a mission to foster a conducive environment in Hong Kong to facilitate the development of arts, culture and creative sectors as industries. Its strategic foci are nurturing talent and facilitating start-ups, exploring markets, promoting cross-sectoral and cross-genre collaboration, promoting the development of arts, culture and creative sectors as industries under the industry-oriented principle, and promoting Hong Kong as Asia’s creative capital and fostering a creative atmosphere in the community to implement Hong Kong’s positioning as the East-meets-West centre for international cultural exchange under the National 14th Five-Year Plan.
DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry. Our DHL divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air and ocean transport to industrial supply chain management. With about 395,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global sustainable trade flows. With specialized solutions for growth markets and industries including technology, life sciences and healthcare, engineering, manufacturing & energy, auto-mobility and retail, DHL is decisively positioned as “The logistics company for the world”.
We are currently working with academic institutions worldwide to equip the next generation of fashion professionals with the knowledge and tools to transform the fashion industry. Please join us!
Disclaimer: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organisers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.
