Pragya Sharma was a semi-finalist of both Redress Design Award 2018 and 2019. She is still currently working as a lecturer the at the Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD) and has founded her own self-named brand, Pragya Sharma in 2019. She holds a postgraduate degree in Fashion Design from the Pearl Academy, India. 

Sustainable Fashion to me means continually re-using and re-purposing what is already in existence - a contradiction to the current state of the fashion industry where there are huge amounts of fabrics and garments that go unused or are discarded. When I design I like to start with textile scraps and make my designs within these parameters, creating something with both purpose and multifunctionality. - Pragya Sharma

redress Design Award Collection

Pragya's submission for the Redress Design Award is inspired by the hexagonal structure of the benzene molecule and uses patchwork as the basis of her collection. Applying the design techniques of up-cycling and reconstruction to textile swatches, end-of-roll fabrics and secondhand clothes, Pragya creates designs that can be worn in multiple ways. She also re-incorporates small scraps created during production as embellishments to achieve total zero-waste for her collection.  

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