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PHOTO CREDIT Claire Dartigues
Claire Dartigues
Redress 2018 Alumni Prize winner Claire Dartigues has launched a line of couture tops inspired by women’s football jerseys. Designed to support women’s football as well as ideas of ambition, perseverance, energy and determination, the brand artfully challenges notions of traditional feminine beauty. Coverage by French media and an exhibition at the FIFA Museum, as well as support from actors and sports journalists alike, demonstrate how much the range has captured the public’s imagination. The brand’s mantra “Respect All, Fear None” is a response to the discrimination, small and large, that women encounter in modern life. Made in France, luxurious jacquards and pleated fabrics used in the t-shirts emphasise elegance.
PHOTO CREDIT Markus Alexander Voigt
Julia Talita Pagenkopf
Julia is a semi-finalist of the Redress Design Award 2019 and is currently working as a freelance designer whilst continuing to build her own brand, Inside/Outside Studio. Earlier this year, as part of Fashion Revolution Week Berlin, Julia, who holds an MA in Arts Fashion Design from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin), participated in events by Berlin online platform, Sustainable Fashion Matterz. “We were invited to wear our own labels, while asking “Who Made My Clothes” and campaigning for greater transparency in the industry,” she says.
PHOTO CREDIT Hung Wei-Yu
Hung Wei-Yu
Hung Wei-Yu is a finalist of the Redress Design Award 2018 and also a semi-finalist of the 2017 cycle. On October 4th, 2019 he will present his new collection during Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week as part of an event called the Future Fashion Show. In this collection, Wei-Yu uses leftover fabrics from Singtex, a Taiwan-based company, to explore the boundary between craftmanship and street-style. The designer took the opportunity to discuss the ‘bark lace’ he used in his Redress Design Award competition collection as an illustration of his practice - to transfer culture and old handicrafts into ideas of modern design and to go beyond the exploration of humanities and traditional crafts to embrace the concept of sustainable fashion.
PHOTO CREDIT Farrah Floyd
Farrah Floyd
The Redress Design Award 2013 alumnus Bojana Draça’s sustainable fashion label, Farrah Floyd, goes from strength to strength. In November 2018, the designer opened a flagship store in Dansaert, the centre of Brussels’ thriving fashion scene, called Farrah Floyd Concept Store (FFCS) offers collections by Farrah Floyd as well as the work of almost 20 independent designers, who share the same vision in ethics and aesthetics. Her new collection, ‘Romance Vulgaris’, continues Bojana’s work with systematic zero-waste pattern drafting in which every pattern piece is a rectangle of different dimensions to create timeless clothes made to last.
PHOTO CREDIT KATIE JONES
Katie Jones
British alumnus Katie Jones’ work with hand-knitted and crocheted designs continues to develop. Earlier this year she was invited by the V&A Museum to share her design journey - as well as an online Flower Folk Collar workshop - on film.
This article originally appeared in the Redress Design Award 2019 Magazine.