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EcoChic Design Award 15

After our biggest year for entries to date and a challenging selection process by our regional judges across Asia and Europe, 30 talented fashion designers (15 from Asia and 15 from Europe) have successfully made it through to the international judging stage of the competition. For their applications to The EcoChic Design Award, designers with less than three years’ industry experience and fashion design students were challenged to design a textile waste reducing womenswear collection. The applications received showed diverse innovation, and showed creativity when using the waste-reducing design techniques of zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction. While we dont have all the semi-finalists in Artsthread you may also want to say, to see the full list of semi-finalists The EcoChic Design Award 2015/16 is a sustainable fashion design competition inspiring emerging fashion designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. Entry Requirements Website: The EcoChic Design Award Location: living in any Asian or European country at the time of the application (valid ID/passport/visa/resident permit). Experience/age: fashion designer with less than three years’ professional fashion design experience or a fashion design student studying in any year at an educational institute in any Asian or European country at the time of the application. Entry: Free Deadline: August 15 2015 Prizes: 10 finalists from across the regions will be selected to come to Hong Kong in January 2016 to showcase their minimal waste collections at HKTDC Hong Kong Fashion Week where career-changing prizes will be awarded. What is the competition design brief? You are challenged to design a sustainable womenswear collection that will redress the way contemporary, fashion-loving women see their outer and inner reflection. You designs must inspire your muse to step out into the world confidently wearing her sustainability values stylishly on her sleeve. You are designing for… A dynamic, contemporary woman aged 25-40 with a sophisticated appreciation of style and modern Chinese aesthetics. She enjoys considered and conscious luxury, where focus is given to quality, tailoring and craftsmanship. She is conscientious about wastefulness in modern living and wishes to be clothed in ways that reflect her style as much as her sentiments about sustainability. Your sustainable designs must… Cut waste out of fashion by using one or more of the sustainable design techniques of zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction. Take the deeper cut by using textile waste for the up-cycling and reconstruction outfits. Show wider opportunities through being reproducible and scalable. If you want to redress women in style and sustainability, you must… Design to win. Create three ready-to-wear outfit sketches (not complete outfits) for the open application. If you make the cut to become one of the ten finalists, you must make these three ready-to-wear sketches into complete outfits. To test you further, you must then create two additional complete ready-to-wear outfits and one couture outfit in order to make your mark on the runway. Impress the judges. Your designs will be scored in three categories based on the creative design brief (in the open application and semi-final) and four categories (in the Grand Final) each with equal weighting according to creativity and originality, sustainability, marketability and workmanship (final only).

After our biggest year for entries to date and a challenging selection process by our regional judges across Asia and Europe, 30 talented fashion designers (15 from Asia and 15 from Europe) have successfully made it through to the international judging stage of the competition.

For their applications to The EcoChic Design Award, designers with less than three years’ industry experience and fashion design students were challenged to design a textile waste reducing womenswear collection. The applications received showed diverse innovation, and showed creativity when using the waste-reducing design techniques of zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction.

While we dont have all the semi-finalists in Artsthread you may also want to say, to see the full list of semi-finalists

The EcoChic Design Award 2015/16 is a sustainable fashion design competition inspiring emerging fashion designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste.

Entry Requirements

Website: The EcoChic Design Award

Location: living in any Asian or European country at the time of the application (valid ID/passport/visa/resident permit).

Experience/age: fashion designer with less than three years’ professional fashion design experience or a fashion design student studying in any year at an educational institute in any Asian or European country at the time of the application.

Entry: Free

Deadline: August 15 2015

Prizes: 10 finalists from across the regions will be selected to come to Hong Kong in January 2016 to showcase their minimal waste collections at HKTDC Hong Kong Fashion Week where career-changing prizes will be awarded.

What is the competition design brief?

You are challenged to design a sustainable womenswear collection that will redress the way contemporary, fashion-loving women see their outer and inner reflection. You designs must inspire your muse to step out into the world confidently wearing her sustainability values stylishly on her sleeve.

You are designing for…

  • A dynamic, contemporary woman aged 25-40 with a sophisticated appreciation of style and modern Chinese aesthetics.
  • She enjoys considered and conscious luxury, where focus is given to quality, tailoring and craftsmanship.
  • She is conscientious about wastefulness in modern living and wishes to be clothed in ways that reflect her style as much as her sentiments about sustainability.

Your sustainable designs must…

  • Cut waste out of fashion by using one or more of the sustainable design techniques of zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction.
  • Take the deeper cut by using textile waste for the up-cycling and reconstruction outfits.
  • Show wider opportunities through being reproducible and scalable.

If you want to redress women in style and sustainability, you must…

  • Design to win. Create three ready-to-wear outfit sketches (not complete outfits) for the open application. If you make the cut to become one of the ten finalists, you must make these three ready-to-wear sketches into complete outfits. To test you further, you must then create two additional complete ready-to-wear outfits and one couture outfit in order to make your mark on the runway.
  • Impress the judges. Your designs will be scored in three categories based on the creative design brief (in the open application and semi-final) and four categories (in the Grand Final) each with equal weighting according to creativity and originality, sustainability, marketability and workmanship (final only).