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Update! ● Redress Design Award 2021 First Prize with Timberland Winner: Jessica Chang (Taiwan) ● Redress Design Award 2021 Runner-Up Prize Mentorship with Orsola De Castro Winner: Jin Pei-Wen (Taiwan) ● Redress Design Award 2021 Hong Kong Best Prize Winner: Lau Sin Yi (Hong Kong) ● Redress Design Award 2021 People’s Choice Winner: Tulika Ranjan (India) ● Redress Design Award 2021 Alumni Prize with Kipling Winners: Beatrice Bocconi (Italy- Redress Design Award 2020 Finalist); and Grace Lant (Hong Kong - Redress Design Award 2020 Finalist and Hong Kong Best Prize Winner) Update! 10 The finalists are announced for Redress Design Award 2021 Jessica Chang, Taiwan Jin Pei-Wen, Taiwan Isabella Li Kostrzewa, United States of America Psy Lau, Hong Kong Liu Feng, Mainland China Tulika Ranjan, India Lucy Saunders, United Kingdom Lili Sipeki, United Kingdom Friederike Snelting, Germany Kristina Vyzaite, United Kingdom Update! The semi-finalists are announced! You can vote online for the People’s Choice here until the 8 May! The 30 Redress Design Award 2021 semi-finalists are: Federico Badini Confalonieri, United Kingdom Nawoda Bandara, Sri Lanka Saskia Baur-Schmid, Australia Jessica Chang, Taiwan Ruwanthi Gajadeera, Sri Lanka Saraansh Gupta, India Purnima Jain, India Jin Pei-Wen, Taiwan Paula Keilholz, Germany Isabella Li Kostrzewa, United States of America Psy Lau, Hong Kong Jasmine Leung, Hong Kong Liu Jing, Hong Kong Liu Feng, Mainland China Ffion Martin, United Kingdom Andra Nistor, United Kingdom Tulika Ranjan, India Sofia Sanchez, United Kingdom Lucy Saunders, United Kingdom Lili Sipeki, United Kingdom Friederike Snelting, Germany Berivan Tomay, United Kingdom Sabine Viksne, Latvia Kristina Vyzaite, United Kingdom Wei Jia , Mainland China Felipe Wu, United Kingdom Xia Mingwei, Mainland China Xu YiDan, Mainland China Taofeeq Yahaya, Nigeria Sheeky Yue, Mainland China The 10 finalists will be announced on 13 May. The Redress Design Award is the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition. Organised by Redress, the competition works to educate emerging fashion designers around the world about sustainable design theories and techniques to drive growth towards a circular fashion system. By putting sustainable design talent in the global spotlight, the competition creates a unique platform for passionate and talented fashion game-changers to transform the global fashion industry and rewards the best with career-changing prizes to maximise long-term impact. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Details & to enter Redress Design Award 2021 Location: open globally - worldwide Experience/age: Having less than 4 years’ professional fashion design experience or are a fashion student in any year at an educational institution at the time of application. 18+ Entry: Free to Apply Deadline: March 15 2021 THE BRIEF You are challenged to design a contemporary collection for a modern, fashion-forward adult who is concerned about the environment. Your collection will rescue textile waste, re-using these through upcycling while reimagining fashion, which will likely influence your creativity and processes. TO WIN, YOU MUST: Design three ready-to-wear outfit sketches for your application for construction using textile waste and/or textiles made from waste products. (Complete outfits not necessary at this stage.) Impress the judges. For the open application and semi-final judging, your designs will be scored in three categories; creativity and originality, sustainability, marketability. Our judges will be looking for evidence of circular design thinking in designers collections. This means from sourcing your materials to pattern design, creation, consideration of the user, and disposal after use, you must have a clear understanding of the environmental impacts of your creations and will have explored solutions through the design of your collection. You should be reflective and critical and able to clearly explain your decision making at each step of creating your sustainable collection. If you are successful in becoming a finalist, you must create those same three ready-to-wear sketches from the open application into complete outfits, along with creating one more showpiece outfit. You will also need to design one ready-to-wear outfit that will be created virtually for the Grand Final fashion show, with the support of Redress. For Grand Final judging, the additional category of workmanship will be added when the judges can touch, feel and see your collection to assess your skills. THE PRIZES FIRST PRIZE Following their runway victory, the Redress Design Award first prize winner will be awarded a development package tailored to their needs to propel their career in sustainable fashion design forward. This will include financial support for the development of their brand, career or for education; and matching with key expert mentors. The first prize winner will also receive… A high-performance lockstitch machine and an overlock sewing machine from JUKI A six month individual access to all areas of Bloomsbury Fashion Central including the Fairchild Books Library and associated online resources, The Berg Fashion Library and the Fashion Photography Archive* * Bloomsbury Fashion Central not available for residents living in the USA/Canada RUNNER-UP PRIZE - THE REDRESS DESIGN AWARD 2021 MENTORSHIP WITH ORSOLA DE CASTRO The runner-up will receive a tailored mentorship with distinguished sustainable fashion designer and competition judge, Orsola de Castro. Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in sustainable fashion, Orsola has nurtured many of the pioneering names in sustainable fashion from their early designs through to their established brands. This mentorship opportunity will give the winner expert and targeted support from wherever they are in the world through video calls and by email over a six-month period. This prize prepares the designer, their visions and collections for the competitive market of attracting fashion buyers and media – and ultimately securing success. PEOPLE'S CHOICE PRIZE After impressing the global public with their designs in an online vote to outshine the other 29 semi- finalists, this winner will receive a JUKI overlock sewing machine. The People’s Choice will also receive… Additional promotion across Redress’ social networks A guaranteed place in the Grand Final A digital copy of the Bloomsbury book The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions by Sara B. Marcketti and Elena E. Karpovacopy HONG KONG BEST PRIZE Hong Kong's highest scoring designer will receive... guaranteed place in the Grand Final A JUKI high-performance lockstitch sewing machine A digital copy of the Bloomsbury book The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions by Sara B. Marcketti and Elena E. Karpovacopy ALL TEN FINALISTS WILL - Have their designs shot in Hong Kong by a renowned photographer and styled by an influential stylist Have designs showcased under the international public’s spotlight in an exhibition after the grand final concludes Receive a two-hour mentorship with a sustainable fashion expert to help nurture their future career development Receive a subscription to Bloomsbury’s online portal, the Berg Fashion Library (from May to October 2021) A digital copy of the Bloomsbury title, Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion by Alison Gwilt, Alice Payne and Evelise Anicet Ruthschilling ALL 32 SEMI-FINALISTS WILL RECEIVE - Promotion across Redress’ marketing channels Access to the Redress Design Award Alumni Network which provides regular opportunities to develop your sustainable fashion career A selection of digital fashion books from Bloomsbury Publishing: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion by Alison Gwilt, Designing Fashion’s Future: Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change by Alice Payne, and Zero Waste Fashion Design by Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan