Redress, based in Hong Kong, educates and empowers emerging fashion designers about circular fashion, against the background that 80 per cent of a product’s environmental impact is laid down at the design stage.

Redress is galvanising the emerging designer sustainable design movement, creating change at the drawing board. Redress has a vision to build a world in which fashion is circular. Together with emerging designers, academia, business, and government, Redress is accelerating a circular fashion industry globally.

Based in Hong Kong, the heart of Asia and the gateway to the Mainland of China, Redress is in a prime position to address the issue of waste within the fashion industry.While the fashion industry has grappled with many challenging Covid-related supply chain impacts and a challenging economy, fashion’s environmental and waste crisis is worsening.

The equivalent of one rubbish truck of textiles is landfilled or burned every second, global textile waste estimated to increase by 63 per cent by 2030, and the fashion industry is responsible for ten per cent of global carbon emissions — more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

Asia is the global fashion industry’s engine of production and, increasingly, consumption. Asia accounts for around 60 per cent of global exports of garments, textiles, and footwear, and China is the world’s biggest fashion consumer market.