By Christina Dean, Redress HK, Source: Ecouterre

Fashion NGO Redress injected Hong Kong Fashion Week with a creative dose of high-appeal and low-textile waste fashion, designed by emerging sustainable fashion designers, in last week’s The EcoChic Design Award 2013 Grand Final. Never before on the doorstep of the world’s largest clothes manufacturer has textile waste ever looked so appealing. The EcoChic Design Award is our sustainable fashion design competition that challenges emerging fashion designers to create mainstream-appeal clothing with minimal textile waste. We first dropped the competition’s roots in Hong Kong in 2011 before our cross-continent gigantic growth in this fourth cycle to shepherd designers from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, UK, France and Germany for the 2013’s culmination at Hong Kong Fashion Week.

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