The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The Redress Design Award, which recognises and promotes young fashion designers with a sustainable ethos, is taking applications for its 2021 cycle until March 15.
The first-prize winner of the Hong Kong-based awards, which are open to young designers with less than four years professional experience from across the world, will receive HKD 50,000 ($6,400) and the opportunity to join Timberland for a design collaboration that will include working closely with sustainable sourcing, product development, production and marketing experts from within Timberland’s parent company, VF Corporation.
The runner up will receive a mentorship with sustainable fashion designer and competition judge, Orsola de Castro, and they, along with the ‘Hong Kong Best’ category winner will also receive HKD 15,000 ($1,900) and a Juki sewing machine.
Thirty semi-finalists will be announced on April 22, followed by 10 finalists on May 13. The finalists will show their collections in Hong Kong in early September at a livestreamed show, where winners will be announced.
Local streetwear brands, festivals and stores selling major global labels remain relatively small but the country’s community of hypebeasts and sneakerheads is growing fast.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Senegalese investors, an Indian menswear giant and workers’ rights in Myanmar.
Though e-commerce reshaped retailing in the US and Europe even before the pandemic, a confluence of economic, financial and logistical circumstances kept the South American nation insulated from the trend until later.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Korean shopping app Ably, Kenya’s second-hand clothing trade and the EU’s bid to curb forced labour in Chinese cotton.