REDRESS DESIGN AWARD 2025: joint winners!

For the first time ever, two joint winners for the Redress Design Award’s First Prize, congratulations to:

Hugo Dumas (France): Joint winner of the Redress Design Award 2025 First Prize supported by DHL, Hugo Dumas, whose up-cycled and zero-waste collection is regenerative and recyclability-focused, said: “Winning is not just about my designs, it’s about proving that creativity can outpace crises.”

Carla Zhang (Mainland China): Joint winner, Carla Zhang, who’s handwoven zero-waste collection is made with complex factory surplus cords and yarns, shared: “Winning this competition will allow us to promote resourceful solutions to more of the industry and consumers, as a way to find value in overlooked materials. It’s challenging, and I’m ready to rise to the challenge.”

The First Prize includes:

– An exclusive opportunity to showcase their competition collections at the Shanghai Greenext Expo 2025, supported by DHL Hong Kong

– A limited-edition up-cycled retail collaboration with renowned designer Flora Cheong-Leen, supported by the Tian Art Foundation

– 1-on-1 tailored mentorship with distinguished sustainable fashion designer and competition judge, Orsola de Castro (Fashion Revolution)

“For 15 competition cycles, we’ve invested in designers because they hold the pen to rewrite fashion’s story. Fashion’s current linear and wasteful system is unacceptable. Designers aren’t being adequately empowered, from university classrooms to industry boardrooms, whilst consumers are, ethically speaking, asleep in their wardrobes. Around the world, the catastrophic corresponding carbon and water pollution, and textile waste that’s washing up on beaches and overflowing in landfills, is telling the planet something. The question is, are we listening?”

– Dr. Christina Dean, Founder and Chair, Redress.

The winners also received a cash prize and each gain a full year of access to all areas of Bloomsbury Publishing Fashion Central, including the Fairchild Books Library and the Fashion Photography Archive.

The Redress Design Award 2025 winners also included Mara San Pedro from the Philippines, who won the People’s Choice, and Nathan Moy, who won Hong Kong Best.

The Redress Design Award is the world’s leading sustainable fashion design competition that educates and empowers emerging fashion designers about circular design techniques to reduce fashion’s negative environmental impacts. Organized by Hong Kong-based, Asia-focused environmental NGO Redress and sponsored by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (formerly known as Create Hong Kong) annually since 2011, the competition now attracts designer applicants from over 50 countries and regions to win prizes that connect them with global-leading fashion businesses to accelerate the change to a circular fashion industry.

Watch the full ceremony here!

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