Explore the New Future of Fashion in the Redress Design Award 2021 Digital Exhibition
Our digital exhibition is now live! Showcasing the best of the best from hundreds of designers around the world who joined the 11th cycle of the Redress Design Award, this year’s exhibition features pieces from their stunning collections shown on the runway that showcase zero-waste, upcycling and/or reconstruction concepts. Enter our virtual world to discover the finalists’ designs, their inspirations and hopes for a better fashion industry. And when you have gone full circle, head through the door to see the physical designs made by our finalists in our Hong Kong exhibition!
Explore the Digital Exhibition here.
WHY DIGITAL?
The Redress Design Award’s mission to reduce fashion’s environmental impact extends beyond bringing textile waste back to life, working to educate and inspire on multiple points in the design and production of garments where waste can be minimised, and garment life can be extended. For example, the 2020 and 2021 cycles held zero-waste challenges with TAL Apparel and Browzwear, using their VStitcher software to come up with concepts to put TAL’s manufacturing waste back to use. It is essential that designers are educated in digital skills, and this challenge was an opportunity for many of our finalists to start their 3D creation journey.
Digital technologies are providing solutions for cutting textile waste at multiple points in the supply chain, from digital sampling, through to influencer marketing and even elimination of physical products altogether.
The Redress Design Award 2021 Grand Final Fashion Show featured virtual models (as displayed in this digital exhibition) alongside physical ones to showcase this digital technology, which presents real opportunities to eliminate the wasteful processes of physical sampling.
Digital sampling helps designers iterate through product development and multiple changes without cutting a single piece of fabric and allows fitting on different body types without manufacturing samples as done in the past. Not only does it reduce resources used it also has the opportunity to cut costs and lead times - with £5-7 billion reportedly spent on physical sampling in the apparel industry each year this is both an economical and environmental win.
Featured Designers
Jessica Chang (Taiwan)
Jin Pei-Wen (Taiwan)
Isabella Li Kostrzewa (USA)
Psy Lau (Hong Kong)
Liu Feng (Mainland China)
Tulika Ranjan (India)
Lucy Saunders (UK)
Lili Sipeki (UK)
Friederike Snelting (Germany)
Kristina Vyzaite (UK)
This digital exhibition is produced by Hong Kong Fashion Tech company Virtual Touch in collaboration with Redress Design Award.