In the photo: A model takes to the catwalk during the Sustainable fashion show as part of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) at Expo City Dubai in Dubai, UAE, 06 December 2023. The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), runs from 30 November to 12 December and is expected to host one of the largest numbers of participants in the annual global climate conference as over 70,000 estimated attendees, including the member states of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), business leaders, young people, climate scientists, Indigenous Peoples and other relevant stakeholders will attend. EPA/ALI HAIDER
The EcoChic Design Award is a Redress-organized sustainable fashion design competition that encourages budding fashion designers and students to make traditional clothes with little textile waste. Each competition cycle includes many months of training and design visits for designers. First, we educate designers on the detrimental impact of the fashion industry on the environment to promote sustainable fashion design, zero waste, and recycling. Second, we provide designers with the skills they need to understand sustainable fashion design through lectures, videos, publications, and referral links. We also challenge students to generate textile waste in all of its forms to develop sustainable design. Only then will we put designers to the ultimate test in our exclusive sustainable design competition - lowering the cost of apparel. It highlights sustainable design talent and recognizes the finest with career-changing prizes to alter fashion.
The first global cycle began in early January 2018, inviting entries from all nations worldwide.
Redress created and coordinated the EcoChic Design Award.
Redress is a non-governmental organization to promotes environmental sustainability in the fashion sector through the reduction of textile waste, pollution, water, and energy consumption. They accomplish this through educational sustainable fashion displays, exhibits, contests, workshops, research, and recycled apparel. Their profile allows them to engage with a diverse variety of stakeholders, including fashion designers, textile and garment manufacturers, brands and retailers, schools and universities, multilateral organizations, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), financial institutions, and media organizations.
Redress, in collaboration with its partners, aspires to enhance, educate, and empower a more sustainable fashion sector, therefore minimizing the negative effects and maximizing the good impact of the fashion industry on society and the environment.
Redress is a Hong Kong-based NGO that was created in 2007. (http://www.ecochicdesignaward.com/)
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