Do You Have What It Takes To Re-Think Fashion ? ─ARTS THREAD Invites Designers To Enter The $10,000 Redress Design Award 2022 n
The Redress Design Award is the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition.
Organised by Redress, and now promoted by ARTS THREAD, the competition works to educate emerging fashion designers around the world about sustainable design theories and techniques to drive growth towards a circular fashion system.
ARTS THREAD is the leading digital platform for emerging artists and designers, a launchpad for the next generation of creative talent representing 300,000 students in more than 100 countries from over 850 design schools.
ARTS THREAD bridges the gap between education and the creative industry. For the first time ever, design students, graduates, universities, schools and the creative industry can network worldwide.
By putting sustainable design talent in the global spotlight, the competition creates a unique platform for passionate and talented fashion game-changers to transform the global fashion industry and rewards the best with career-changing prizes to maximise long-term impact.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Details & to enter Redress Design Award 2022
Location: open globally - worldwide
Experience/age: Having less than 4 years’ professional fashion design experience or are a fashion student in any year at an educational institution at the time of application. 18+
Entry: Free To Apply
Deadline: March 16 2022
THE BRIEF
You are challenged to design a contemporary collection for a modern, fashion-forward adult who is concerned about the environment and actively seeks comfort and style whether in the city or exploring the big outdoors.
Your collection will rescue textile waste, re-using these through upcycling while reimagining fashion, which will likely influence your creativity and processes.
To Win, You Must:
Design three ready-to-wear outfit sketches for your application for construction using textile waste and/or textiles made from waste products. (Complete outfits not necessary at this stage.)
Impress the judges. For the open application and semi-final judging, your designs will be scored in three categories; creativity and originality, sustainability, marketability.
Our judges will be looking for evidence of circular design thinking in designers collections.
This means from sourcing your materials to pattern design, creation, consideration of the user, and disposal after use, you must have a clear understanding of the environmental impacts of your creations and will have explored solutions through the design of your collection.
You should be reflective and critical and able to clearly explain your decision making at each step of creating your sustainable collection.
If you are successful in becoming a finalist, you must create those same three ready-to-wear sketches from the open application into complete outfits, along with creating one more showpiece outfit.
You will also need to design one ready-to-wear outfit that will be created virtually for the Grand Final fashion show, with the support of Redress.
For Grand Final judging, the additional category of workmanship will be added when the judges can touch, feel and see your collection to assess your skills.
