Julia English is a finalist of the Redress Design Award 2019. She holds a BA in Fashion (Design) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia andis currently interning with sustainable fashion brands, A.BCH and Lois Hazel.

“I prefer the term fashion activist over sustainable designer - I use clothes as a medium to ask people about their own experience of fashion. Through addressing the space between purchase and end of life I believe we can comprehensively address what the future of fashion will be”. - Julia English

redress Design Award Collection

Every piece of clothing tells its own story. This is the inspiration behind Julia’s Redress Design Award collection, ‘Worn Well’. She applies the design techniques of up-cycling, reconstruction and zero-waste to a variety of textile waste and secondhand clothing, creating oversized, layered pieces that aim to bring the wearer in as a co-creator of an ever shifting garment, in order to build strong emotional attachments and increase functionality and longevity.

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