SZMAN (Mandy Fong)

Redress Design Awards 2023 Hong Kong Best

Meet The Designer

I want to use my platform and brand to embrace the slow fashion movement and create planet-forward pieces using meaningful materials to extend the life of our clothing.
SZMAN (Mandy Fong)
I want to use my platform and brand to embrace the slow fashion movement and create planet-forward pieces using meaningful materials to extend the life of our clothing.
SZMAN (Mandy Fong)

Bio

Mandy Fong’s sustainable womenswear fashion brand SZMAN offers casual couture for daily life. The designs present a vintage mood with raw edges, patchwork, and inside-out fabrics, keeping the original features of the waste textiles. Mandy also designs with low-impact materials like eco-fur, natural fibres like cotton and wool, as well as polyester end-of-rolls, cut-and-sew waste, and unsold clothing from Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong’s fabric district.

Mandy was the Hong Kong Best winner of the Redress Design Award 2023.

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Redress Design Award Collection

Inspired by the issue of home textile waste, Mandy’s Redress Design Award collection, ‘Start From Zero’, explores the potential of upcycling home textile waste with multifunctional outfits combining aesthetics and practicality. Incorporating zero waste patterns and upcycling techniques, Mandy’s designs present a vintage mood with raw edges, patchwork, and inside-out fabrics, keeping the original features of the waste textiles. She also designs with low-impact materials like eco-fur, natural fibres like cotton and wool, as well as polyester end-of-rolls, cut-and-sew waste, and unsold clothing from Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong’s fabric district.
Start From Zero

Redress Design Award Collection 2023

Inspired by the issue of home textile waste, Mandy’s Redress Design Award collection, 'Start From Zero', explores the potential of upcycling home textile waste with multifunctional outfits combining aesthetics and practicality. Incorporating zero waste patterns and upcycling techniques, Mandy’s designs present a vintage mood with raw edges, patchwork, and inside-out fabrics, keeping the original features of the waste textiles. She also designs with low-impact materials like eco-fur, natural fibres like cotton and wool, as well as polyester end-of-rolls, cut-and-sew waste, and unsold clothing from Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong’s fabric district.

March 20, 2026

Online Session: Circular Fashion Design Strategies with Redress Design Award 2025 winners

Join a LIVE online session for emerging designers to deepen your knowledge for creating circular fashion, and give you an edge in your application for the Redress Design Award.

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March 17, 2026

2026年度「Redress 設計大賽」現已開放申請!

設計師們 :你們的考驗是以回收再重用的紡織品,沿用循環時尚的設計策略 ,為時尚前衛的成年人設計一套現代系列。

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March 17, 2026

The Redress Design Award 2026 is open for applications!

Calling all emerging fashion designers: We challenge you to design a contemporary collection for a modern, fashion-forward adult, using waste textiles and guided by circular design strategies.

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