Alumni News
Our Redress Design Award alumni is a community of previous finalists and semi-finalists from the last 10+ years, representing 40 countries worldwide and a wide range of talents and skills, from brand owners to consultants, educators, and more developing sustainable solutions for the industry. Redress provides ongoing support to our Alumni Network through networking events with industry professionals and other alumni, brand collaborations, and other career-enhancing opportunities, such as our partnership with Shenzhen Fashion Week for the upcoming showcase of top talent from the group this September.
Read on to discover what our alumni have been accomplishing recently, from fashion weeks to master’s collections, publishing research, brand collaborations, and more ways of driving the industry forward. Plus, visit our website to meet more alumni and their work.
Awards
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Damini Mittai
Late last year, Damini Mittai won India’s Best Design Project 2021 by DesignIndia Magazine for her collaboration with Indian sustainable fashion brand The Summer House, where she turned their pre-consumer textile waste into quilts for women in her local community. Damini was also selected to showcase her installation created from waste in the 12th Design x Design ‘20 Under 35’ exhibition at the Alliance Française de Delhi in Spring 2022.
Saskia Baur-Schmid
Australian designer Saskia Baur-Schmid is making the news, being named as one of the NYC Journal’s ‘Top 30 Personalities Disrupting the Fashion Industry in 2022’. Her zero-waste and upcycling label Hyph-n was also awarded ‘Best Slow Fashion Brand’ in the Eluxe Awards 2022 — Eluxe Magazine’s accolades for excellence in the sustainable luxury market — for its ‘serious style and innovation’. Look out for Saskia at Milan Fashion Week in September, where she will be showcasing her new zero-waste spring/summer collection.
Brand Collaborations
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Brand Collaborations ■
Angus Tsui
Hong Kong designer Angus Tsui has been dressing stars for years, including recently British singer Mabel for the music video ‘I Wish’. His eponymous brand debuted with their ‘Xenogenesis’ collection at Shanghai Fashion Week in October 2021, and this September presents their latest collection at CENTRESTAGE in Hong Kong on 9 September 2022.
Anna Schuster
Anna Schuster has been outfitting the staff of German lifestyle hotel Urban Nature in upcycled uniforms made from surplus stock and secondhand clothing. From flea markets to secondhand stock, and online to outlets, Anna’s fabrics are sourced from all over Germany. Stitched cloth patches add a personal style to her designs, with images from both the cosmos and nature, matching the ethos of the seaside hotel in St. Peter-Ording. Inspired by nature, muted browns and greens make up the uniforms’ colour palette.
Janus Ha
Janus Ha dressed the female lead in the music video for ‘Nobody But Yourself’ (2022) from Hong Kong renowned singer Alfred Hui. The delicate design is from Janus' brand if.or__seeyou and was made through the reworking of surplus garments with handcrafted smocking.
Neri De Meester
With her lingerie label Under Thy Skin, Neri De Meester collaborated with sustainability brand Studio Narture in making textile dyes from fermented bread. Debuting at Design Fest Gent in Belgium, the project tackled the issues of food waste and unsustainable fashion practices. Offering a rare solution for naturally dyeing synthetic fibres, Neri designed a prototype bra, panties, and bodysuit from recycled polyamide fabrics. By 2025, Studio Narture plans to launch the product to the market for designers and small textile enterprises.
Education
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Katie Jones
Katie Jones is bringing energy and inspiration to do-it-yourselfers across the world. With her Domestika course, you can learn how to crochet the iconic granny square to make your own colourful sweater. Katie’s course will take you through her fashion career journey, all the basic crochet stitches, finding design inspiration for your sweater, and even how to care for it through washing and storing for longevity. She also offers advice for sharing your bold statement piece online.
Research
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Jin Pei-Wen
Taiwanese designer Jin Pei-Wen published a research paper in the Taiwan Textile Research Journal. The paper, titled ‘The Zero-waste Fashion Design Approach to Facilitate Textile Waste into a New Sustainable Cycle’, explores the feasibility of sustainable fashion design solutions that can both take care of existing waste as well as avoid future waste. Its findings inspired her Redress Design Award 2021 competition collection ‘Tangram Club’, which used geometric zero-waste patterns like the polygons of a tangram puzzle, with a design for disassembly and multiple dressing options for longevity.
