By Hannah Lane | Communications Director
Celebrating The EcoChic Design Award’s five-year legacy of putting waste back into fashion
Dear Donors,
We wanted to update you on our progress made in reducing waste in the fashion industry, with thanks to your previous support.
In May, we officially opened The EcoChic Design Award 2015/16 cycle, which marks our competition’s Five Year Anniversary. We are now celebrating becoming the word’s largest sustainable fashion design competetion that challenges designers to reduce and reuse textile waste since our growth from our inauguration in Hong Kong in 2011 when we accepted entries from Hong Kong only to now including over 100 countries across Asia and Europe.
Over the last five years, we’ve introduced sustainable fashion education to thousands of emerging designers, influenced global fashion brands to produce sustainable collections and reached millions of consumers. You can find out more about our journey in our video here.
With thanks to your generosity this year, we reached even more emerging designers through our Fashion Academy tour of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, London and Mumbai, which allowed us to bring immersive sustainable fashion design knowledge from sustainable fashion experts to over 150 students, designer and lecturers.
But despite these successes, we can’t be complacent because textile waste is still a critical environmental and social issue around the world and our work to inspire and educate tomorrow’s leaders to be agents of change is far from over.
Your support means we can continue to promote the importance of rethinking fashion design education and the use of minimal waste design techniques as solutions to the growing issue of textile waste that is generated by the fashion industry and consumers globally.
Yours sincerely,
Hannah Lane
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