What
is it?
The EcoChic Design Award
is a sustainable fashion design competition inspiring emerging fashion
designers to create mainstream clothing with minimal textile waste. Designers
are educated with the theory and techniques to enable them to create desirable
sustainable clothing via zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction
sustainable design techniques.
The 2014/15 competition
cycle is open to fashion designers with less than three years’ professional
experience and fashion design students living in Hong Kong, Mainland China,
Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, France, Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
One finalist from each of the ten regions will be selected to present
their sustainable collection at Hong Kong Fashion Week in mid January 2015 to
compete for career-changing prizes.
Who
can apply?
Applicants who meet all of
the following criteria may apply:
- Aged 18 or above (as of the application closing date on
15 August 2014).
- Currently live with a valid ID/passport/visa/resident
permit in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, France,
Germany, Sweden or Denmark.
- A fashion designer with less than three years’
professional fashion design experience or a fashion design student studying in
any year at an educational institute in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan,
Singapore, Malaysia, UK, France, Germany, Sweden or Denmark.
- An
individual (group applications are not permitted).
You can view all the prizes here.
Go here to learn more about Ecochic Design Award and to submit your application.
