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Fashion Value Chain
18-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion Value Chain
Elan Circular Design Challenge 2025 Announces Winners
The R|Elan Circular Design Challenge (RCDC), India's premier sustainability-focused fashion award, has revealed its 2025 global finalists. Hosted by Reliance Industries Limited's R|Elan in partnership with the United Nations in India and Lakmē Fashion Week, this year's edition attracted over 190 applications from across 10+ countries, with support from global partners including the British Council, Redress, Fondazione Sozzani, and Fashion Revolution. Indian Finalists: Varshne B (CRCLE): Uses materials like Weganool, banana leather, stainless steel scraps, and post-consumer textiles in a zero-waste, circular design model. Radhesh Agrahari (Golden Feathers): Innovates with chicken feather waste, producing wool-like textiles via a patented, chemical-free, zero-waste process. Rishabh Kumar (Farak): Works with rural artisans, using handspun organic cotton, natural dyes, and traditional block printing—all without electricity or plastic. Global Finalists: UK Winner: Maximilian Raynor repurposes deadstock luxury textiles and vegan leather into zero-waste garments, focusing on rental and reuse. EU Winner: Martina Boero (Cavia) blends Italian craftsmanship with circular practices by upcycling vintage and deadstock materials. APAC & Beyond Winner: Jesica Pullo (BIOTICO) creates couture using post-consumer plastic and industrial waste, while advancing social inclusion through partnerships with disability institutions. Rakesh Bali, Senior VP – Marketing, Reliance Industries, said, 'This platform, born in India and now global in its reach, reflects our deep commitment at Reliance to nurturing a new generation of changemakers—designers who are not only creative but also conscious.' Jaspreet Chandok, Group VP, Reliance Brands Ltd, added, 'CDC is now shaping global conversations on circularity by fostering inclusive and collaborative innovation.' Jury panels across regions included leaders from Vogue India, British Council, Fondazione Sozzani, UNEP, Redress, and sustainability champions like Dia Mirza and Sara Sozzani Maino. What's Next: Finalists will converge at Lakmē Fashion Week x FDCI in October for the Grand Finale. The winner will receive: INR 15 Lakhs seed fund Stand-alone showcase at LFW in March 2026 6-month mentorship with Orsola De Castro & Estethica The runner-up will receive INR 5 Lakhs and mentorship. R|Elan CDC continues to be a powerful global platform driving innovation in circular fashion and sustainability.
RTHK
12-06-2025
- General
- RTHK
NGO collects tonnes of discarded clothes
NGO collects tonnes of discarded clothes The mountain of clothes was put on display on Thursday. Photo: RTHK Hong Kong-based NGO Redress says it has collected close to 18 tonnes of unwanted clothing in the last month. The mountain of clothes, from over 120 collection points across the city, was put on display at the group's "Sort-a-thon" event on Thursday. Volunteers will spend three days sorting through the items and deciding what should be resold, donated, downcycled or thrown away. Executive director of Redress, Nissa Cornish, said it is estimated that 402 tonnes of textiles are discarded every day in Hong Kong. "It really opens your eyes as to how big the actual problem is in Hong Kong, this is just a tiny drop in the ocean," she said, referring to the 18 tonnes of clothes collected by the group. "We are also seeing an uptake in people participating in campaigns like this one, shopping second-hand or swapping [clothes], especially among younger is a trend towards more sustainable clothing habits in Hong Kong," Cornish said. "When people ask us what is the most sustainable thing they can buy or wear, it is what's already in your closet. Even if what you already have in your closet is old fast fashion."
Tatler Asia
06-06-2025
- Business
- Tatler Asia
Meet the top 10 finalists of the Redress Design Award 2025
The Redress Design Award 2025 calls for tangible solutions for combating fashion waste Pioneering environmental non-proft Redress is taking a major leap forward in a world burdened by fashion waste. Since its inception in 2007, it has been committed to reducing the fashion industry's increasingly burdensome impact on the planet. Now, the organisation has revealed the top 10 global finalists for the Redress Design Award 2025, the world's largest sustainable fashion competition. The 2025 finalists were selected from a competitive pool of applicants spanning 57 regions. Their collections are built on principles of waste reduction, textile reuse and circularity, reflecting a new wave of creative minds determined to reshape the fashion world. More from Tatler: Meet the emerging fashion designers poised to become household names The competition underscores a straightforward message: the industry is in much need of change. With between 100 and 150 billion new garments produced annually, most of which end up in landfills or incinerators, the system of overproduction and overconsumption is pushing the planet to a breaking point. Redress finds that the industry alone generates an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste annually, which is projected to rise by 60-per cent between 2015 and 2030. The finalists are: Casbeth Tshegofatso Marobane (South Africa), Lucie Albert (Germany), Carla Zhang (Mainland China), Mara San Pedro (Philippines), Hawon Park (South Korea), Nathan Moy (Hong Kong), Heyun Pan (Mainland China), Wen Hanzhang (Canada), Hugo Dumas (France) and Yixuan Nie (USA). See also: Patis Tesoro shows no signs of slowing down in her effort to preserve and promote Filipino design
Sky News
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News
Child sexual abuse victims 'denied justice' after compensation scheme scrapped over cost
Sky News can reveal that the government has rowed back on a national compensation scheme for victims of child sexual abuse, despite it being promised under the previous Conservative administration. A National Redress Scheme was one of 20 key recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), but a Home Office report reveals the government has scrapped it because of the cost. Marie, who is 71, suffered alleged sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at Greenfield House Convent in St Helens, Merseyside, between 1959 and 1962, and is still fighting for compensation. As soon as she arrived as a six-year-old, Marie says her hair was cut off, her name changed, and she experienced regular beatings from the nuns and students. She claims a nun instigated the violence, including when Marie was held down so that her legs were "spread-eagled" as she was sexually abused with a coat hanger. Marie has received an apology from the Catholic body that ran the home; she tried to sue them, but her claim was rejected because it was filed too long after the alleged abuse. In February, ministers said the law would change for victims of sexual abuse trying to sue institutions for damages, which was a recommendation from the IICSA. Previously, people had to make a civil claim before they were 21, unless the victim could prove a fair trial could proceed despite the time lapse. Campaigners argued for the time limit to be removed as, on average, victims wait 26 years to come forward. Changes to the 1980 Limitation Act could lead to more people making claims. Civil cases 'can take three to five years' But Peter Garsden, president of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers, worries that when it comes to historical abuse where the defendant is dead, institutions will still argue that it is impossible to have a fair trial and will fight to have the case thrown out of court. Mr Garsden said it takes "between three and five years" for a civil case to get to trial. He warned that claimants "can end up losing if you go through that process. Whereas the Redress Scheme would be quicker, much more straightforward, and much more likely to give justice to the victims". Victim awarded £10 compensation Jimbo, who was a victim of abuse at St Aidan's children's home in Cheshire, took his case to the High Court twice and the Court of Appeal three times, but, after 13 years, all he ended up with was £10 for his bus fare to court. Despite the Lord Justice of Appeal saying he believed that the abuse had occurred, Jimbo lost his claim because of the time limit for child sexual abuse claims to be made. Neither Marie nor Jimbo is likely to benefit from the removal of the time limit for personal injury claims, which is why Mr Garsden is calling on the government to implement a National Redress Scheme for victims of sexual abuse, as recommended by the IICSA. Hundreds of millions paid to victims The governments in Scotland and Northern Ireland have set up compensation schemes and paid hundreds of millions of pounds to victims. In 2023, the then Conservative government said a similar scheme would be organised for England and Wales. But the Home Office admitted in its Tackling Child Sexual Abuse: Progress Update that it "is not currently taking forward any further steps on the IICSA proposal for a separate, national financial redress scheme for all survivors of child sexual abuse". "In the current fiscal environment, this recommendation is very difficult to take forward," it added. For victims, the scheme was the last chance of compensation for a lifetime blighted by abuse. "The money is about justice and about all the other people who have had to suffer this abuse," Marie said.
The Journal
23-04-2025
- Politics
- The Journal
Michael O'Brien, abuse survivor and former mayor of Clonmel, dies aged 92
MunsterAtheist / YouTube MICHAEL O'BRIEN, A survivor of child sexual abuse who famously tackled the government during a televised debate in 2009, has died. He passed away peacefully at his daughter Geraldine's home yesterday at the age of 92. Michael O'Brien, who previously served as Lord Mayor of Clonmel in 1993, was a member of a live studio audience for RTÉ's Questions and Answers programme in 2009. As a child he had spent eight years in St Joseph's Industrial School, also known as Ferryhouse, in Co Tipperary where he was raped and severely beaten. He spoke out following the publication of the Ryan report, which had examined child sexual abuse in Church-led institutions. The report came a decade after the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse was commissioned by the government in 1999. Addressing then-Minister for Transport and Fianna Fáil TD Noel Dempsey, O'Brien detailed his own experiences with the commission, which was published a week before the broadcast. Advertisement O'Brien asked Dempsey if the government would freeze the assets of religious institutions if they didn't pay more into the Redress Board Fund, which had been a topical issue at the time. Dempsey replied that 'it's not a power that the government has'. 'The constitution protects the right to private property,' he said, adding that it wasn't an option for them. In a passionate response to Dempsey, O'Brien told the panel that his account of being raped and beaten had been questioned at the commission of investigation into institutional child abuse by the barristers and judges, and the effect that had on him. He said that he had attempted to take his own life after spending five days at the commission. 'They brought a man over from Rome, 90 odd years of age, to tell me I was telling lies, that I wasn't beaten for an hour non-stop by two of them from head to toe without a shred of cloth on my body,' O'Brien told Dempsey. Shortly after he spoke out, presenter John Bowman said that his speech was the most memorable moment of the show in 23 years. Speaking on an RTÉ documentary filmed years after the programme, O'Brien said that he had 'no idea' what he was going to say until he saw the minister. "And I knew then now or never...", Michael O'Brien explains why he spoke out on Questions & Answers in 2009. #Redress - Breaking the Silence, part 2, tonight, 9.35pm — RTÉ One (@RTEOne) March 3, 2020 But he knew that after Dempsey's answer, that it was 'now or never'. O'Brien is predeceased by his wife Mary. His funeral will take place tomorrow morning at St. Mary's Church in Clonmel. Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
