According to the statistics of the Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong discards more than 390 tons of textiles every day, which is equivalent to discarding about 1,580 T-shirts per minute. Redress, a non-profit organization, recruits designers around the world to participate in sustainable fashion design competitions every year to awaken the public. A focus on recyclable fashion systems.
Among the top ten finalists in this year's finals, the only local designer, Lam Chi-Fu, found that Hong Kong's fashion design brands discarded used samples and fabrics at will or sent them directly to landfills. He reused different discarded materials this time. Made into British Mod style military coats and trousers, hoping to change the fast-food culture of Hong Kong people and their counterparts who pursue trendy styles and change clothes every season.
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Form five family political halls developed an interest in sewing personalised clothing
Patrick Lam, a 28-year-old Hong Kong designer, has been in the fashion industry for about 4 years. He says he was born in a "house village boy" in Tai Po. After , sewing and making clothes, he began to have an interest. After that, he continued to study and enrolled in fashion design courses. After graduation, he began to join the design industry.
He tries to sew new clothes every time he learns new techniques or materials, and he describes the biggest transformation as when he switched to another local fashion brand two years ago.
"I met a good boss. Before he taught me how to make a shirt, I had to go back to the history of him. After reviewing the historical data, I could make a solid design."
Hope to awaken consumers and peers not to over-chasing the culture of fast-food ready-to-wear
During the initial data collection of a certain work, Patrick accidentally touched the British Mod subculture that emerged in the 1960s and found its uniqueness.
"𠵱This culture is about a group of people who don't follow traditional ideas, and really want to go out and be their own young people. It inspired me to think clearly that I should follow the fashion industry when I design, and I want you to do it. , or do you have a set of ideas for yourself?” So he devoted himself to research and tried to integrate Mod into his personal fashion style. This year, he took it as the theme and signed up for the Redress fashion design competition. The top ten designers who have emerged from these works and become the only representative of Hong Kong people are currently busy sewing conceptual design drawings into real objects. All materials are collected from discarded fabrics or finished samples in the company, including nylon (nylon ), wool, denim, and ripstop fabrics, stitched together into a set of clothing that combines military jackets and formal wear. The design concept is based on timeless styles, using Reconstruction and upcycling methods re-use discarded fabrics into a reusable and durable new garment.
Although he has not been in the business for a long time, Patrick has a deep understanding of "Seeing that many companies dispose of different fabrics or finished samples at will or send them directly to landfills, this behavior is a bad habit, so I first want to design 𠵱 The The Mod series of fashion, to remind all my colleagues before throwing it away, does it have a value to reuse it?"
He said that with the change of the times, Hong Kong consumers prefer fast-food ready-to-wear clothing, and it has become a habit to change clothes every season. As a result, fashion brands have to follow consumers' tastes and no longer focus on quality. This consumption pattern has also contributed to the increase of discarded ready-to-wear clothing. .
In order to reduce the occurrence of these wastes, he hopes to awaken the public's attention to environmental protection through this fashion series.
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Organised by Redress, with Hong Kong SAR Government "Creative Hong Kong" as the main sponsor, the "Redress Design Competition" is held in Hong Kong every year. This year, it received more than 400 applications from 47 countries and regions, including those who participated in the competition for the first time. Guatemala, Myanmar, Rwanda and Slovakia, while the top ten designers, including designers from Spain, India, Italy, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong, will showcase emerging emerging at the finals in Hong Kong in September and sustainable fashion design collections.
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