Prestige, Sept 2023

Reflecting on the results of this year’s Redress Design Awards, the NGO’s founder Christina Dean comments on the state of fashion consumerism in Hong Kong: Consumers expect the brands to be more responsible, and the bar for the brands’ behaviour has risen. Companies need to be accountable and not just nonprofits need to be battling away corporations – businesses that have the power to do enormous good. We need new legislation, but the problem is, that trying to legislate the fashion industry is like playing Whack a Mole because you legislate one area, they move to a different one.