Juliana Garcia Bello from Argentina has been awarded the prize for womenswear at the Redress Design Award 2020, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design contest that celebrates its 10th birthday this year, beating out hundreds of other designers from 48 countries around the world. Although the Redress Design Award was held virtually this year due to restrictions caused by the pandemic, the top 10 finalists were put through demanding design and business challenges in the weeks leading up to the Grand Final, taking the form of virtual tasks that drew upon real life sustainability cases with a focus on waste generated as a byproduct of COVID-19.

The pandemic has upended life as we know it, and with nationwide lockdowns, transportation delays and shipping cancellations, the fashion industry and retail climate have been left to stagnate with stranded materials left in warehouses, factories and stores across the globe. The 2020 Redress Design Award sought to catalyse the circular economy at such a crucial point in time, with the finalists’ collections demonstrating the various solutions to reduce waste throughout the entire fashion supply chain and also across industries.

 

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Womenswear Prize of the #RedressDesignAward 2020 goes to @garciabello_! She will be working with award-winning up-cycled fashion brand The R Collective @thercollective in Hong Kong and London to design, manufacture and market her own 10-piece womenswear capsule collection. Congratulations Juliana! In addition to the main prize provided by The R Collective, Juliana will also receive a one-year full subscription to access all areas of @bloomsburyfashion, a high-performance lockstitch machine and an overlock sewing machine from @juki.jp. Pueden ver la premiación completa, buscando el link en mi bio.

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