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.

Deadline for applications is 15th August and you can find full details of the competition here: www.ecochicdesignaward.com.

This competition is the perfect way to learn the theory and techniques behind creating high-fashion designs using minimal waste innovations encouraging zero-waste, up-cycling and reconstruction. If your designs are forward-thinking, eco-friendly and in search of a platform to shine then make sure you fill in the application form RIGHT HERE.