{"id":343755,"date":"2014-10-02T14:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/uncategorized-hk\/finalists-announced-ecochic-design-award-201415-343755.html"},"modified":"2019-05-04T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:00:56","slug":"finalists-announced-ecochic-design-award-201415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/hk\/galerie\/finalists-announced-ecochic-design-award-201415-343755.html","title":{"rendered":"Finalists announced for The EcoChic Design Award 2014\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"  <p>As the first international sustainable fashion design competition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/fashion\/latest-news\/the-ecochic-design-award-2014-announced-its-winners-at-hong-kong-fashion-week-6962.html\">The EcoChic Design Award<\/a> encourages designers who share a common goal of reducing waste in the industry. For its fifth cycle, 10 emerging designers from the around the globe were announced, including one from Singapore.<\/p> <p>The finalists are:<br \/> Cher, Carman Chan (Hong Kong)<br \/> K\u00e9vin Germanier (UK)<br \/> Aya, Xiating Qi (Mainland China)<br \/> No\u00eblla Tapasu Koy (France)<br \/> Yvonne, Tien Chun Tsai (Taiwan)<br \/> Amandah Andersson (Sweden)<br \/> Laurensia Salim (Singapore)<br \/> Kirstine Marie Hansen (Denmark)<br \/> Veronica, Hsiao Huei Lee (Malaysia)<br \/> Victor, Shing Hong Chu (Hong Kong)<\/p> <p>Now, before the finalists reconvene at Hong Kong Fashion Week in January 2015, the designers will\u00a0 form their six\u00a0piece collection using textile waste sourced by themselves from China\u2019s factories to Switzerland\u00b4s Army to Singapore\u00b4s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/fashion\/check-out-our-favourite-picks-from-the-fashion-world-just-for-you\/ootd-pre-loved-luxury-35654.html\">secondhand stores<\/a>. In this manner, their limits of creativity will be put to the test as the designers will need to showcase an innovate use of textile waste into designs using any of three sustainable design techniques - up-cycling, reconstruction or zero-waste.<\/p> <p>Singapore's Laurensia Salim, a student at Raffles Design Institute, will utilise<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/fashion\/asia-style\/inverted-edge-and-style-tribute-introduces-lux-upcycling-8421.html\">\u00a0up-cycling<\/a> and reconstruction as her design techniques to create beautiful pieces of art inspired by the sea and its creatures. We can already image it to be quite the ethereal collection filled with shades of azure blue and emerald greens perhaps.<\/p> <p>\"<em style=\"color: #000000\">The fashion industry is a very wasteful industry that has a huge negative impact on the environment. To me, sustainable fashion means a better way of enjoying style that is harmless to the environment. I want to be a sustainable fashion designer because I simply want to make garments that don\u2019t harm anyone or anything.\" said Salim.\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <p>Since the industry\u00a0has often been blasted for creating a mammoth amount of waste, having a design award that champions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/fashion\/asia-style\/interview-danielle-champagne-zhai-36360.html\">sustainable design <\/a>is most definitely the ideal\u00a0step in the right direction.<\/p> <p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oo2BZ-FyeZo<\/p> <p><em>Tarandip Kaur<\/em><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hong Kong to France to Singapore, the sustainable design fashion competition unveiled the next set of finalists for its fifth cycle of the event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":45800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"From Hong Kong to France to 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