Press Release
V Vissi Fashion Collection by Vickie Au Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Vickie Au for sustainable products, projects and green design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design category for V Vissi Fashion Collection by Vickie Au, designed for V VISSI: revisit. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About V Vissi Fashion Collection
V Vissi is a sustainable fashion collection presented in three series. The first series, Hangers, reuses leftover fabric swatches from mill sample books to create a unisex blazer. The second series, Shade of Green, upcycles development samples and prototypes from garment manufacturers, and several pieces can be worn in two or three ways. The third series, Fabric Story, uses certified and high quality fabrics from Japan and Italy. Printing is digital and uses biodegradable ink. Garments are made on demand to limit inventory waste and to support a circular fashion system.
Award Record
Vickie Au is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Award
The A' Sustainable Product Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good sustainable products by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sustainable product designers, green product manufacturers, eco-friendly product brands and industrial designers from all countries. Typical entries include sustainable projects, environment friendly designs, recycled, upcycled and bio-degradable products. The awarded sustainable product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/sustainable-product
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/120858
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120858
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120858
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/297948
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- V Vissi Fashion Collection
- Function
- Fashion Collection
- Category
- Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sustainability
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- V VISSI : revisit
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Vickie Au
- Country
- Hong Kong (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120858
Credits
- Image Credits
- All photos: Photographer/ William Law All Photos: Models/ Under A1M Model Agency Management. All Designs: Under V Vissi with the IP registration.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This collection aims to co-created with the professional, fashion & apparel stakeholders to design and customize sustainable and ethical products. We believe dress better to unite our community and start something meaningful. We are conscious about style and totally committed to making fashion for good. Sustainable fashion is a process of fostering change to fashion products and what we are doing is a new prospective to the fashion system. We believe that sustainable initiatives are the key to bring positive impacts in making a better environment to the community and world. Three series of merchandise to response and evolve the fashion system from Linear Economy to circular economy.
- Inspiration
- Fashion is the second most polluted industry in the world. The collection of sustainability is providing an option to the sustainable fashion conscious supporters with a fashionable, wearable and affordable designs. We target to bring fashion people to revisit the fashion industry in a sustainable approach.
- Research
- Three merchandise in different materials and garment making method to demonstrate the execution of collection in sustainable way. Series I – Hangers Solution I - Collaborate with supply chain and collecting fabric brunch book from them. Using those leftover fabric swatch to upcycle and redesign. Having the connection with Lanificio F.lli Cerruti, dal 1881, we collected the fabric brunch book and redesign the signature unisex blazer. Series II - Shade of Green Solution II - Cocreate with the manufacturer, collecting their development samples or prototype, upcycling and redesign to give the garment second life or even a more beautiful signature pieces. Solution III – Multi Styling Design.
- Realization and Technology
- Collection of sustainability Three merchandise in different materials and garment making method to demonstrate the execution of collection in sustainable way. Series I, Hangers We collaborate with supply chain and collecting fabric brunch book from them. Using those leftover fabric swatch to upcycle and redesign. Having the connection with Lanificio F.lli Cerruti, dal 1881, we collected the fabric brunch book and redesign the signature unisex blazer. Series II, Shade of Green We co-create with the manufacturer, collecting their development samples or prototype, upcycling and redesign to give the garment second life or even a more beautiful signature pieces.
- Operation and Interaction
- Three series of merchandise to response and evolve the fashion system from Linear Economy to circular economy. Series I – Hangers / Collaborating with different supplier. Using their high-end brunch book fabric and redesign to let consumer to experience the good quality material / fabric in a more customized way. Series II – Shade of Green / Collaborating with different high quality standard manufacturers to cocreate by using their stock to redesign and give the to every pieces of garment and let them to become a master pieces. We choose the factory who are making J Crew and Theory garment for this project.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project had been started since the end of 2018. The collection had been launched at September 0f 2019 at Hong Kong CenterStage with the first fashion show to public which managed by Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The collection had been sent to Shanghai and presented at DFO international (multi label showroom) for 2 weeks. We got the international showroom, showroom, select shop and department store enquiries, such as Printemps/ Paris, Greyhound/ Paris, Lafayette/ Paris, Doors/New York but we didn’t launch even make mass production due to the covid 19.
- Specifications
- Three series of merchandise to response and evolve the fashion system from Linear Economy to circular economy. Series I – Hangers Collaborating with different supplier. Using their high-end brunch book fabric and redesign to let consumer to experience the good quality material or fabric in a more customized way. Series II, Shade of Green Collaborating with different high quality standard manufacturers to cocreate by using their stock to redesign and give the to every pieces of garment and let them to become a master pieces. We choose the factory who are making J Crew and Theory garment for this project.
- Keywords
- sustainable, fashion, sustainability, good quality, BCI, Multi-styling, Luxury Fabric
