Hugo Dumas wins Redress Design Awards 2025 with capsule collection featuring Recover™ recycled cotton fiber

French emerging designer Hugo Dumas has been named a joint winner one of the joint winners of the prestigious Redress Design Award 2025, the world’s leading sustainable fashion competition. His five-look capsule collection was unveiled on Thursday, 4 September, during Hong Kong Fashion Week, which also marked the event’s 15th anniversary.

Dumas is the first French winner of the competition and shares the top honor with Carla Zhang from Mainland China. This marks the first time the competition has awarded two First Prize winners, a decision made by the judges, who praised both collections for offering “distinctly outstanding circular solutions, worthy of equal support to amplify impact.”

Supported by DHL, the First Prize winners will receive mentorship, the exclusive opportunity to showcase their competition collections at the Shanghai GREENEXT Expo 2025, and a limited-edition retail collaboration with renowned creative Flora Cheong-Leen, in partnership with the Tian Art Foundation.

A collection featuring Recover™ recycled cotton fibers

Hugo Dumas’ capsule collection stands out for its commitment to recyclability and circular design. Each look follows monocolor and monofiber principles, with external elements designed for easy removal, to simplify future recycling processes.

The collection features quilted pieces including a long coat, blazer, trousers, jacket, and accessories such as a handbag and a Gavroche-style cap, all in black or white. The outer fabric combines Recover™ recycled cotton fibers with RCS-certified organic cotton, produced in collaboration with Polopiqué.

What sets the collection apart is its use of Recover™ RCotton fibers, made from 100% recycled cotton, as padding for the quilted garments. This ensures that each piece remains monofiber and monocolor throughout, even in the inner layers.

According to our Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) externally validated by EcoReview (2025), Recover™ recycled cotton fibers deliver substantial environmental benefits, using 99.9% less water and generating 93% fewer CO₂ emissions than conventional cotton.

The inspiration behind the collection

Titled “The Peri-Urbans", Hugo Dumas’ collection unveils an intimate take about himself and his home region, the Essonne, in France. Celebrating his uncertainties and dualities, his silhouettes highlight the person he grew up to be. Someone both masculine and feminine, both rural and urban, both artisanal and industrial.

"I’ve come to understand that creation is pollution, that every garment, even when designed to last, is meant to be seen as ‘soon-to-be-waste.’ My collection meets the criteria of the ESPR rules, because by planning their end of life, we also plan their next life."

We are proud to support emerging designers like Hugo Dumas, whose work embodies the innovation and responsibility needed to transform the fashion industry. As part of our sustainability strategy, our Agents of Change pillar is dedicated to driving environmental progress and accelerating the shift toward circularity and sustainability in fashion and textiles. Supporting Hugo in the Redress Design Awards is a reflection of this commitment, amplifying the impact of circular design and helping to foster meaningful change.