TEXWORLD PARIS --- Feb. 2013

Basic Information

【Name of Exhibition】    TEXWORLD Paris France

【Date of Exhibition】     12 – 13 Feb, 2013

【Official Web】      http://texworld.messefrankfurt.com/paris/fr/visitors/visittexworld.html

【Exhibition Venue 】     Parc des expositions du Bourget

【Numbers of Attendance】 more than 600 exhibitors

【Numbers of Visitors】    Around 16,000 visitors

Brief Introduction

EVENT PROFILE

Texworld has become more than a place where people meet to do business. It’s a leading buying destination for variety material of fabrics, which serves for ready to wear like women’s wear, young fashion, children’s wear, lingerie, swimwear, wedding wear, and accessories.

This expiation held twice a year, every February and September, which continually attracts over 16,000 visitors each season. This February at Paris exposition Bourget, visitors will find the Spring/Summer 2014 trends of material.

Over 600 international suppliers attend in the indispensable platform for professional encounters for fabrics and clothing. All the textile solutions - fabrics, clothing, trims and accessories in one place.

Texworld’s aim was to develop a new approach, a different way of exploring the aisles and discovering the trends, creating a true call to the senses.

Texworld has developed an innovative project: Designers & Fashion, Fabric Experience, a true sensory trip. Indeed, the show looks to suffuse its visitors and exhibitors with the latest trends, to have them touch and feel the materials, for an ever-more-lively visit. Texworld is the worldwide meeting place for fabrics, but also for trims and accessories.

VISITOR'S PROFILE

The TEXWORLD Paris is an ideal sourcing event for brands, manufactures and global buyers. Over thousand visitors from department store, Chain Store, Fashion Licenses/Agent, Importers, Wholesalers, Distributors/Retailers, Brand Name, Boutique, E-tailers, Manufacturers, Media & other related professionals attend each season, not only to get the new trends of fabrics, looking for new cooperators and suppliers, but also place orders for next season.

 EXHIBITOR'S PROFILE

About 700 fabrics manufacturers from 27 countries, contains: Cotton, Denim, Embroidery, Lace, Functional fabrics, Knitted fabrics, Linen, Hemp, Prints, Shirting, Silk, Silky aspect, Wool, wool blends.

About a hundred eco-friendly certified exhibitors this time in the exhibition (GOTS, Organic Exchange, FLO-cert Oeko-Tex...) for ensure that Texworld is also the place to go work with green.

The exhibitors are generally fabrics companies and there are a limited number of ready to wear companies. The main purpose of the exhibitors was promoting their products and increasing their brand awareness. Some exhibitors participating in the exhibition by group have got a relatively better result. We did an interview with some smaller exhibitors and the result shows that they did not get very good results. They also expressed a willingness to cooperate with the global market.

Product Range

Strict essence

1.      Linen, hemp

2.      Shirting

3.      Wool

4.      Wool aspects

Most of the exhibitors of linen come from China, but two exceptions from Belgium and Netherland.

Some ready to wear brands take part in also.

Egypt, Turkey and China are impressive on the wool.

Casual view

1.      Cotton

2.      Denim

3.      Knitted fabrics

4.      Function fabrics

For this sector, the majority of the exhibitors come from Turkey and China, and also some come from Pakistan and Thailand. Especially for Denim, except Chinese and Pakistanis, only three India are the exceptions.

For function fabrics, South Korean is the one who leads the sector. And every country share a market of Knitted fabrics, among those exhibitors, China owns more booths.

Attractive spirit

1.      Cotton

2.      Silk

3.      Embroidery , lace

4.      Knitted fabrics

5.      Prints

6.      Silky aspects

Embroidery is the strong point of Southern Asia, and Southeast Asia like India, Thailand. China, including China Hong Kang, and China Taiwan, also are the strong competitors.

And Prints shared by South Korea, China, Turkey, Egypt and India. China manipulates the trends and holds the major manufactory of silk.

Trims & Accessories

A few companies join in this part of show, because normally for them, FETEX is a better choice. But, indeed, there are some button manufactures and trim makers. The less completion helps them attract good visitors.

Seminar & Catwalk Programme

——— Sustainable sourcing itinerary and Trend Forums

This edition of Texworld showcases about a hundred of organic cotton and linen, hemp, recycled material and other sustainable textiles. Many of them are holding certificates such as GOTS, Organic Exchange, SA8000, WRAP and other standards. A practical “Sustainable sourcing itinerary” will guide you to all eco suppliers on the trade fair and a selection of sustainable fabrics can be found at the Trend Forum.

Buyer’s view

Visitors are constituted of buyers, trade agents, fashion designer and fashion institute students. GM interests buyers and trading company, some designers also hope to find the fabrics in which they are interested  from GM's data library. Buyers, including garment factories and trading companies, they still search better cost-effective, safe and reliable supply channels and honest manufacturers. Some of them had worked directly with Chinese manufacturers before, but suffered heavy losses because of the other's breach. Therefore, the good reputation and reliability of the GM platform has become a very important advantage to attract them.

Some trade agents hope to open up markets of their own country on the basis of a win-win for the GM. Overall, the show made more people know and understand the main concept of GM. Some manufacturers hope to join GM's large family and others hope that they can get stable, credible and cost-effective purchase channels through the GM.

Spring/Summer 2014 Fabric Trend

1.      Light colors

aqua blue, light lilac and aqua blue)

2.      Fabrics

Fresh taffeta, sporty wool, fusible mesh and open-work fabric