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Article: SHOPPING CENTER; WASHABLE WOOL SUITS, NO-IRON COTTON SHIRTS ... TEXWORLD OFFERED IT ALL, AND MORE.(Texworld)(clothing industry trade show)
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- Daily News Record
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- September 26, 2005
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Byline: Marilise Gavenas
PARIS -- Texworld is to Premiere Vision as a suburban shopping mall is to the Faubourg Saint-Honore. One ends up outfitting lots and lots of people. The other ends up with lots and lots of press and prestige.
Last week, both held their usual semiannual, nearly simultaneous sessions at their usual venues on the outskirts of Paris. The 17th edition of Texworld started first, ran Monday through Thursday, staged in -- yep, you guessed it -- a suburban shopping center surrounding the Grande Arche de la Defense, and crammed with 619 exhibitors from 43 countries peddling every commercially viable variation of fiber and fabric (up to ...