Article: CROSSTOWN MOVE; FOR ITS 20TH EDITION, TEXWORLD CELEBRATED WITH SOME REPOSITIONING.

Byline: MARILISE GAVENAS

LE BORGET, France - If there was a single theme, an overarching metaphor or an economic lesson to be learned from among all the 834 exhibitors from 41 countries at the latest edition of Texworld, it would have to be colonialism. Not the old kind of colonialism where Europe used its economic power to enslave the rest of the world. The new kind, where the former colonies turn the tables by using their own economic power on the Europeans.

A few cases in point: Thai Tex Trends, the government-sponsored consortium of textile companies, which hired an Italian, Marcello Massarente from Mitor, to show its best fabrics to their best ...

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