News from the textile industry

HORECA clothing on a makeover
Workwear in the food retail, bakery, catering and hotel industries has changed from traditional colours to individual, fashionable designs. Manufacturers offer extensive colour palettes and coordinated men's and women's styles that are based on current fashion trends.

AI determines the most important textile innovations
Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Deepseek are now part of everyday life. They create and optimise texts, enable a ‘dialogue-based exchange’ or help answer a wide range of questions. In a self-experiment, I wanted to know which are the most innovative textiles of the past decade. Some of the answers are surprising.


Lemming Journalism: Copying Each Other Until the EU Intervenes
Die Fashionunited vom 27.12.2024 mutmaßte, dass Baumwolle zukünftig in der EU verboten werden könnte. Das Verbraucherportal chip.de, Zeitungen, Rundfunkanstalten und Infoportale stürzten sich auf die Meldung des drohenden Aus für Baumwolle und verbreiteten die Hiobsbotschaft ungefiltert weiter: schlechte Nachrichten verkaufen sich immer besser als gute!

