With the CTAF, which is now held annually at Le Bourget Hall 3, in Paris on 17th September, 2007, Texworld offers its visitors an opportunity to meet Chinese clothing manufacturers - who are developing an expertise and a branding policy that can demonstrate that they, too, have the ability to become leaders in the world of fashion.

And eleven companies from China, such as White Collar ,Ellassay, Smart, Fish , etc. presented their latest collections at the Fashion Show.

CTAF is sponsored by the China National Textile and Apparel Council - CNTAC, the Sub-council of the Textile Industry – CCPIT, and the China National Garment Association – CNGA, which organises “Chic”, the most important Fashion exhibition in China.

Visitors to Hall 3 at Texworld found cashmere pullovers and silk dresses, as well as men’s suits in fine wool, sportswear and fine household linen - quality items at competitive prices, and all to be found in one special pavilion - an “Exhibition inside the Exhibition”  by the China Textile and Apparel Trade Fair, CTAF. China wishes to develop a real policy of quality branded products and hence to demonstrate that there exists a vast potential for its creativity to be publicised and recognised, in step with the demands of the Western market.

For this purpose, Texworld and the expertise of the Messe Frankfurt Group have recently been selected to promote China’s textile and clothing industry in a special pavilion, the China Textile and Apparel Trade Fair at Texworld in Paris, capital of the fashion industry. A cooperation agreement for this purpose has just been signed by Detlef Braun, Director of the Textile sector, and Zhang Yankai, executive vice-president of the Sub-council of the Textile Industry, CCPIT. The CTAF offers to the visitors a new focus with finished products: fashion garments for woman, man and child as well as home textiles, apparel fabrics and accessories.

This cooperation has been made possible thanks to the close collaborative links formed over more than 15 years between  Messe Frankfurt and its Chinese partners. Messe Frankfurt is involved in many important textile exhibitions in China, including: Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics and Hometextile, Intertextile Beijing and Yarn Expo.

Texworld has always been attentive to the development of fresh markets and has evolved  by offering new services to both exhibitors and visitors, such as the “Full Package” sector at last February’s event, which was a confirmed success. So, the addition of the clothing section was a logical development with which to inaugurate this new Pavilion.

Indeed, the trend in the majority of trade exhibitions is now to offer their international purchasers the widest possible range of products, so as to optimise their movements and purchases.