Golden Eye scoops Avantex innovation award
15/09/2025
The award winner this year is an AI-powered solution to automate fabric quality monitoring, developed by Paris-based Golden Eye. Founded in 2020, it has now moved on to full production. The technology produces a photographic digital twin of entire bolts of fabric with all defects identified by an AI agent. “This is a particularly fastidious task for a human,” said company founder Thomas Isnard. In real-life trials, the device has been found to increase sell-through (by 10%), improve material usage (by 15%) and reduce lead times to 2 to 8 weeks. Mr Isnard insists that the solution is not only for the luxury sector but also for mass-market fabric mills.
A second award was handed over to Green Worms, a company in India that seeks to improve the livelihoods of used garment pickers by providing them with extra income.
The textile and sourcing show owned and operated by Messe Frankfurt has moved back to the Le Bourget exhibition centre and is running from September 15 to 17. It is the first time, the organisers said, that both sections, the textile and the garment manufacturing shows are of equal size. A milestone due to an increase in exhibitors for the apparel sourcing show. A total of 1,300 companies are exhibiting.
Next to the usual country pavilions, for Turkey, China, India, Korea, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Taiwan, are newcomers Armenia and Kirgizstan. Near shoring is a focus for the apparel sourcing event. A Near Souring Hub, managed by digital sourcing platform Foursource, is hosting ten European garment manufacturers at this edition.
A dense programme of conferences is also scheduled during the three-day event. Highlights include a session dedicated to the evolution of legislation and to textile-to-textile recycling, with Andreas Dorner of Re&Up, Silvio Botto of Botto Giuseppe, Stéphane Popescu of COSE361 and Lucie Ladigue of the Cradle to Cradle product innovation institute (C2CPII). The third and last day will be dedicated to social and material innovation, an event called Bio Fashion Innovation Day and organised by the Textile & Clothing Business Labs, a European network seeking to support a fairer and more resilient fashion textile and apparel industry.
Pictured: Thomas Isnard pitching at Avantex
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