President Ingeborg Neumann & Premier Armin Laschet – Picture by Gesamtverband textil+mode.
Wednesday, 5 June 2019, Berlin, Representation of North Rhine-Westphalia to the German Federation: On World Environment Day approximately 300 guests gathered to attend the première of a fashion collaboration between the Gesamtverband textil+mode and the representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Under the motto “NRW makes fashion”, the fashion industry hosted the function to highlight sustainable fashion through the FASHION FORWARD show organised by the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. In total 40 young women and men had travelled from Mönchengladbach with their own designs, and enthralled the guests with their statements for textile future.
During his welcoming allocution, NRW Premier Armin Laschet addressed the great importance of the textile and fashion industry in North Rhine-Westphalia, and praised the high environmental and social standards of German companies.
For the President of the General Association of the German Textile and Fashion Industry, Ingeborg Neumann, the first PolitFashionNight in Berlin was a successful prelude to presenting the innovative strength of medium-sized textile companies on the political stage.
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