Summit 2024
Impressions of our anniversary party 2024
Imagine being invited to a family party and being asked to wash old laundry! That's what happened last Friday evening at the anniversary celebration of Swiss Textiles. Only in a figurative sense, of course. Under the motto 150 years of impact, the industry association invited its members to wash out old clichés about the industry in the specially remodelled Riithalle restaurant. We share with you the best impressions in our picture gallery!
If Swiss Textiles had not just held its General Assembly and if it were not the anniversary year of the industry association, one would have expected a wedding party or family celebration on the garden terrace of the Riithalle restaurant on this sultry Friday evening.
The General Assembly 2024 was very well visited.
Many thanks, Swiss Textiles, for the super-inspiring evening.
Long tables covered in white under brightly lit garlands and parasols. Representatives of the Federal Administration, long-standing partners and members were seated at these tables. Over 300 in total. The next day, some of them will leave comments under the pictures on social media such as: ‘Many thanks, Swiss Textiles, for the super-inspiring evening’ or ‘Many thanks to the whole Swiss Textiles team for the wonderful evening. Lots of exciting conversations and a great exchange!"
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We are family
A big family party celebrating its coming together under the motto 150 years of impact describes the event aptly. The older generation meets the young. Traditional textile craftsmanship meets new processes for highly functional fabrics for medicine, architecture and transport. The industry is sitting at the same table as the laboratory, fashion alongside sustainability and technology, toasting the abolition of industrial tariffs at the beginning of the year with economic policy. And to the future of the industry.In this respect, the big gathering of relatives last Friday was like any other family reunion. Only without the unpleasant uncle or the annoying cousin, who are better avoided at such events and where the relatives actually have fun.
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Textile industry? Does it still exist?
"Textiles? They're clothes"
Every growing large family needs a well-organised household and someone to ensure its continued existence. ‘Together, we are washing out old clichés about our industry,’ wrote Swiss Textiles somewhat cryptically in its invitation to members a few months earlier. They finally experienced what was meant by this in the scenography of the party, which was spread across several rooms.
After the so-called ‘walk through the past’ at the beginning, the flags with statements such as ‘Textile industry? Does it still exist?’ or ’Textiles? These are clothes’ and piles of clothes on the side of the floor, the route continued through a washing line with long, colourful floating noodles. The main area, which had been converted into a laundry room, greeted them with full washing machines, painted ironing boards with irons, colourful detergent bottles and zines hung with trousers, jumpers and bras above their heads.A breath of fresh air for the future
Every growing large family needs a well-organised household and someone to ensure its continued existence. ‘Together, we are washing out old clichés about our industry,’ wrote Swiss Textiles somewhat cryptically in its invitation to members a few months earlier. They finally experienced what was meant by this in the scenography of the party, which was spread across several rooms.
After the so-called ‘walk through the past’ at the beginning, the flags with statements such as ‘Textile industry? Does it still exist?’ or ’Textiles? These are clothes’ and piles of clothes on the side of the floor, the route continued through a washing line with long, colourful floating noodles. The main area, which had been converted into a laundry room, greeted them with full washing machines, painted ironing boards with irons, colourful detergent bottles and zines hung with trousers, jumpers and bras above their heads.