GoldenEye Wins Avantex Fashion Pitch 2025 Award

The Avantex Fashion Pitch 2025 jury has awarded its top prize to GoldenEye Smart Vision for its AI-powered textile quality control system. This innovative solution enhances the detection of fabric defects, improving customer satisfaction, streamlining production efficiency, and cutting raw material waste.

In addition, the jury presented a special award to Green Worms, an Indian micro-enterprise that has built a localized waste collection and processing model. The initiative not only advances recycling but also creates sustainable employment for women from marginalized communities.

“The jury members were impressed by the outstanding quality of the projects submitted this year,” said Claudia Franz, Director of Brand Management Apparel Fabrics & Fashion at Messe Frankfurt. “By recognising GoldenEye Smart Vision and awarding Green Worms, we are highlighting solutions that respond to today’s most pressing challenges,” she added.

Julien Schmoll, Director of Marketing and Communications at Messe Frankfurt France, noted, “The jury’s choices reflect the growing importance of digitalisation in textile production and the ongoing transformation of the fashion sector, especially in relation to CSR. These are strategic directions we strongly encourage and support.”

GoldenEye Smart Vision will receive a prize package including a stand worth €2,800 at Avantex Paris 2026, €1,000 from Messe Frankfurt France, €1,000 from the Texpertise Network, a one-year VLGE subscription (worth €30,000), one year of incubation at IFA Paris’s Foundry (€4,500), a keynote slot at Circular Textile Days, and coverage in Luxiders Magazine.

Green Worms will benefit from €1,000 from Texpertise Network, a marketing package from Circular Textile Days, and a consultation by Jayne Simone Estève-Curé.

The 8th edition of Avantex Fashion Pitch, organized by Messe Frankfurt France, recognized the most innovative, sustainable, and impactful projects shaping the future of fashion. Eleven finalists — including Adirelounge, Ananas Fashion, CQ Studio, Delfi, Garment By, Green Worms, GoldenEye Smart Vision, Myth AI, Sequinova, Meddle, and Style Shifter — each had five minutes to present their ideas before an expert jury.