*Editorial* **New Research Trends for Textiles**

**Laurent Dufossé**

CHEMBIOPRO Laboratoire de Chimie et Biotechnologie des Produits Naturels, ESIROI Agroalimentaire, Université de La Réunion, 15 Avenue René Cassin, F-97400 Saint-Denis, Ile de La Réunion, France; laurent.dufosse@univ-reunion.fr; Tel.: +262-692402400

The *Textiles* journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, officially launched in 2020. It concerns research and innovation in the field of textile materials. This field is very broad and covers many topics. Textile materials composed of fibers linked by weaving, braiding, knitting, or sewing constitute a wide range of materials and are essential for many applications. They are both ancestral materials used since antiquity and in advanced applications, such as composites in aeronautics or the medical industry [1].

*Textiles*, an open-access international journal by MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), focuses on the broad field of textile materials and topics including, but not limited to, the following: fibers and yarns for textiles, properties, and microstructures; advances in weaving, braiding, and knitting technologies; 3D textiles; nonwovens; structure and properties of high-performance textiles; characterization and testing of textiles; fatigue, damage, and failure of textile; friction in textile materials; simulation in textiles; textile and clothing science; sustainable fibers and textiles; dyeing textiles; microbial [2,3] and plant pigments for the textile industry; microbial enzymes in the textile industry; bio-polishing; bioconversion of waste fabric; microbial wastewater treatment; microbial silk; bacterial cellulose; recycling in textiles; fashion and apparel design; textile composite; preform and prepreg draping; medical textile materials; textile materials for civil engineering applications; geotextiles; smart textiles; protective and thermal protective textiles; textile history and archeology [1].

To date, *Textiles* has published articles that can be found here: https://www.mdpi. com/search?q=&journal=textiles&sort=pubdate&page\_count=50.

In order to demonstrate the huge impact of textile research and technology in the world, the Publisher, the Editorial Board, and myself decided to invite contributions, feature papers, from key world-class researchers which were collected in a single Special Issue entitled 'New world research trends for textiles', from May 2021 to May 2022.

In total, 36 papers were submitted. These 24 papers can be roughly subdivided into four parts: functional textiles; process and modelling; control; consumers and behavior.
