Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED BY SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF  2002

|I, M. L. (Chip) Fontenot, as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of WestPoint Stevens Inc. (the "Company") certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted by Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to my knowledge
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|Dated:  March 15, 2004                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
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