Fashion brands preparing for the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) regulation can now source verified, compliance-ready textiles directly from a structured, supplier-level data library for the first time, and before the law takes effect. The DPP-Ready Textile Library, available now clicking here. It is the industry's first commercially available collection of materials certified, traceable and structured to the data standard the regulation is moving toward.

The library is built and maintained by World Collective, the global sourcing infrastructure connecting brands with next-generation materials and suppliers, in partnership with Kinset, the digital product passport infrastructure company providing the DPP technology for the pilot.

What just changed for the industry

Until now, brands facing DPP have been pointed in one direction: backwards. Extract data from suppliers they don't directly control. Format it themselves. Submit it through systems that don't yet exist. Hope it holds up under audit. The functioning pilot inverts that. 

For brands, the work is no longer compliance engineering, it's a sourcing decision. Every textile in the library arrives pre-verified at the supplier level, with the data structured in the format DPP is converging on. The compliance burden moves out of the brand's back office and into the supply chain itself, where the data actually originates.

What that unlocks:

• Source-ready compliance. Brands can begin specifying DPP-Ready materials in current collections without waiting for the regulation to finalize or scrambling to retrofit existing supply chains.

• Supplier-verified data. Material composition, fiber origin, environmental footprint and chain-of-custody documentation are captured once, at source, by the suppliers who own that data and structured to flow into any compliance system that needs it.

• A working precedent. The library proves the data architecture the regulation requires can be built and operated today, with real suppliers and real materials.

What's in the library now

The library launches with 9 verified materials from 3 suppliers. Each one is third-party tested, certified, and structured to DPP standards. Additional suppliers are already in the verification pipeline, with new materials being added on a rolling basis.

The starting size is intentional. The architecture is built to scale; the library is growing into it: material by material, supplier by supplier, with each one fully verified before it goes live.

"The regulation is still being defined. The industry has been waiting to find out what the rules will say before acting. What's live today is what stops being optional. Brands sourcing here will not be scrambling when the deadline lands, the compliance work has already been done at the supplier level. That changes what brands can do in the next twelve months," said Jeanine Ballone, Co-Founder and CEO of World Collective.

Why this matters beyond DPP

The same supplier-level data that powers DPP also feeds every other major piece of incoming regulation: Extended Producer Responsibility, CSRD, the Green Claims Directive. A textile that is DPP-ready is, by definition, ready for the regulatory architecture that follows it.

What the library demonstrates, beyond the catalog itself, is that the compliance future of fashion is being built at the supplier layer. The agents that recognize it now will lead the market shift.

Available now

The DPP-Ready Textile Library is live and open to brands clicking here. New materials and suppliers are being added on a rolling basis.

World Collective and Kinset acknowledge that the DPP regulation is still being finalized, and not every requirement has been defined yet. The library is built with that reality in mind. The hardest part of compliance (establishing verified traceability and structured data at the supplier level) has already been done. As specific requirements are confirmed, the library is built to adapt quickly: data fields can be extended, formats can be aligned, and new attributes can be layered on top of an architecture that already holds the foundational truth about each material. What takes most of the industry years to build, brands sourcing here can adjust in weeks.

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About World Collective 

World Collective is a global sourcing infrastructure built for the next era of fashion and textile trade. The platform connects brands, suppliers, material innovators and manufacturers through a shared ecosystem designed for scalable, transparent sourcing, giving brands direct access to 550+ verified materials, from yarns and textiles to next-generation solutions reshaping the industry. 

About Kinset 

Kinset is a SaaS platform that helps brands and suppliers build Digital Product Passports and manage product-level compliance data across complex supply chains. The platform enables standardized data capture, interoperability between systems, and audit-ready product records that can be compiled into DPPs for regulated consumer goods sectors. Kinset works with industry partners to make product compliance practical, verifiable, and scalable in real-world operations.

Media Contact

Júlia Vilaça
Communications Lead, World Collective
julia@world-collective.com