Nuria BordasCreative Direction & Sustainable Product Strategy
Sustainability & Compliance

Regulation, designed in

EU textile regulation is decided at product level: in the fibre, the supplier, the data behind a label. I work where design and compliance meet, so requirements are met in the product calendar rather than bolted on at the end.

150+suppliers brought into a Textile Exchange Chain of Custody system I designed and implemented
7months from start to audit readiness
0findings at the first external audit

Compliance in the product

Tatuum · since 2024
  • Designed and implemented the Textile Exchange Chain of Custody system single-handedly across more than 150 suppliers, covering process mapping, documentation, governance and training.
  • Secured the company’s Leather Working Group membership, FSC licence and UN Global Compact participation, and wrote the internal compliance and communication requirements behind each.
  • Work across Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Digital Product Passport (DPP) and ESPR: assessing what each requires at product level and preparing the data, traceability and supplier documentation needed to meet them.
  • Review sustainability claims for substantiation, so what appears on a label or in marketing holds up against the evidence behind it.
  • Partner with sourcing, quality and legal to keep compliance inside the product calendar.

Shaping regulation

Textile Voice Poland · Board Member · since 2026

Board Member of the employers’ association for the Polish textile industry, which brings together manufacturers, brands and distributors to shape regulation on circular economy, extended producer responsibility and ecodesign.

I sit in working groups on EU Extended Producer Responsibility as it is shaped for textiles, bringing the perspective of companies that will have to implement it: what a proposed requirement means at product level, what it costs operationally, and where it breaks against how a brand actually works.

The seat matters mainly for timing: working with regulation while it is still being formed, rather than reading it once it is published and already fixed.

Digital Product Passport

DPP in Fashion Working Group · since 2026

A cross-industry working group preparing the Polish textile sector for the EU Digital Product Passport, convened by the Institute for Sustainable Development and Environment at Lazarski University together with GS1 Poland.

I work with organisations across the sector on practical implementation: data requirements, product identification standards and industry readiness.

Teaching

MSKPU, International School of Costume and Fashion Design · since 2023

I teach Fashion Design at a school built around sustainable practice, where sustainability is a requirement of the brief rather than an optional theme.

I bring the regulatory picture into the studio: what EPR, DPP and ESPR will mean for students entering the industry now, so they meet these requirements as designers rather than receiving them later as someone else’s compliance problem. I also supervise graduation collections from concept through to presentation.

Areas of work

  • EPR for textiles
  • Digital Product Passport
  • ESPR & ecodesign
  • Textile Exchange CCS
  • Leather Working Group
  • FSC
  • UN Global Compact
  • Green claims
  • Supplier traceability
  • ESG strategy

Working on EPR or DPP readiness?

I am open to panels, industry working groups, teaching and professional conversations on EU textile regulation.

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