Regulation-Aware Product Development
A practical training programme for freelance product developers, technical designers and garment specialists working with fashion brands selling into the EU.
AT GLANCE
COURSE • WAITLIST
1yr
7
25
access to all materials and Q&A recordings
recorded modules, released weekly, with live Q&A support
participants max, so homework review stays personal
EU TEXTILE REGULATIONS ARE ALREADY CHANGING WHAT CLIENTS EXPECT FROM PRODUCT DEVELOPERS
Product development is no longer separate from regulation
WHY NOW
How durable the product is
Whether it can be repaired, recycled
How it is designed and constructed
What materials and trims are used
What suppliers can prove
What information is captured along the way
What claims can be supported later
What product data may need to be available in the future
For product developers, this does not mean becoming a lawyer. It means understanding where these changes touch the decisions you already make.
Upcoming EU textile rules are starting to touch the product itself - from the very first design and development decisions.
For a long time, sustainability and regulation were treated as something that happened later. A brand would design the product, produce it, and only then think about claims, documentation, certifications, impact or reporting. That separation is becoming harder to maintain.
WHEN A CLIENT ASKS, "Can we say this is durable?" OR "Will this be okay for the Digital Product Passport?", YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO ASK, WHAT TO FLAG, WHAT TO DOCUMENT AND WHERE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS
FIT • OPPORTUNITY
The course is for you if you work close to the product
Most conversations around EU textile regulation focus on burden - more rules, more data, more proof, more pressure on brands. That is true. But there is another side to this shift.
As regulation moves towards operations, product developers who understand it early stop being asked only to execute decisions.
They start being brought in earlier, before the material is chosen, before the claim is written, before the supplier is confirmed, before the tech pack is treated as just a production document, before a client makes a promise they cannot support.
YOU DON'T NEED TO ALREADY UNDERSTAND EU TEXTILE REGULATIONS IN DETAIL. YOU NEED TO BE INTERESTED IN WHERE THE INDUSTRY IS GOING AND HOW THAT MAY AFFECT THE WAY YOU WORK WITH PRODUCTS, SUPPLIERS AND CLIENTS
This is about becoming better prepared for the conversations clients are likely to start having with you
COMING SOON
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FORMAT
How the program works
This is a recorded course with live support, running for 1.5 months.
Each week, new material is released for you to watch in your own time. You can submit questions while going through it, and ask live - both are answered during the live Q&A sessions.
A small group, on purpose
Limited to 25 participants - not for artificial scarcity, but because the course includes live Q&A and homework review. That keeps the Q&A a real conversation, and leaves room to respond to the questions that come up when people apply the material to their own work.
WHAT WE'LL COVER
07
Seven modules built around your workflow
WHERE THIS COMES FROM
Built from real product developer experiences & questions
This course began with a simple question:
What do the upcoming EU textile rules actually mean for the people developing the product?
After speaking with product developers, conversations were turned into live pilot sessions to test the topic.
And the pilot confirmed something important: the value was not in explaining regulation for the sake of regulation. It was in showing where it lands - in design choices, supplier questions, tech packs, product data, claims and client conversations.
This course is the expanded version of that pilot.
Brigita is an educator and business strategist working at the intersection of EU textile regulation, fashion business and product development workflows. Through Next Step of Fashion, she helps fashion professionals and small fashion businesses understand EU textile regulation in simple language and turn it into practical actions they can actually use.
She is not a lawyer, and this course is not legal advice. Her role in this programme is to help you understand what is changing, where it touches the work you already do, and how to start building that awareness into your process, your documentation and your client conversations.
Brigita, founder of Next Step of Fashion
Not theory. Not legal review. The real operational shift - explained through the work that happens before a product reaches the market.
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FAQ
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Common questions
BEFORE IT'S URGENT
Be ready before it becomes an urgent client question
EU textile rules are starting to affect product decisions much earlier - from concept and design, through materials, suppliers, tech packs, sampling and claims. Be the person who already knows where to look, what to ask, and what to flag.