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Luxury & fashion
Ready-to-Wear & Couture
A verified identity sewn into every garment, from atelier to resale.
QR + NFCDPP
The challenge
Ready-to-wear and couture face industrial-grade counterfeiting, with copies entering the same wholesale and online channels as genuine pieces. Care labels and woven tags are easily cloned or swapped, leaving boutiques, clients and a fast-growing resale market unable to confirm authenticity. Grey-market diversion, return fraud and unauthorised reproductions erode both margin and brand equity.
The SealTrust answer
SealTrust assigns each garment a unique cryptographic identity anchored on-chain at the point of manufacture, tied to the maison rather than to a copyable label. A scan confirms authenticity, model, season and ownership history in seconds, while transfers record legitimate resale and expose duplicated identities. Each piece carries a Digital Product Passport covering materials, origin and care across its full lifecycle.
What you get
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Instant authentication for boutiques, clients and resale platforms
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Tamper-evident proof that survives returns, repairs and resale
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Verified lifecycle data that supports circularity and second-hand value
The forensic layer
A convincing fake can copy a label. Copying the chip's cryptographic behaviour, and fooling the scan-pattern analysis behind it, is another matter.
- Clone detection: when the same identity appears in two distant places at once, when a scan counter rolls backwards, or when a previous code is replayed, the system flags it.
- Live trust score: every scan feeds a rule-based trust signal, so suspicious activity surfaces instead of slipping through.
- Grey-market alerts: the brand lists the countries where it distributes, for the whole brand or per model. A verified chip scan, a signed QR check or a sale declared by a store outside them raises an alert in its console, once per item and country in 24 hours, with a status to follow up. Opening a passport from a printed code or a shared link does not raise one.
- Protected transfers: ownership changes require OTP/TOTP confirmation. A stolen session is not enough to move a product.
QR or NFC for this vertical
Recommended method: QR + NFC
NFC is recommended for couture and high-value ready-to-wear, providing cryptographic tamper-evidence that a printed QR cannot match; a QR code can complement it for open client access.
Where it goes on the product
A discreet NFC tag is integrated into the inner seam, waistband lining or care-label area, with an optional QR on the swing tag or label.
The Digital Product Passport for this vertical
Textiles are a priority category in the EU ESPR working plan, and a future delegated act is expected to make material composition, origin, durability and care instructions mandatory and machine-readable. SealTrust delivers a structured, machine-readable DPP per garment today, built to map onto that act when it is published.
Understand the Digital Product PassportRegulatory milestones
ESPR delegated act: textiles & apparel
Expected: act not publishedDeadline : Under Article 4(4) of the ESPR, the act applies, as a rule, no earlier than 18 months after it enters into force: DPP obligation around mid-2029 at the earliest.
The expected shape: fibre composition, recycled content share, durability and care information, repairability, substances of concern, recyclability and end-of-life guidance, and traceability of the main production steps. Structuring composition, origin and supplier data per SKU now turns the future deadline into a mapping exercise rather than a rebuild.
Statuses and dates come from our regulation radar: real texts only, flagged as indicative when they are.
See the full regulation radarFrequently asked questions
QR code or NFC for ready-to-wear & couture?
NFC is recommended for couture and high-value ready-to-wear, providing cryptographic tamper-evidence that a printed QR cannot match; a QR code can complement it for open client access. A discreet NFC tag is integrated into the inner seam, waistband lining or care-label area, with an optional QR on the swing tag or label.
Does the Digital Product Passport concern this category?
Textiles are a priority category in the EU ESPR working plan, and a future delegated act is expected to make material composition, origin, durability and care instructions mandatory and machine-readable. SealTrust delivers a structured, machine-readable DPP per garment today, built to map onto that act when it is published.
How does SealTrust prove authenticity in this vertical?
SealTrust assigns each garment a unique cryptographic identity anchored on-chain at the point of manufacture, tied to the maison rather than to a copyable label. A scan confirms authenticity, model, season and ownership history in seconds, while transfers record legitimate resale and expose duplicated identities. Each piece carries a Digital Product Passport covering materials, origin and care across its full lifecycle.
What is the real regulatory deadline?
Not yet published. The Commission plans to adopt the delegated act in the fourth quarter of 2027 and says this timeline may evolve; until it is adopted, there is no binding textile DPP obligation. Under Article 4(4) of the ESPR, the act applies, as a rule, no earlier than 18 months after it enters into force: DPP obligation around mid-2029 at the earliest.
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