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Fashion Design
Studying Fashion Design at CESINE means learning the whole craft: from the first sketch to the final runway show. Pattern cutting, garment construction, fashion illustration, trends, creative direction and sustainability. Four years working on real collections with a faculty of practising designers. Official degree validated by SIUCAN, with the option to continue with a Top-Up at LMU.
Studying Fashion Design at CESINE: from sketch to runway
The Degree in Fashion Design at CESINE isn’t learnt just by drawing: you learn by cutting, sewing, prototyping and defending each collection in front of a panel of professionals. From first year you’re in the workshop, working with patterns and fabric and understanding the industry from the inside. We study fashion as what it is today: a creative discipline with cultural, economic and environmental responsibility. And we train designers who know how to sign a collection, defend it and deliver it.
A Fashion Design school focused on craft and sustainability
At CESINE we see Fashion Design as a craft you learn by doing. You have access to our own workshop, industrial machines, a pattern-cutting room and professional software (CLO 3D, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign). And we treat sustainability as a cross-cutting theme: materials, processes, life cycle and new circular economies applied to fashion.
This qualification is officially equivalent to a University Degree
Awarded by the Government of Cantabria’s Regional Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Tourism and validated by SIUCAN, this qualification gives you access to job openings at public institutions and private companies, as well as to official master’s and doctoral programmes. It carries 240 ECTS credits recognised in the European Higher Education Area, making academic and professional mobility across Europe easier.
Who is this degree for?
The Degree in Fashion Design at CESINE is designed for very specific profiles. If you recognise yourself in any of them, let’s talk.
- Students who have completed Bachillerato (or equivalent) or a related Higher Vocational Training qualification (FP de Grado Superior)
- People with a real interest in fashion as a creative discipline, not as a trend
- Profiles who enjoy the sketch as much as the workshop, the garment as much as the runway
- Anyone looking for an official degree with the option of continuing internationally
Career opportunities in Fashion Design
A fashion designer today doesn’t just sign collections. The industry spans own-label design, creative direction, fashion marketing, fashion communication, sustainability, art direction and production. These are some of the roles our graduates go on to:
- Designer for your own label
- Brand creative direction
- Pattern cutting and product development
- Technical and textile design
- Editorial and commercial styling
- Fashion art direction
- Fashion communication and PR
- Runway show and event production
- Buying and merchandising
- Textile sustainability consulting
- Visual merchandising
- Research and teaching
Fashion: international mobility
This international programme lets you take CESINE’s Degree in Fashion Design with a unique global experience. Through academic stays in four cities around the world, you can build a creative, technical and cosmopolitan profile aligned with the demands of the global fashion industry.
Degree in Fashion Design curriculum
- Design in contemporary culture and society I
- Creativity
- Methodology and ideation
- Spatial conception
- Communication in English I
- Artistic drawing
- Computer tools for design
- Colour workshop
- History of creators
- Pattern cutting and garment construction workshop I
- Science and eco-design
- Photography I
- Communication skills
- Photography II
- History of fashion and dress I
- Design in contemporary culture and society II
- Textile materials, structures and processes I
- Communication in English II
- Fashion drawing and illustration
- Interdisciplinary projects
- Fashion projects I
- Pattern cutting and garment construction workshop II
- Project presentation and communication workshop
- Communication in English III
- History of fashion and dress II
- Fashion projects II
- Pattern cutting and garment construction workshop III
- Textile materials, structures and processes II
- Fashion styling
- Design business management
- Stage costume design
- Portfolio
- Fashion projects III
- Haute couture workshop
- Today’s fashion landscape
- Fashion business management
- Final project
- Work placement
- Art direction (elective)
- Event management (elective)
- Textile architecture (elective)
- Window display design (elective)
- Audiovisual portfolio (elective)
- Furniture design (elective)
How you learn at CESINE
Programmes built on practical cases
Led by practising designers who bring their collections, clients and real production processes into the classroom.
Professional placements
Immerse yourself in a fashion house, a design studio, a fashion communication agency or a brand’s creative department. In Spain or abroad.
A strong network
Connect to the CESINE universe: students, alumni, faculty and the brands we’ve been working with for years.
A close, personal approach
Small cohorts. We know you by your name, not by your transcript.
Student collections and projects
We don’t show you what you’ll learn: we show you what gets delivered. A selection of real collections by current students and alumni of the degree: prêt-à-porter, haute couture, sustainability, creative direction, fashion film.
Step out of your comfort zone, find your way in new environments, speak multiple languages and immerse yourself in different cultures. Within the programme set up through the EDH group network and our long-standing partners, you’ll enjoy classes with the same level of excellence and focus at no additional cost.
The Degree in Fashion Design at CESINE opens doors abroad. Through mobility programmes and the EDH network, you can complete part of your studies at international partner universities with a recognised reputation in fashion.
- Rosenheim (DE) TH Rosenheim
- Reutlingen (DE) Reutlingen University
- Vienna (AT) FH Wien
- St. Pölten (AT) New Design University
- Antwerp (BE) Thomas More
- Copenhagen (DK) KEA Copenhagen
- Caen, Lyon, Nantes, Tours (FR) Brassart (EDH)
- Lyon (FR) CREAD (EDH)
- Milan & Rome (IT) NABA
- Brescia (IT) Accademia SantaGiulia
- Naples & Milan (IT) Accademia della Moda (IUAD)
- Rome (IT) Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
- Rome (IT) Quasar Institute
- Borre, Horten (NO) Univ. of South-Eastern Norway
- Bucharest (RO) UNArte
- London, Ontario (CA) Fanshawe College
- Vancouver (CA) Emily Carr University
- Santiago (CL) Universidad del Desarrollo
- Zhuhai (CN) UIC (BNU-HKBU)
- Seoul (KR) Sejong University
- Buenos Aires (AR) Universidad Nacional de las Artes
- Mendoza (AR) Universidad de Mendoza
- Jerusalem (IL) Bezalel Academy
- Cardiff (UK) Cardiff Metropolitan
- Clarksville, Arkansas (US) University of the Ozarks
- San Pedro (CR) Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
- Mérida (MX) Universidad Marista de Mérida
Work placements at fashion houses, ateliers and agencies
Curricular and extracurricular. Every placement comes with individual tutoring. Some of our partners for Fashion Design profiles:
At CESINE we understand that studying for a degree is an investment. That’s why we support you with that part too: motivation scholarships, financing through partner institutions and tailored payment plans. The admissions team reviews your case individually.
No. What we ask for is genuine interest and a project-driven attitude. Fashion drawing, pattern cutting and garment construction are taught progressively from first year. Admissions reviews each profile individually.
CLO 3D (digital pattern cutting and prototyping), Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (fashion illustration and communication), InDesign (lookbooks and portfolios) and collection presentation tools. We work with the same versions and processes used by fashion houses.
Yes, as a cross-cutting theme. It isn’t a stand-alone subject: sustainability runs through material selection, production processes, garment life cycle and new circular economies applied to fashion. It’s part of the craft today, not an option.
Yes. The final collection in fourth year is the professional project you defend and deliver. But the portfolio is built from year one: every brief, every project, every garment. When you finish the degree, you have real work to present to fashion houses and studios.
Yes, for specific reasons. Small cohorts, individual access to the workshop, a faculty of practising designers, connections with the national and international industry and a reasonable cost of living that lets you focus on learning. And, if you wish, the option of a British Top-Up when you finish.
Yes. After completing the degree you can take an additional Top-Up year with London Metropolitan University (Fashion Marketing is the closest option to Fashion Design) and earn a British Bachelor’s Degree recognised across Europe.
