Undergraduate in Design
Fashion Design
In a compromise between thinking and doing, students explore their creativity and leadership, developing critical skills, manual techniques and digital processes. We challenge the new generation to discover their creative identity, embracing the issues of sustainability and circularity, with a sense of social, economic and environmental responsibility.
Profile
Critical, practice-based and contextual learning
Objectives
- Create dynamic learning environments, enhancing different expressions of identity and modes of action and stimulating critical thinking and autonomy.
- Develop different methodological, reflective and contextual approaches, introducing the debate on different scenarios and actors in the Fashion system.
- Provide laboratory project practice based on drawing and materialization in the studio.
- Cultivate an ethical and critical approach, valuing knowledge of history and heritage and awareness of the challenges for the future.
- Promote civic and design participation attentive to sustainability and local and global dynamics.
Structure, content and learning progression
Curriculum
Professional Future
- Fashion designer for collection development and graphics
- Product and textile collection designer
- Fashion producer and stylist
- Product manager
- Design researcher
Teaching, practice and research
Faculty
Dialogue between design, industry and culture
Ecosystem
A collaborative approach and a network of dynamic partners ensure the promotion of critical and technological thinking, challenging the limits of conventional thinking. ESAD Fashion Design has established itself as a platform for dialogue between the creative design process, industry, culture and society. Partnerships extend our mission, exploring close relationships with local and national organisations. We intend to continue identifying new initiatives to connect the academic community to new opportunities in the industry.
- Troficolor • Novoli
- Valérius Têxteis
- Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos
- Incubadora da Fábrica de Santo Thyrso
- Museu do Design
- Portugal Fashion
- Citeve
- Lemar
- Tintex
Enriching lives, opening minds
Erasmus+
Undergraduate 2025–2026
Calendar
Atividades letivas
● 2.º semestre · 09.02 — 23.06.2026
School closures
● Sr. Matosinhos · 25 — 26.05.2026
Assessments
Publication
● 2.º semestre · 25.06 — 02.07.2026
Exams
● Época de recurso — 2.º semestre — Inscrição · 03 — 06.07.2026
● Época de recurso — 2.º semestre · 06 — 18.07.2026
● Época especial — Inscrição · 03 — 04.09.2026
● Época especial · 08 — 18.09.2026
Year 2026–2027
Tuition Fee
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Applications and Admissions
Administrative Services
Contacts
For information on applications, admission or scholarships at ESAD, the Administrative Services team is available to assist by email or telephone, Monday to Friday, from 8:30 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00 (in August, morning opening is at 9:00).
Undergraduate