Course General Description

The academic program of Art, Fashion and Textile design develops a holistic vision about the creation, dissemination and management of design and fashion, exploring its cultural, strategic, creative and communicative components based on a significant proposal to appreciate the Peruvian Heritage of textiles, clothing and accessories. Research, design and art are involved with creative experiments as well as with fashion industry technologies and techniques through theoretical applied lessons, workshops and laboratories. The academic training has an artistic foundation, essential for the creative development which is developed during the first two years. The following three years are aimed at the specialization of the textile design, clothing design, fashion collection design, communication and management.

School General Description

Founded in 1917 by Catholic priest Father Jorge Dintilhac SS.CC as Peru's first non-profit private institution of higher learning, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú or PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. Students can study courses in architecture and urbanism, arts, performing arts, science, engineering, communications, accounting, social sciences and management. It is home to 19,000 full-time undergraduate students, 5,600 graduate students and over 500 international students. The main campus is located in the Lima district of San Miguel, with the newly built Mac Gregor complex. PUCP is dedicated to promoting and developing new research - it has 17 institutes and research centres, with notable mention for the Structures Laboratory and the Centre of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (CETAM).