One of the specializations that can be taken at the Faculty of Communication is the International Fashion Communication Program, which this year has the novelty that students, thanks to the optional subjects, can enroll from the first year. In addition, the University promotes activities that complement the training of students in this world, as is the case of the Fashion Drawing Workshop. "It's about learning a new language to express what will later be materialized in fabrics. Drawing has less to do with the hands than with the eyes, that is, with knowing how to look inside yourself," explains Marta Torregrosa, the organizer of the workshop.

The objective of the workshop, which serves as a complement to the IX International Fashion Congress, is to get the student closer to the field of fashion graphic communication. After explaining theoretical concepts on proportion, scale, composition or stylization, in each of the sessions, the acquired knowledge is put into practice. In this way, the student is provided with tools to analyze, represent and interpret the design through the graphic expression of fashion.

This is the first time it has been given at this School, but not at the University of Navarra, since last year a seminar with similar characteristics was also organized at ISEM Fashion Business School. "We had to increase the number of places due to the unexpectedly high demand for the workshop. Initially we had planned a group of 20 students, which has finally increased to almost thirty," says María Villanueva, the teacher who taught this workshop.

One of the participants, Guillem Batchellí Grau, a student in the first year of Advertising and Public Relations, explains that he signed up because he liked to design sketches and thanks to the workshop he saw the opportunity to improve them. He had always thought about becoming a fashion designer and, according to him, it is still an alternative in his future plans. Liliana Neva, a student of Journalism and Hispanic Philology, says that as soon as she picked up the crayon, pencil or charcoal she would completely escape and concentrate on drawing; the hours flew by.

"Thanks to this type of activity, students' training is complemented and their interest is awakened in fields that they may never have considered, and which may even become part of their professional career in the future," says María.