Entry requirements

The professional degree is for students from initial second-year undergraduate diploma programmes: BTS (Higher Technician Certificate) in Fashion or second- and third-year undergraduate diplomas in Applied Arts. It is not open to students from BTS (Higher Technician Certificate) or degrees in Fashion Management.

Benefits of the program

Partnership with ESAA Duperré, France's most prestigious applied arts for fashion school. Access to ESAA's facilities and dual student card. Course teaching focuses on three areas: artistic culture, professional techniques, 12- to 24-week in-company placement, all of these converging through the development of a tutored project which will be assessed by professionals then presented during the School's exhibition vernissage.

Acquired skills

Technical and professional skills: Knowledge about fabrics, textiles, techniques, creation and confection processes, computer tools.

Cultural skills: knowledge about the history of art, aesthetics and techniques for spatial exhibition set-up. Good command of English.

Marketing, entrepreneurship environment and ethical and sustainable production skills: knowledge of the way various fashion businesses operate (luxury and mass production) as well as of principles and techniques used in ethical and sustainable production.

Registration details

Course venue

Schedule of studies

Placement period: between January and June.

Your future career

At the end of this Professional Degree, graduates may move into the following professions:

Fashion designer (clothing, accessories, surface, fashion communication), in a studio, as a freelancer or in-house.

Study objectives

The key purpose of this course is to ensure students put the knowledge they acquired during the BTS (Advanced Technician's Certificate) into practice in the creative activity of professional designer. Students must have learned to work with others, to manage their projects taking external technical contribution into account, to present it and to "sell" it as well as to reflect on its design, its intention, its public and the conditions for exploiting it economically.

In-depth knowledge of fabrics, textiles and techniques will enable students to develop the skills required for designing and confectioning collections, and/or communicating on these collections.

Learning how to coordinate and work together in a project will directly pave the way for entering professional life.

Major thematics of study

Aesthetic culture: History of art, aesthetics and visual culture

English

Corporate culture and sustainable development

Fashion marketing (luxury and mass retail)

Computer graphics, photography and digital techniques

Creative laboratory

Collection design and confection studio

Study organization

Modalité d'admission en Alternance :

Apprentissage

International

A great choice of placements exist abroad, in particular in the UK, USA and Italy (clothing), in India (embroidery), in Germany (mesh), etc. Each year hosts at least one or two foreign students (out of 26). Partnerships with Japan are currently being explored.

Partenariats :

La licence professionnelle met en partenariat plusieurs entités : L'Université de Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), qui assure la coordination administrative de la licence et l’organisation des jurys ; l'Ecole Duperré qui assure les enseignements. L’école encadre les projets tuteurés, participe aux jurys et au choix des professionnels du jury de projets et assure la coordination de l’ensemble de la formation pour la partie technique notamment ; le CFA, qui assure le suivi des apprentis s'il y en a, du livret de l’apprentissage, des formalités administratives de l’apprentissage en relation avec les entreprises d’accueil des apprentis.