The following article reports on the experience of a group of fashion design students from Lusófona University during a 10-day Combined Intensive Programme (BIP) in Seville at Escuela Sevilla de Moda (ESSDM). Communication constructs everyone's reality, since its aim is the common sharing of certain data. Cultural conceptions and beliefs therefore construct the reality of those who share them. In specific academic training in fashion design, communication is the starting point. Sharing theoretical and practical knowledge, understanding design as a form of expression and, therefore, as a form of communication, are the fundamental principles. The Portuguese students had direct contact with teachers from the organizing institution and with fashion designers based in Seville, enabling them to obtain the necessary tools to construct a garment that respected the techniques, modeling and manufacture of this traditional costume. The focus of the course was on practicing teaching methodologies based on learning by doing. The result was successful, the primary objective of the programme in question. The students obtained theoretical and practical knowledge on the spot, immersed in a specific culture, sharing a new way of communicating and seeing the world.