Fashion design is understood as the act of giving shape to dress, same configuration in many cases is called inspiration for fashion designers, attributing to him a polysemic content makes incomprehensible the role of inspiration in fashion, but even so in constant use; which is done by this research study in search of the meaning of the inspiration for the Colombian fashion designer in the creative process; using a qualitative research approach and the application of hermeneutical method that threw different categories under which inspiration is designed by fashion designers; categories that go beyond being a moment of divine illumination, to the extent that the categories may well relate to the phases thrown the creative process of some authors referred to in this work and the theory of creativity.