Tess van Zalinge studied Fashion and Design at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She graduated cum laude in 2012 with her collection “The same old lines”. This collection is about the ability to create your own identity. The concept is based on the urge she had to make careless decisions. She was looking for guidance, which she found in the faithful, chaste and Dutch folklore, in combination with the colorful, free and uninhibited African culture. An identity that should provide limited opportunities and will bring peace in a time of unlimited possibilities. ‘Who am I’ is not the question she asked herself, but ‘who would I like to be’.