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Fessahaye, now 35, was born and raised in Uppsala by parents who preserved their Eritrean culture. “My name means peace,” says the designer. “It was given to me after 20-plus years of war—where women have fought side by side with the men for the freedom of the people—in the hope of seeing an end to it, and that’s only the beginning of the impact of my heritage.” Fessahaye can be counted among the “third culture kids” (children raised in a culture different than that of both of their parents), who are contributing so much to Sweden’s cultural scene.

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“I think we are a generation of being in between,” she says. “We’re not our parents, who came from war or have seen something else, but we’re not Swedish—nobody will see us and just think, Okay, this is a regular Swede, so we’re just trying to find our own middle way where we can exist.

That’s a big part of everything I do.”

Fashion has been a big part of Fessahaye’s life, too. At 7, she started sneaking into her mother’s closet to find pieces that might not be missed, and she reworked them.

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