Karime Salame Sainz is a Mexican textile and fashion designer based in Amsterdam. She studied in Mexico,Spain (Instituto Europeo di Design), Germany (HFK Bremen), and The Netherlands (Sandberg Instituut) where she focused on developing her own designs and reformulating her practice toward a more socially engaged fashion. 

Karime reinterprets the wearing of clothes, resulting in new visions that show unexpected translations of what fashion could be. She works as a concept designer for different brands like Daily Paper and has been teaching at AMFI – since 2019 and since recently coordinating the diversity department within the institution researching the problems embedded in colonial and cultural studies resulting in insights that open a dialogue about fashion and its practicetextile and fashion designer