Meet Halima Aden - The first Hijab-wearing Model

19-year-old Halima Aden has become the first ever hijab-wearing model to grace the cover of American women’s beauty magazine, Allure.

No stranger to the limelight, Aden first achieved ‘groundbreaking’ status back in November 2016 when she became the first Miss Minnesota to compete in a hijab and burkini.

Since then, she’s gone on to walk in the Yeezy season five show at New York Fashion Week and made history as the first hijab-wearing woman on the cover of Vogue.

Sporting Nike’s new performance hijab on the cover of Allure’s July issue, Aden’s image is accompanied by the words, “This is American Beauty” - a defiant slogan that champions the young model’s desire to defy beauty boundaries in fashion once and for all.

Born in a refugee camp in Kenya, Aden moved to the U.S. with her mum at age seven and told Allure that she’s been wearing the hijab ever since.

source:independent

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