For many years models with hijab have been underrepresented within international fashion World, until 2017 when Model Halima Aden showed up.
Halim Aden, Milan Fashion Week. Photo: Getty Images
In the fashion world, models of other cultures have been highly underrepresented in favor of models who came from Western culture. One to be mentioned, is the group of Muslim models, despite the fact, that there lives approximately 1.9 billion Muslims globally (Muslim Population by Country 2020, u.d.). It was firstly in 2017, that people could experience the first hijab-wearing model on an international runaway for Yeezy. The model was 20 years old Somali-American woman named Halima Aden, who had immigrated to the USA with her family from a refugee camp in northwest of Kenya, where she was born. After her breakthrough, later on, she appeared on the cover of Vogue Arabia magazine and walked for fashion designer Alberta Feretti.
Halima Aden has continued her work as a successful model and showed that Muslim models can also be a part of international fashion runaways and magazines. Other than this, she is trying to change the image about fashion, and want to break the old stereotype of how models should look like and show that fashion is not just for one specific group, but it is for everyone.
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