Somali-American Muslim model Halima Aden is taking a step back from the fashion industry, after years of wearing various non-hijab head coverings in photoshoots.
Key points:
- Halima Aden was the first hijab-wearing model on the runways of Milan and New York
- On Instagram, she said she allowed herself to get persuaded into wearing head coverings in photoshoots that were not hijabs
- She said a COVID-enforced break allowed her to reconnect with her mum, who gave her perspective
In a detailed Instagram story, Aden wrote this week that she was "not rushing back to the fashion industry" thanks in part to her mother's pleas "to open [her] eyes".
"My mom asked me to quit modelling a LONG time ago. I wish I wasn't so defensive," the 23-year-old wrote.
"Thanks to COVID and the breakaway from the industry I have finally realized where I went wrong on my hijab journey."
Aden became the first hijab-wearing model on the runways of Milan and New York, and has appeared on numerous magazine covers and in print campaigns.
She was also the first model to wear a hijab and burkini in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
Born in a refugee camp in Kenya, she moved to the United States with her family when she was seven years old and was the first Muslim homecoming queen at her high school in Minnesota, the first Somali student senator at her college and the first hijab-wearing woman in the Miss USA Minnesota pageant.
In her Instagram posts, Aden detailed where she felt the religious covering, the hijab, had been respected — for example in a campaign for Rihanna's Fenty beauty line — and where it had gone astray.
"I was just so desperate back then for any 'representation', that I lost touch with who I was," she wrote on one post. On another, wearing a crystal-encrusted headscarf, she said: "I should have walked off the set because clearly the stylist didn't have a hijab-wearing woman in mind."
She showed an instance when her head had been wrapped in jeans in a campaign for denim brand American Eagle and another where she was portrayed as the subject of the famous Vermeer painting, Girl With A Pearl Earring, where she was wearing a head covering but not a hijab.
"I should have just politely declined this because where is the HIJAB?" she wrote.
Another story had her adjusting the shape of her hijab, which usually covers her chest, so a necklace she was wearing could be seen.
"I'm a HIJAB-wearing woman!" she said.
"I can wear rings and bracelets but what do I need a necklace for?"
She said her acceptance of situations that showed a lack of respect for her beliefs was due to a mixture of rebellion and naivete.
"What I blame the industry for is the lack of MUSLIM stylists," she wrote.
She also said she felt pressure from other Muslim women to "be more daring" and tried "to be the 'hot hijabi' as if that didn't just defeat the whole purpose".
AP/ABC
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2020-11-27 02:09:00Z
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