"Never change yourself, change the game."
After revolutionizing the world of fashion, she's taking a break from it.
This is the story of Halima Aden, the first hijab-wearing supermodel.
After revolutionizing the world of fashion, she's taking a break from it.
This is the story of Halima Aden, the first hijab-wearing supermodel.
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00:00I might have been the first, but that means nothing if there's not a second, a third, a fourth.
00:18When we step out of our comfort zone and we do something for the first time, big or small,
00:23you never know what that initial first is going to lead you to and what doors could open from that.
00:30I was born and raised in Kakuma in a UNICEF camp, so for me it really does hit close to
00:45home and the fact that I'm able to be here today, it really does speak so much to the
00:50work that they're doing.
00:52My advice for young women is to never change yourself,
01:21change the game, you don't have to conform, the industry, it's just the perfect time to be
01:26yourself and we are celebrating everything that it means to be you and like the individual and
01:32for me like it's amazing because for the first time Muslim women are being represented and celebrated.
01:51Hopefully modest fashion will one day become part of mainstream fashion because modesty is
02:15really something that's open for interpretation and it is a global way of life and there's so
02:20many women besides Muslim women who want to dress modest.
02:42Well a year and a half ago I could never pick up a magazine and flip through the pages and
02:46see somebody wear a hijab or somebody that looks like me and you know today I'm really happy to say
02:51I've covered nine different magazines from Vogue to Allure to Glamour so it's nice because little
02:58girls are picking that up, they're seeing somebody who looks like them.
03:16I'm a UNICEF ambassador and you know UNICEF is so personal to me, I was born and raised in a UNHCR
03:29camp in Kakuma so to be here it just means the world to me and I believe in the work that they're
03:34doing on the ground. You know my life is a testament to the work that they're doing.
04:05I might have been the first in high fashion but I'm definitely not going to be the last
04:11and that's something I'm very proud of because already I see so many girls getting signed,
04:15so many girls like entering fashion and they're not afraid to wear their hijabs,
04:19they're not afraid to ask for privacy, they're not afraid to you know be different you know and
04:23stand out a little bit.