Last month, supermodel Halima Aden announced her return to fashion after a three-year break. Aden, the first woman to wear a hijab on the cover of Vogue, quit the industry citing difficulties reconciling her faith and her career. A devout Muslim and proud hijabi, Aden previously shared her frustration with fashion’s attitude to modest dressing. Annnouncing her departure from the catwalk, she said: “Looking back now I did what I said I would never do, which is compromise who I am in order to fit in.”
Now, Aden recognises that changes have been made since she left – and told Grazia she is excited to see what more the industry might do to finally bring modest dressing in the mainstream. “If we continue down this trajectory, we will see lasting change,” she says in her cover interview. “I was blessed enough to have been the first. But I’m not the last.”
