Halima Aden helps West unveil Yeezy Season 5 collection

NEW YORK – Do you retrieve Halima Aden, the Somali-American pistillate who competed past twelvemonth successful the Miss Minnesota USA pageant successful her hijab?

Aden, who is Muslim, was the archetypal to vie successful the authorities pageant afloat dressed. The 19-year-old made the semifinals portion wearing a hijab, and besides donned a full-body outfit called a burkini for the swimsuit competition, contempt astir of the different 44 contestants wearing bikinis.

She didn’t triumph the pageant -- but she’s back.

Aden walked Wednesday successful Kanye West’s amusement astatine New York Fashion Week, arsenic the rapper-turned-fashion decorator unveiled his Yeezy Season 5 collection.

Aden wore a floor-length fur overgarment and a hijab. The teen, who was calved successful a Kenyan exile camp, besides precocious signed with modeling bureau IMG.

“I signed with the apical modeling bureau successful the WORLD and inactive wore my hijab arsenic my crown,” Aden posted connected her Instagram page. “Don't ever alteration yourself. Change the game. … I americium truthful excited to articulation the @imgmodels household and dispersed the connection that diverseness IS beauty.”

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IMG doesn’t person immoderate different models who deterioration hijabs.

This week’s lawsuit marked Aden’s archetypal clip walking successful a amusement aft she surfaced arsenic a look to ticker successful the pageant past November.

Before the pageant, Aden said the contention was "a large level to amusement the satellite who I am," the Associated Press reported. At the time, Aden was a assemblage pupil surviving successful St. Cloud, Minnesota. She wore the accepted Muslim headpiece passim the full competition. Her evening formal was humble and covered up arsenic well.

Aden had ne'er earlier competed successful a pageant.

Buzzfeed News reported successful November that Aden decided to articulation the contention to interruption antagonistic stereotypes of Muslim-Americans, particularly Somali-Americans and Muslim women. Aden emigrated with her parents arsenic a kid to Minnesota.

West’s amusement lasted astir 13 minutes. Many of his models sported '90s-style looks that included denim jackets, on with plain pants and boots. The Wednesday lawsuit was antithetic for its immense screens, but the apparel seemed uncharacteristically mean and comfy looking, for West, anyway, according to the AP.

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The personage impermanent database included ASAP Ferg and La La Anthony, Pusha T, Kylie Jenner, Tyga and Hailey Baldwin. West has been staying mostly disconnected the radar since his hospitalization for exhaustion and the abrupt extremity to his "Life of Pablo" tour.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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