--- title: NYFW 2017: Yeezy Season 5 PHOTOS description: Halima Aden, who competed in Minnesota's Miss USA competition wearing a hijab, made her runway debut at Kanye West's Yeezy Season 5 show. canonical: https://time.com/4671139/halima-aden-hijab-yeezy-show-nyfw/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-15T22:41:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:07.864Z og:title: Hijab-Wearing Model Halima Aden Just Walked Kanye West's Runway og:description: It's the Minnesota teen's NYFW debut og:url: https://time.com/4671139/halima-aden-hijab-yeezy-show-nyfw/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hijab-Wearing Model Halima Aden Just Walked Kanye West's Runway twitter:description: It's the Minnesota teen's NYFW debut twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Halima Aden Just Made Her Runway Debut in a Hijab at Kanye West's Yeezy Fashion Show  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 15, 2017 10:41 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 15, 2017 10:41 PM UTC Nineteen-year-old Halima Aden made headlines last November [when she competed in her Minnesota’s Miss USA competition wearing a hijab and sporting a burkini](http://time.com/4583252/halima-aden-miss-minnesota-usa-hijab-burkini/) for the swimsuit portion. Now, Aden’s taking her talents to another kind of stage — the runway. The Somali-American teenager was just signed to modeling agency IMG and made her fashion week debut at [Kanye West’s surprisingly tame Yeezy Season 5 show](http://time.com/4483104/kanye-west-yeezy-season-4-fashion-show/), where she walked for a front row that included Anna Wintour, Insta-girl Hailey Baldwin, and La La Anthony. West’s show was a relatively low-key affair, following a tumultuous year that included him canceling the remainder of his _Saint Pablo_ tour dates, and being hospitalized for exhaustion after professing [support of President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4578542/kanye-west-cancels-saint-pablo-tour/) during a November concert. West chose not to take a final bow; his wife, Kim Kardashian West signaled the end of the show by standing up at its conclusion. > [](https://twitter.com/VVFriedman/status/831969199492886528) In an interview with the [_Business of Fashion_](https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/imgs-first-hijab-wearing-model-and-jil-sander-returns-to-her-roots), IMG president Ivan Bart said that the agency was impressed with Aden’s commitment to her beliefs, which includes wearing the hijab and dressing modestly. “I found that she was just so brave to stick to what she really believed in and yet go after the American dream of being in a beauty contest,” he said. Aden will also be featured in the next issue of high fashion publication, _CR Fashion Book,_ which is helmed by French style doyenne Carine Roitfeld. “Halima is breaking boundaries of beauty and perception by being herself,” Roitfeld told Business of Fashion. “I find this incredibly inspiring, and I know she will be an icon.” See Aden’s runway debut below. > [](https://twitter.com/Aziza%5FFashion/status/831969242367025156) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4671139/halima-aden-hijab-yeezy-show-nyfw/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4671139/halima-aden-hijab-yeezy-show-nyfw/"},"headline":"Halima Aden Just Made Her Runway Debut in a Hijab at Kanye West's Yeezy Fashion Show","datePublished":"2017-02-15T22:41:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:07.864Z","description":"It's the Minnesota teen's NYFW debut","url":"https://time.com/4671139/halima-aden-hijab-yeezy-show-nyfw/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","fashion","Kanye West","celebrity","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4671139/halima-aden-hijab-yeezy-show-nyfw/","name":"Halima Aden Just Made Her Runway Debut in a Hijab at Kanye West's Yeezy Fashion Show"}}]}] ```