--- title: NY Fashion Week: Acid-Attack Survivor Hits Catwalk description: Reshma Qureshi, who made her runway debut on Thursday, survived an acid attack that blinded an eye and disfigured her face two years ago canonical: https://time.com/4485099/reshma-qureshi-new-york-fashion-week-acid-attack/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-09T09:41:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:29:33.518Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Acid-Attack Survivor Reshma Qureshi Hits the Catwalk og:description: She made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week og:url: https://time.com/4485099/reshma-qureshi-new-york-fashion-week-acid-attack/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a8926f0f3a4425a/6988a554524fc0b9a2df96d0/gettyimages-600633624.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: FASHION-US-ACID-SURVIVOR og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Acid-Attack Survivor Reshma Qureshi Hits the Catwalk twitter:description: She made her runway debut at New York Fashion Week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a8926f0f3a4425a/6988a554524fc0b9a2df96d0/gettyimages-600633624.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Acid-Attack Survivor Reshma Qureshi Hits the Catwalk at New York Fashion Week > Sponsored content. 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Reshma Qureshi, who made her runway debut on Thursday, survived an acid attack in India that blinded one of her eyes and disfigured her face two years ago, [reports Agence France-Presse (AFP)](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/i-feel-brave-indian-acid-attack-survivor-wows-new-york-with-catwalk-debut). “I feel really good and the experience was great,” the 19-year-old from Mumbai said through an interpreter to AFP reporters. For her first stint on the catwalk, she was in a “stunning cream and floral floor-length gown” designed by Archana Kochhar, an Indian designer. “I want to tell the world — do not see us in a weak light and see that even we can go out and do things,” she told AFP. This was not Qureshi’s first time standing up as a survivor of acid attacks. She has been making beauty-advice videos on YouTube, which last year [doubled as a public-service announcement](http://time.com/4023698/beauty-tutorial-make-love-not-scars/) for an effort in India to stop acid from being available for sale in the open market. Acid attacks, targeting women and children in particular, are still rampant in [some parts](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1971124,00.html) [of the](http://time.com/3796167/the-agony-of-injustice-in-iran/) [world](http://time.com/3796167/the-agony-of-injustice-in-iran/). Qureshi was invited to take part in the fashion week by FTL Moda, described by AFP as “a fashion-production company committed to challenging industry stereotypes of beauty.” FTL Moda also invited a model with Down syndrome to the New York Fashion Week last year. “People have a tendency to look at acid attack survivors from one perspective,” she said to AFP reporters. “I don’t want them to look at them like that anymore.” \[[_AFP_](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/i-feel-brave-indian-acid-attack-survivor-wows-new-york-with-catwalk-debut)\] NY Fashion Week: Acid-Attack Survivor Hits Catwalk ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4485099/reshma-qureshi-new-york-fashion-week-acid-attack/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4485099/reshma-qureshi-new-york-fashion-week-acid-attack/"},"headline":"Acid-Attack Survivor Reshma Qureshi Hits the Catwalk at New York Fashion Week","datePublished":"2016-09-09T09:41:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:29:33.518Z","description":"“Do not see us in a weak light,” she says","url":"https://time.com/4485099/reshma-qureshi-new-york-fashion-week-acid-attack/","keywords":["fashion","India","new york fashion week"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a8926f0f3a4425a/6988a554524fc0b9a2df96d0/gettyimages-600633624.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a8926f0f3a4425a/6988a554524fc0b9a2df96d0/gettyimages-600633624.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FASHION-US-ACID-SURVIVOR","caption":"FASHION-US-ACID-SURVIVOR","creditText":"Trevor Collens–AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/fashion/","name":"fashion"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4485099/reshma-qureshi-new-york-fashion-week-acid-attack/","name":"Acid-Attack Survivor Reshma Qureshi Hits the Catwalk at New York Fashion Week"}}]}] ```