Pakistani fashion designer, Zara Shahjahan, called out social media users over demeaning comments related to beauty standards.
The designer explained how she and her team were left with no choice but to hire models from Turkey. “Let’s talk about these pictures. So I had a shoot in Turkey. My team left a day earlier and the day me and the model had to leave, Turkey announced 15 days of quarantine. We were left with no choice but to hire models from there,” she wrote in a social media post.
Sharing a picture of a model from her recent campaign, she wrote, “I tried to find girls who look South Asian and finally found these two very stunning Mexican models who flew from LA for the campaign. We were very happy, the campaign look really beautiful and we launched, but what happened after is quite disturbing.”
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“These pictures started getting a lot of hate. ‘They look like maids’ is one comment which disturbed me the most,” the designer added.
“Are we these people? Why do we want the models to be white and sultry?” Zara questioned.
She concluded her post by thanking God for her loyal customers, “Thankgod for my loyal customers who know my brand and the collection was sold out but I don’t seem to get the irritation of a lot of women to these two pictures.”
