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The October issue of Playboy magazine features a woman wearing a hijab for the first time.
Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri, who’s already renowned for creating a conversation in her role as a journalist, is challenging society’s perception of young people and type-casting of Muslim women with a Playboy shoot that’s making history.
Noor has been named as one of Playboy magazine’s ‘Renegades of 2016’, and is featured in the new issue wearing her hijab, a leather jacket, black pants and a t-shirt.
‘As a badass activist with a passion for demanding change and asking the right questions, accompanied by beauty-ad-campaign looks, Tagouri forces us to ask ourselves why we have such a hard time wrapping our minds around a young woman who consciously covers her head and won’t take no for an answer’, Playboy wrote in the feature.
Tagouri says the hijab has helped her create trust with her interview subjects as a reporter, saying she “knows what it’s like to be misinterpreted in the media” as a Muslim woman. She aspires to become the first anchor wearing a hijab on a commercial TV station in the US, and it seems likely that this game-changing shoot could help to get her there.
Opinions about the magazine feature have been mixed, with the Independent publishing an article titled: ‘I fail to see why I should celebrate a hijab-wearing Muslim woman appearing in Playboy for the first time’. Social media users have also been voicing their opinion on the shoot:
But despite dividing opinion, there’s no doubt that this recent shoot has opened up a new conversation for the magazine brand. Until a year ago, Playboy still favoured nude models and their famous centrefolds, but the brand introduced a strict no-nudity policy in October 2015.
