
Zara Shahjahan, a renowned designer, recently expressed concern about Pakistanis’ hostility toward brown skin models in skin tone or, in other words, ‘not white.’ What’s interesting is that the women who are criticising these models are themselves of brown descent.
The renowned designer took to Instagram to express her outrage over Pakistani women’s reaction to the launch of her latest campaign, shot in Turkey and featured models with brown skin. Zara wrote about the unjustified hatred and animosity that models face for being brown and not hiding behind layers of whitening creams and foundations.

Zara Shahjahan, a renowned designer, recently expressed concern about Pakistanis’ hostility toward brown skin models in skin tone or, in other words, ‘not white.’ What’s interesting is that the women who are criticising these models are themselves of brown descent.
The renowned designer took to Instagram to express her outrage over Pakistani women’s reaction to the launch of her latest campaign, shot in Turkey and featured models with brown skin. Zara wrote about the unjustified hatred and animosity that models face for being brown and not hiding behind layers of whitening creams and foundations.
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