An interview with model and content creator Maria Alia Al-Sadek about her fashion origin story and styling her hijab the way she wants to.
When many of us first ventured into the digital playground that was Instagram in 2012, Maria Alia Al-Sadek was ten steps ahead. The “fit pic” was new back then, but Al-Sadek had already. As a Muslim hijabi teenager growing up in Alabama, the model and content creator already felt different. She couldn’t buy into the cookie-cutter,and Hollister aesthetic so many of us were obsessing over back then.
I started wearing a hijab when I was 14, and I lived in Alabama, which is not a stylish place, It wasn’t a cool thing to wear a hijab there — it was very much Hollister and Abercrombie vibes. I was already different in that way. It switched something in my brain to experiment with other stuff because I’m already not going to fit into this aesthetic. It freed my mind in a fashion sense. I already had this “challenge” to make something modest; it made me get crafty.
Where you live plays a big part in how you dress. I lived in Dubai for a year, and that was a transformative time. It was my first time living in a bigger city, a predominantly Muslim place with so many different iterations of modesty there. It gave me a new perspective. You can wear full glam to the mall. I could wear my heels to the mall, and I would never do that in Alabama. When I moved to New York City in 2016, I learned to adapt to the different needs of different places.
I’ve barely shopped this year, but recently I did a little Real Real order. I always have a million favorites, but I’m trying not to buy more things. I got this really cool late-’90s, early-2000s button-down top that goes to my knee that is this interesting plaid pattern and spray-painted. I got a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier white crochet and silk top. It looks like it’s two different pieces. I got these really amazing vintage Bebe heels; they’re pony hair and a cow print.
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