Supermodel Gigi Hadid will be featured on the first ever cover of Vogue’s brand new Middle East edition later this month, it has been revealed.

The 21 year old star poses wearing a scarf over her head in two different black-and-white images that will grace the front cover of Vogue Arabia, the first ever print edition of which will hit shelves on March 5th and is titled ‘Reorienting Perceptions’.

Hadid, who in recent years has become one of the most successful models worldwide, is half-Palestinian by birth, and says that the chance to be the front cover of the Middle East’s newest fashion bible “means the world” to her.

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“I think the beautiful thing about there being international Vogues is that, as a fashion community, we are able to celebrate, and share with the world, different cultures,” she wrote on Instagram on Wednesday (March 1st), sharing the images.

She added: “I hope that this magazine will show another layer of the fashion industry’s desire to continue to accept, celebrate, and incorporate all people and customs and make everyone feel like they have fashion images and moments they can relate to… & learn and grow in doing so.”

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Conde Nast International, the new magazine’s publisher, appointed the Saudi princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz as the editor-in-chief for Vogue Arabia. It is to be distributed in a small handful of Middle Eastern states to begin with, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

“In one poised photograph, she communicates a thousand words to a region that's been waiting far too long for its Vogue voice to speak,” Abdulaziz commented on Hadid’s cover.

“The collage of countries across the Arab world are long-deserving of a place in fashion history and there's no better first ‘face’ to lead the charge for Vogue Arabia than Gigi, a model who defines tomorrow's entrepreneurial and dynamic generation.”

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