Palestinian American supermodel Gigi Hadid celebrates the second anniversary of Vogue Arabia in her first image collaboration with esteemed photographer Peter Lindbergh. Wearing Giambattista Valli Couture and Givenchy Couture, the editorial was photographed in Paris during Fashion Week.

The March 2019 cover is Hadid’s 37th to date, and her second for Vogue Arabia after launching the magazine’s debut in 2017, shot by Inez & Vinoodh. It’s refreshing to see that the Twitter pc police didn’t run Hadid off this anniversary cover after her debut appearance.

“Being Arab has influenced me to be open and loving of all backgrounds, realizing that being more of one thing doesn’t make you less of something else,” she muses proudly, reflecting on the impact her Palestinian heritage has had on her life. Last year, Hadid was photographed celebrating Eid with pop star Zayn Malik, and also marched the streets of New York protesting against US President Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban in 2017.

Not mentioned in Vogue Arabia, we note that Gigi Hadid is also a UN ambassador in refugee camps in the Muslim world.

Gigi Hadid On Vogue Hong Kong Debut Cover

Gigi Hadid created a new Twitter furor over the weekend, having the audacity to accept a request that she co-launch with Fei Fei Sun the new Hong Kong Vogue. If you recall, Gigi made that not slick — condemned as racist by the Twitter police— eye move at the dinner table, when a Buddha cookie was served for dessert.

I will never understand why nobody jumped on the restaurant for serving Buddha cookies in the first place. Now THAT is disrespectful imo. But hey, I guess they are only stalking big game models. At any rate, the ‘racist’ Buddha cookie incident created such a major Instagram backlash around the Vogue Hong Kong launch that Gigi’s solo cover was taken down from Instagram.

We share an editorial preview and second cover of Gigi’s Vogue Arabia March 2019, Peter Lindbergh shoot.