Zohre Esmaeli is a model from Afghanistan who is based in Germany. Her story is so awesome and inspiring that I can't do it justice by merely going over the highlights here.
Her family fled Afghanistan during the Taliban regime in the late nineties by crossing the border and traveling overland over 6,200 miles to Germany. Ms. Esmaeli was barely a teenager then, and she almost didn't survive the trip.
Once settled in Germany, she resumed her school studies, but she began modeling at sixteen years of age when she was discovered in Frankfurt. Her career took off after she moved to Stuttgart. She has appreaed in numerous fashion magazine, sich as Elle, Cosmopolitan, Madame, and Marie Claire.
Zohre Esmaeli also designs clothes, under the brand name "Zoraya." She debuted her first line in November 2015 for a charity fashion show in Berlin.
It's quite obvious that, despite her Afghan background, the German fashion world has accepted her as its own. :-)
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