South Africa’s Thando Hopa is indeed a trailblazer, having become the first woman with albinism to appear on the cover of the iconic Vogue magazine.
The former lawyer turned model features on the cover of this month’s Vogue Portugal titled Africa Motherland. Patricia Domingues, Features Editor at Vogue Portugal, says that the edition is a celebration of the “boundless creative resources of Africans and Afro-descendants through fashion, beauty, art, lifestyle, entertainment and culture."
Hopa says she was shocked when first contacted for the cover saying, “The shock was probably because we’ve never come across a woman with albinism on a Vogue cover. I felt a bit overwhelmed, thinking about the many barriers the very existence of this representation could break”.
Hopa, a dedicated diversity advocate, will be hosting a panel of businesswomen at the Beauty Revolution festival, the first of it's kind to take place n South Africa on the 6th and 7th April at the Johannesburg Convention Centre.
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