Why Yara Shahidi Is The Voice of Her Generation, Lensed By Scott Trindle For Vogue UK October 2018

Why Yara Shahidi Is The Voice of Her Generation, Lensed By Scott Trindle For Vogue UK October 2018

‘Black-ish’ star Yara Shahidi is off to college in ‘Grown-ish’, making it to season 2 as a sophmore in the ‘Black-ish’ spinoff. Praised effusively by both Oprah and Michelle Obama, Shahidi has deferred her real-life freshman year at Harvard, to take her activism to young people, inspiring them to vote in America’s upcoing critical November 6 elections. Check out eighteenx18.

Yara Shahidi is styled by Caroline Newell in ‘Why Yara Shahidi Is The Voice Of Her Generation’, lensed by Scott Trindle for Vogue UK’s October 2018 issue. Olivia Singer breaks bread with Shahidi at Sweet Chick, a low-key fried-chicken restaurant in the city's Fairfax district, owned by her cousin, Nasir Jones.  "We come here a lot," she grins, as her mom and 10-year-old brother join the convo, craving more crayfish hush puppies. "I'm Iranian-American... I really hit the cultural jackpot in terms of food."

The daughter of Hollywood parents, Shahidi’s rise has been noteworthy. The Obama family’s love of ‘Black-ish’ and its confrontation of issues from police brutality and middle-class black guilt is balanced by Trump’s derision of the show. "Can you imagine the furor of a show, 'Whiteish'! Racism at highest level?" he tweeted "Can you imagine the furor of a show, 'Whiteish'! Racism at highest level?" he tweeted

The young and committed Chanel ambassador sees her relationship with the fashion industry as one that gives her a platform where she can discuss issues important to her. Making commercials since age 7, she was required to set up a corporation aged seven: "I called it Dharma Driven," she smiles, "because, even then, I felt like this industry can feel trivial if there's no deeper purpose to it. My dharma, my purpose, is not to live in a self-centred world; to feel like one day I can look back and feel like what I did mattered."