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Grown-ish star, Yara Shahidi is pretty in pink as she talks Hollywood and politics with former Editor of Teen Vogue, Elaine Welteroth for NET-A-PORTER’s digital magazine Porter.
The actress, who is known to slay a red carpet or two, shared her take on the importance of fashion.
“It is so important. It’s why I wear a ton of political T-shirts because I get to wear things that state my political opinions. Fashion is associated with an ideology. You could wear a beret, but when you tilt it to the side, you go from Parisian to Black Panther.”
Yara on Hollywood and politics:
“Well, it’s like what can we do outside of Black-ish that gives meaning toward what we are doing? If we are going to be on this red carpet, what are we going to talk about? We are not going to just ignore the fact that there are riots happening and there is a KKK rally. And so, just being with a team that supports that [is special]. There is so much fear of actors being political, like that’s not our place, even though I feel that media has always been so inherently political. In the photos that you see of Martin Luther King Jr., even at the march on Washington, there’s Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte and James Baldwin, and all of these other creatives. I think media is both progressive and extremely orthodox and conservative at the same time. Things will happen in the movies before they happen in real life. Sidney Poitier winning an Oscar as a black man was just surreal and at the same time it symbolized forward movement in society.”
In the above photos, Yara rocks a pink sweater and pants Kith x Champion, pink jacket and skirt from Off-White; socks Balenciaga; pumps Tom Ford, and pink shorts and jacket from Versace according to the magazine.
Don’t forget to check her new show, Grown-ish on FREEFORM, Wednesday nights at 8/7c
