Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi

Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.

Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi

I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.

Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi

There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I've realized, 'Okay, I'm ten years old, and I've spent the past six hours outside in the rain.' It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do and what kind of work I wanted to do.

Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi

I remember my first actual intense breakout was when I was 13, and I no clue what to do because I hadn't dealt with anything in that large of a scale ever before.

Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.