Elegant Malala Yousafzai dons £2,780 Bottega Veneta clutch bag as she joins her handsome husband, Kim Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey at Caring for Women gala in New York

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Malala Yousafzai looked elegant in an all black ensemble and glamorous make-up look as she attended the Caring for Women gala in New York with her handsome husband Asser Malik.

The Nobel prize winner,  26, who was born in Pakistan and now lives in Birmingham, opted for a sleek black dress with golden buttons for the occasion. 

Adding a touch of glam to the look she also sported pencilled in eyebrows, mauve lipstick and black mascara.

Fittingly, the Oxford graduate picked a £2,780 Bottega Veneta clutch bag – whose parent company Kering were throwing the A-list gala.

 The second annual Caring For Women dinner was presented by the Kering Foundation — the leading foundation combating the epidemic that is violence against women and girls.

Malala Yousafzai looked elegant in an all black ensemble and glamorous make-up look as she attended the Caring for Women gala in New York with her handsome husband Asser Malik

The Nobel prize winner, 26, who was born in Pakistan and now lives in Birmingham , opted for a sleek black dress with golden buttons for the occasion

Fittingly, the Oxford graduate picked a £2,780 Bottega Veneta clutch bag – whose parent company Kering were throwing the A-list gala. Pictured with Oprah Winfrey and Francois-Henri Pinault

It is a celebration of the charitable organisation’s 15th anniversary and the theme of the evening was ‘strength in numbers’.

Malala famously fights for the education of girls. 

She was just 14 years old when she was shot in Pakistan by Taliban gunmen after speaking out about girls’ right to education – a cause she first championed when she was just 11.

The Taliban had overrun her home town of Mingora, terrorising residents, threatening to blow up girls’ schools and ordering teachers and students to wear burqas.

With her father Ziauddin’s backing, Malala kept an online diary and did interviews with journalists to encourage girls to seek education – but it also made her a target.

She does not remember being shot on a schoolbus in October 2012 – but her horrified friends recall that the Taliban asked for Malala by name before shooting straight at her head.

Everything, from schoolbooks to clothes, were soaked in blood and Malala was near death.

She travelled to Britain for treatment but her injuries were so bad that her father asked relatives to start arranging her funeral.

Salma Hayek (right) is married to François-Henri Pinault, the billionaire chair of Kerring. Pictured with Oprah and Malala

In 2021, she married Asser in Birmingham. Cricket-mad Asser was educated at a private school in Lahore, Pakistan before going on to work for Coca Cola and becoming a cricket executiv

However, thankfully Malala slowly pulled through after being transferred to an army cardiology hospital with better intensive care.

After making a recovery, Malala and her family settled in Birmingham and she went on to study PPE at Oxford University. 

She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17.

In 2021, she married Asser in Birmingham.

Cricket-mad Asser was educated at a private school in Lahore, Pakistan before going on to work for Coca Cola and becoming a cricket executive.

Mr Malik also runs an amateur league franchise called Last Man Stands in Pakistan, which he has described as an attempt to ‘revive grassroots cricket in Pakistan in an organised and structured way’.

To keep her dazzling dress the focus, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians alum slipped her feet into a pair of beige knit boots

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He is a vocal supporter of equal rights for women and often lends his voice to the promotion of women’s cricket in Pakistan via his social media channels.

So fittingly, he was by her side at the event, co-chaired by Salma Hayek.

Ms Hayek is married to  François-Henri Pinault, the billionaire chair of Kerring.    

A-listers including Kim Kardashain, Oprah Winfrey,  Christy Turlington, Olivia Wilde and Zoe Kravitz  were at the event that ‘address gender-based violence.’

‘Despite alarming setbacks in women’s rights around the world, there has been heartening progress to address violence against women in the last 15 years, and we must continue to harness the power of collaboration and solidarity to ensure that all women can lead fulfilling lives free from violence,’ Pinault said in a statement head of Tuesday’s soiree.

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