Can childhood nightmares turn into good clothes?

At its core, LGN’s FW26 collection Alien is about sex — but more specifically, the fear of it. That tension goes all the way back to childhood for Louis Gabriel Nouchi, who wasn’t allowed to watch ALIEN as a child, so he ended up absorbing its sonic horror from the top of the stairs. Years later, those early fears resurface as a futuristic, fetish-leaning collection. 

When he finally watched the saga as a teenager, starting with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film, he was immediately inspired by H.R. Giger’s biomechanical universe paired with Jean Paul Gaultier’s costumes, which made horror collide with fetishism in a way that felt unsettling and seductive. The Xenomorph itself (impossibly phallic, somewhere between human, insect and feline) became the ultimate symbol of non-human desire, and desire in turn, was collated with horror and angst. That exact push and pull is the base of LGN’s FW26 collection. 

Silhouettes are shaped by anonymity, which fetish communities rely on, which in turn demands a lot of trust. Veils that feel like alien membranes, obscure faces that seemingly try to escape an intergalactic egg. Braided hair masks (by Charli Le Mindu!) swallow faces entirely, as if taken over by a parasite. The belly, the centre of ruched openings, becomes a yonic focal point. 

The word alien carries weight beyond sci-fi. It’s increasingly used to classify and dehumanise people — particularly in the US, where being labelled an “alien” can have dangerous consequences. That reality deeply unsettles Nouchi, who also sees himself as an alien in his own way. This collection wants to unite aliens rather than alienating them.

Though OnlyFans and standing up against ICE don’t seem to have much to do with each other, the same spirit of uniting rather than alienating inspired Nouchi to launch his own OnlyFans, as a freer, more intimate way to connect with his audience than traditional social media allows. For him, fashion can bring together rather than further estrange those already pushed to the margins by conventional ideas of sexuality. So he’s been sharing erotic readings and ASMR on his OF profile, that is rooted in trust, fantasy, and fully committed to exploring the erotic potential of all bodies. The partnership with Onlyfans only feels like a natural continuation of the brand.

In the end, Alien shows that the things we want most often live right next to the things that scare us, and Louis Gabriel Nouchi has always been very good at dressing exactly that feeling. It’s a reminder too: If you’ve ever been traumatised by a film you never actually saw, keep in mind that turning that trauma into a fashion collection is an available option.