Project 6 - Daily paper Alien Luv

01/06

Daily paper Alien Luv

Alien Luv was commissioned by Daily Paper and developed with Dutch photographer Lois Cohen as a way to bring cultural and political relevance to the brand without anchoring the narrative to a single race or identity.
I developed the styling concept using a speculative, fantastical world inhabited by alien and hybrid life forms. By removing the story from a literal human context, the work addresses themes of identity, difference, and coexistence without reducing them to fixed categories.
Through casting, styling, and narrative, the editorial explores love, community, and belonging as universal conditions. The use of aliens functions as both metaphor and distance, allowing the statement to remain clear while avoiding prescriptive representation.
Alien Luv uses futurism as a strategic tool to comment on the present, positioning imagination as a way to engage political and cultural questions while remaining open, inclusive, and interpretive.

Credits

Creative Direction - Lois Cohen

Indiana Roma Voss

Photographer - Lois Cohen

Stylist - Indiana Roma Voss

Hair - Siko Berkel Van

Makeup: Kathinka Gernant

Producer - Celine Brill

Photographer Assistant: Hyung Balkema

Stylist Assistant - Lea Wilbrand

Make up Assistant - Romy Legger

Special effects / prosthetics: Toki Made

Models - Oba Emmanuel Okunola, Amber Van Oirschot

06.

Index

Daily paper Alien Luv

Alien Luv was commissioned by Daily Paper and developed with Dutch photographer Lois Cohen as a way to bring cultural and political relevance to the brand without anchoring the narrative to a single race or identity.

I developed the styling concept using a speculative, fantastical world inhabited by alien and hybrid life forms. By removing the story from a literal human context, the work addresses themes of identity, difference, and coexistence without reducing them to fixed categories.

Through casting, styling, and narrative, the editorial explores love, community, and belonging as universal conditions. The use of aliens functions as both metaphor and distance, allowing the statement to remain clear while avoiding prescriptive representation.

Alien Luv uses futurism as a strategic tool to comment on the present, positioning imagination as a way to engage political and cultural questions while remaining open, inclusive, and interpretive.