Louis-Gabriel Nouchi has built his Paris-based label on literary and cinematic obsessions, each season translating a specific cultural reference into the language of sensual tailoring and gender-fluid silhouettes. For Fall-Winter 2026, the designer turned to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien, channeling the film’s tension between fear and desire into a collection that pushes further into territories the brand has long claimed as its own.
The Source Material
“In space, no one can hear you scream.” That tagline served as Nouchi’s starting point, but the collection draws from something more personal than cinephile appreciation. As a child, the designer wasn’t allowed to watch Alien on television. He could only hear it from his room: the music, the screams, the sounds drifting from the top of the staircase. “That’s where the terror was born,” he writes in the collection notes. “Sonic, invisible, obsessive. I had nightmares, just about those sounds, for years.“
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The discovery came later, as a teenager, beginning with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 1997 Alien Resurrection rather than Scott’s original. The shock was aesthetic: H.R. Giger’s biomechanical universe, Sigourney Weaver’s utilitarian wardrobe, a horror thriller crossed with what Nouchi describes as “a strangely unsettling sensuality.” The saga’s heroines, moving through time, cloned, hunted, desirable, autonomous, always in resistance to the system, became figures of identification for the young designer.
Fear and Desire
FW26 explores the constant tension between fear and desire, anxiety and sensuality, violence and eroticism. Nouchi frames the collection through the film’s claustrophobic atmosphere: a crew lost in space, an acid-soaked closed setting, bodies awakened after years of hypersleep. Sex as danger. The shower as a trap. Pleasure as a threat.
The headpieces, designed in collaboration with hair artist Charlie Le Mindu, served as the collection’s conceptual starting point. Nouchi sketched them as embodiments of the facehugger, the parasitic creature that attaches to victims’ faces in the film. The challenge was to evoke the creature without slipping into costume. Hair devouring the face. The parasite. The mask. Anonymity as an amplifier of desire. Exposed mouths, thighs, collarbones, bare backs, and transparency complete the picture.
The Xenomorph Silhouette
The Xenomorph, Giger’s iconic creature design, fascinates Nouchi for its hybrid nature: somewhere between human, insect, and feline, a slender, tortuous, sensual form. This fascination translates into elongated silhouettes throughout the collection. Narrow tailoring, long sleeves, and slightly flared trousers stretch the body’s proportions. Elongated coats feature LGN’s signature powerful shoulders. The illusion of an extended body pervades every look.
Vintage military Bunny Boots impose a massive, almost comical foot at the base of these stretched silhouettes, creating deliberate tension between elongation and volume. The heroine’s iconic look from the films, the cropped tank top and mini brief, enters dialogue with LGN signatures. Cocooned forms balance against the stretched lines.
The belly, a site of birth and emotion central to Alien’s body horror, receives particular attention. Draped tuxedos and pleated slits on silk jersey T-shirts highlight the midsection with delicacy. Faces seem to emerge from tops or bodysuits, trapped inside lingerie jerseys worn like tights.
Material Language
The palette reads deceptively neutral: warm and cold greys, putty ecru, muted tones that recall the Nostromo’s industrial interiors. But materials divert the archetypes of the masculine wardrobe into something more unsettling. Grey flannel mixes with latex. Trompe-l’oeil technical cottons appear alongside jerseys worn like denim. Putty and ecru woolens sit next to viscous, glossy surfaces evoking skin, leather, the living.
As always at LGN, revealing skin becomes graphic: a zone of desire, a zone of power. The collection maintains the brand’s commitment to showing bodies as sites of agency rather than objectification.
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The collection arrives alongside the announcement of a partnership with OnlyFans and the launch of LGN OF, a platform extension that pushes further into territories dear to the brand: elevated sensuality, diverted fetishism, the eroticism of all types of bodies.
“Private does not mean pornographic,” Nouchi states. “Photographs of desire, in an inclusive circle for exclusive subjects.” The partnership feels natural given the collection’s themes. FW26 speaks directly about the fear of sex, its forbidden, dangerous, mysterious nature. That these themes gave birth to a horror film says everything about their ambivalence.
Discover more of the collection in our gallery:
Styling by Marc Goehring. Hair by Charlie Le Mindu. Makeup by Patrick Glatthaar. Casting by Alexandre Cyprien Junior. Production by Napoleon Studio. Music by MODE-F. Video by Baleine Sous Cachalot. Photography by Luca Tombolini.
LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi Fall-Winter 2026 was presented during Paris Men’s Fashion Week, January 2026.
