—With Vivian Jenna Wilson Carrying a Monumental Grain of Rice
In “A Glimpse of Divinity,” Yuchen Han turns childhood trauma and spiritual awakening into a 34-look manifesto for the New Earth.
NEW YORK, September 10, 2026 — At New York Men’s Day during New York Fashion Week, ALIENANT declared war on the systems that assign human worth before we can define ourselves: money, power, politics, class, family expectation and inherited identity. Founder and creative director Yuchen Han transformed a recurring childhood nightmare and his 2023 spiritual awakening into “A Glimpse of Divinity,” a 34-look SS27 collection about release, rebirth and self-authorship. At its center, special guest and muse Vivian Jenna Wilson carried a monumental grain of rice from Han’s dream through ALIENANT’s collaboration with Costway, turning inherited weight into the season’s defining image of rebellion and healing.
FROM NIGHTMARE TO DIVINITY
Before it became a collection, “A Glimpse of Divinity” was a nightmare. Growing up amid domestic violence from his father, Han felt alien to the world and kept asking: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? The fear returned in a recurring dream of a tiny ant carrying a grain of rice larger than a mountain.
In late 2023, a spiritual awakening changed the nightmare into a revelation. Han saw the ant as every human being and the rice as the burden accumulated through money, power, fear, desire, family expectation and social conditioning. “A Glimpse of Divinity” begins at that rupture—when pain reveals its meaning, the burden can be named, and inherited identity can be replaced by self-authorship. Han identifies as an alien soul and a starseed, with fashion as the language of that mission.
“I am an alien soul, and I am a starseed,” says Han. “Fashion is the language I use to transmit what I came here to do.”
A NEW WORLD WRITTEN IN CLOTHES
Across 34 wearable yet avant-garde looks, thorns turn pain into beauty and rebirth; angel hats invoke divine protection; 11:11 marks Angel Time; and the NOW symbol declares that Time Is Now. The Universal Citizen Passport rejects identity assigned by nationality, class or birth. ANTGEL—part ant, part angel—moves through a world of crawling ants, UFOs and an alien baby looking toward the stars beside a human child.
New York energy meets Chinese healing and Eastern spirituality through elements including lightning-struck wood. Together they form Star City and its Universal Citizens: a New Earth beyond borders and inherited hierarchy, where money no longer determines value, politics no longer determines belonging and suffering is not the price of worth.
The New Earth has already arrived. Welcome to the New Earth, Universal Citizen.
VIVIAN JENNA WILSON CARRIES THE WEIGHT
Through ALIENANT’s collaboration with Costway, Vivian Jenna Wilson entered the presentation as the living embodiment of the collection’s central question: Who are we when we step outside the identities our fathers, families and society have written for us? The world continues to introduce Wilson through her father, yet her power lies precisely in refusing to let “the world’s richest man’s daughter” become the final definition of her life. The public recognizes his name; she insists on her own.
Han’s and Wilson’s experiences are different, but both have had to separate their identities from the influence of a father. For Han, paternal power first appeared privately through violence and fear inside the home. For Wilson, the weight of her father’s name made her struggle for self-definition intensely public. Their stories meet through the same question: Who am I outside the life my father imagined for me?
When Wilson carried the monumental grain of rice, it became a father’s name, family expectations, inherited privilege and the public gaze. She did not carry it to accept that weight, but to make it visible—and to show that it could be put down. The rice also represents the strength developed by those who have carried what once seemed impossible. In that moment, Han’s childhood dream received a new ending, while Wilson’s refusal to be defined received a physical form. Their stories met in an image of mutual recognition, release and healing.
Wilson also presented the ALIENANT × Costway art scarf HOME: Wherever You Are, You’re Home. Here, home is not an address, bloodline or a father’s surname. Home is what remains when imposed identities fall away and a person can still recognize who they are. To become yourself is to arrive home.
ABOUT YUCHEN HAN AND ALIENANT
Yuchen Han is the founder and creative director of ALIENANT and a contestant on Project Runway Season 21. Founded in New York in 2019, ALIENANT is a divine avant-garde streetwear brand that turns spiritual awakening, Eastern philosophy, outsider identity and transformation into wearable symbols. More than clothing, ALIENANT is an interstellar mission—emotional armor for every “little ant” ready to recognize what it carries, break the inherited script and choose what it becomes.
Born in Shadow, Rising as Light.
PARTNERS
The presentation also featured footwear and accessories from Li-Ning, Daphne Lab, Chienchun, C. Protocol and Hidden Wooo, alongside press-on nail technology by Aurami.