For the Vlisco&co Lagos event, Vlisco collaborated with, among others, Daniel Obasi. Obasi created the narrative ‘An Alien in town’. The afro-futuristic shor...
After the release of The Illegal Project, which has been featured on major fashion magazines internationally, the 23-year-old Daniel was approached by fabric brand Vlisco to collaborate on a fashion film to help re-contextualise the brand for a younger generation.
The Afro-futuristic short film — as the brand refers to it — is titled An Alien in Town, was released earlier this year and follows two stylish humans who take on the responsibility of teaching a new found alien how to fit within the Lagos metropolis.
“It was really about building on the idea of having a stranger who has no idea what African fashion is or what it is like to be in Lagos to live through that in a very simple every day scenario that is completely relatable,” Daniel tells us about the film, which was shot in Lagos and Ogun state.
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