Meet @lilmami_lani , the multimedia artist, director and photographer judging the 2026 Great Playmate Search.
A cult starlet behind the camera, Alana O’Herlihy moves between Old Hollywood gloss and cybernetic chaos with ease. Part pin-up, part post-pop provocateur, O’Herlihy is a multi-hyphenate artist and director whose work blurs the lines between beauty and glitch, archive and avatar, nostalgia and what-the-hell-was-that!
With covers for Vogue, Pop Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone, her lens has captured everyone from Bella Hadid to Margaret Qualley. But it’s her own technicolor world she builds best: tangled in pop culture and teetering on the edge of camp and clairvoyance. A proud product of the iMac Photo Booth generation and the bastard child of Cindy Sherman and a MacBook Pro, she mixes analog grime with digital gloss to remix the mythology of fame, femininity and the female gaze.
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One day she’s in Paris doing a fit check outside the Louvre, the next she’s on set in Los Angeles—but somehow, she always has something to wear. Our next #WearInAWeek goes international with multi-hyphenate artist @lilmami_lani . Whether she’s directing @mileycyrus ’s latest music video, photographing @lilyallen , or showing up for her bestie @bellahadid , she still finds time to unwind in her @hotelmadamereve robe. Head to the link in bio to shop her outfits on our Substack.
