Multi-hyphenate Lika O opened Jesse Lee Designs’ anime-inspired ‘XII: SHINJU’ show at New York Fashion Week’s Sony Hall
Lika O opened Jesse Lee Designs’ New York Fashion Week show at Sony Hall in Times Square on September 12. The presentation was part of Runway 7’s Spring/Summer 2027 season and marked Jesse Lee Designs’ debut on the platform. Jesse Lee Designs presented XII: SHINJU, a collection influenced by anime, manga, fantasy, video games and Japanese culture.
For Lika O, this was familiar ground. She entered a modeling agency at 13, when fashion was still a teenage ambition rather than one piece of a much larger career. Born Lika Osipova in Pyatigorsk, Russia, she went on to model in Europe and participate in more than 10 national pageants before moving to the United States in 2006. Fashion had already taken her well beyond her first modeling agency by then.
In Los Angeles, she eventually created Miss Russian LA, a Russian beauty and talent competition that she ran for more than a decade. New York Fashion Week became another regular stop. Since 2022, Lika O has worked with Runway 7, appearing for different designers and taking both opening and closing positions.
That history is worth keeping in view when looking at what she does now. Music came later. So did acting and producing. The disciplines overlap, but the fashion experience predates them. She knows the mechanics of a runway because she has been around them since she was a teenager.
Jesse Lee Designs’ XII: SHINJU collection gave her latest appearance a very different setting from the pageants and European shows where she began. The designer, a Dominican-American raised in the Bronx, drew on the Shinju characters from Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, using structured silhouettes, asymmetry, metal hardware, eyelet details and layered construction. Lee was also nominated for Emerging Designer of the Year at the 2026 Runway 7 Fashion Awards.
Lika O’s fashion work sits inside a much larger creative career. Music has remained active alongside the runway. She has continued releasing singles, including “Lika’s On,” released in January 2026, while her earlier work includes “Shoot First,” “Don’t Mess With Me,” “Get Me,” “Grow,” and “The Way I Move.” Her Shoot First project also brought music and film together, with Lika O starring alongside Eric Roberts and Paris Dylan in a short film and music video shot in Las Vegas.
Television is now taking up more space in the picture. Lika O created Love or Lie?, a reality dating series she produced and co-hosted with Peter Madrigal of Vanderpump Rules. Filmed in Las Vegas, the series has Paris Dylan as showrunner and director. Lika O also recorded the official soundtrack and co-produced the original song with writer Boris K.
The show is expected to be released on Prime Video in early 2027. Lika O also recorded the official soundtrack for Love or Lie?, adding another dimension to her role in the project. By then, the series will add another credit to a résumé that already stretches from modeling and pageantry into music, film, and television production.
Still, that multi-hyphenate path leads back to a familiar foundation. Lika O started in fashion at 13, built experience through modeling and pageantry, moved into producing, then expanded into music, acting and screen projects. Opening Jesse Lee Designs’ latest New York Fashion Week show brings that history back to where much of it began: the runway. And for Lika O, fashion remains less a side project than one of the threads running through an unusually varied career.
