Aliya Hollub

I start with an idea

and build the story, image and world around it.

Strike Magazine

Editor-in-Chief

As Editor-in-Chief of Strike, a national fashion and culture publication, I led a 50+ person creative team in producing the magazine from concept to publication, shaping each issue across editorial, photography, styling, casting, creative direction and production.

50+
Creative team
607%
Reach growth
233%
Engagement growth
Fashion Show
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Hollub Group

Brand + Marketing Lead
A green stair hall hung with framed artwork

Today, I help shape how my family’s 72-year-old business tells its story.

As Brand & Creative Manager, I develop Hollub Group’s contemporary voice across design, construction and real estate, from finding the story behind a material or architectural detail to concepting, writing, filming and editing the finished piece.

A floating oak staircase climbing past two large abstract paintings beneath clerestory windows
Marvin Hollub in 1954, leaning on a streetlamp on a cleared lot with pines behind him
Marvin Hollub, 1954.
Relationship built since 1954

Founded by Marvin Hollub in 1954, Hollub has grown across three generations and more than 1,000 homes without losing the idea at the center of the business: relationships last beyond the build.

A long walnut built-in wall with integrated lighting beneath an illuminated white brick ceiling
A freestanding tub set against a mosaic wall, with veined stone wrapping the window, floor and niche
A bar with a glowing stone countertop and walnut base in front of a glass display wall
Privacy by design

The best outdoor spaces feel like they’re yours alone.

Leveling up

Planned months in advance to get the floors perfectly level. Nobody sees it. That’s exactly the point.

Inside the material: cave edition

Trame Organiche Scolpito Matrix from Ajami 1971 is inspired by the caves found within mountain paths. Sometimes, a little rough around the edges is exactly the point.

A double-height living room with blue lounge chairs, opening through tall glass doors to a private pool garden
A warm living room at sunset, cream curved sofa and marble table, light falling through the garden doors
Selected Social
A Hollub home at sunset, lit windows reflected in the pool beneath a pink and orange sky
A Hollub-built home, featured by Ryan Serhant.

Hollub Group’s Compass-affiliated real estate business extends the brand across property marketing, listing collateral, open houses and sales materials for luxury residential properties.

Rock ’N Run

Co-Founder & Event Director
Fight N’ Heal. Pink N’ Teal.
500+ participants · $750K+ raised

After my mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, I co-founded Rock ’N Run with her in response to a gap we experienced firsthand: a lack of accessible education around breast and ovarian cancer risk, testing and prevention. We set out to transform fear into agency, giving our Miami community the information, resources and support to take a more active role in their health.

We also reimagined what a charity 5K could feel like. Instead of making the race the entire experience, we built a day around it, with a dance class, music, health education and partner activations designed to make advocacy feel as engaging and communal as it was purposeful.

A large crowd of Rock N Run participants in race bibs and pink, white and black shirts gathered under palm trees at the start
A dance instructor in a grey shirt and pink knee socks mid-move on stage beside a Rock N Run banner and pink and teal balloons
Dance class at Rock ’N Run.
A gym full of participants in Rock N Run shirts following a dance class together
A bright pink Miami Cancer Institute mobile mammography truck parked on grass, reading Mammograms Save Lives
On-site mammograms.
Miami Cancer Institute flyer for a panel discussion titled Fight N Heal Pink N Teal: A Look at Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Friday, October 8, 11:30 a.m. on Zoom
Breast + ovarian cancer panel.
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Writing

Green satin Dior sandals with embroidered lily-pad soles

Fashion Got Smart. Did It Leave Women Behind?

You used to need cheekbones to belong in fashion. Now you need a bibliography.

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Two black split-toe flats on gold platters

How the Dupe Became the First Choice

The dupe used to be second best. Now, even shoppers who can afford the original are opting out.

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Black pinstripes bending around a restroom pictogram

The Ladies’ Room

At a UFC event, the women’s bathroom became the main event.

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WE-AR4

Product Coordinator

Joining WE-AR4 in its early startup years meant working across more than one lane. The New York-based responsible fashion brand rethinks the traditional design process, starting with luxury deadstock and excess materials rather than producing new ones. As Product Coordinator, I worked across product, studio and wholesale operations while also writing product copy for the brand’s e-commerce assortment.

Carried by Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom.
Selected Product Copy
Product copy written for WE-AR4.
The WE-AR4 Oversized Kaftan
Oversized Kaftan

“Like wearing a warm summer breeze, the Oversized Kaftan turns a classic men’s shirt into an airy, effortless dress.”

The WE-AR4 Pastry Box 20 bag
Pastry Box 20

“Staying true to its name, The Pastry Box 20 is a witty reimagining of a sweet classic.”

Behind the Scenes
The WE-AR4 SoHo showroom
SoHo showroom, prepared for retailer, influencer and VIP appointments.
A Garment District factory floor
Garment District production, with samples tracked and coordinated across factory teams.
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Purple PR

VIP & Influencer Intern

No task too small.

Fashion Week taught me that behind every polished event is a very unpolished list of things someone has to make happen. At Purple, I supported VIP and influencer relations across fashion clients, working directly with VIPs at shows and events alongside sample trafficking, gifting, talent dressing and backstage and front-of-house production.

Selected clients included Brunello Cucinelli, Casablanca, BOSS, Mônot and Balmain Hair.

10+ NYFW shows. 20–30 stylists and editors.

Sample trafficking, talent dressing, VIP relations, backstage and front of house.

A model with a full afro walking the Brunello Cucinelli runway in a beaded silver gown, hand in pocket, seated guests behind her
Brunello Cucinelli, NYFW.
New York Fashion Week
A model backstage in a black jersey with a waist-length braid, mirrors and stylists behind her
Hair and makeup backstage, NYFW.
A beaded silver fringe dress bagged in plastic on a rack
Looks bagged and ready for pickup.
Two award recipients holding a Fashion Media Awards trophy in front of a sponsor step and repeat
The Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards.
A model walking a NYFW runway in an orange draped dress with a long chiffon train
Pamella Roland, NYFW.
A model on a dark runway in a blue beaded fringe look holding a long braid
Tia Adeola rehearsal, NYFW.
A pile of bagged Daily Front Row magazines and gold party favors
Party favors, show day.
An empty red carpet running to brass revolving doors under a West 49th Street sign
VIP arrivals at the Rainbow Room, NYFW.
personally escorted Ethan Hawke
A blue bucket of water and red rose petals sitting at the foot of an escalator
Rose petals cleared off the escalator on show day.

Marked

Personal project
Photography · Creative direction

A photographic series shaped by my mom’s experience with ovarian cancer and my own BRCA1 diagnosis.

Black and white photograph, torso and hands

Survivorship comes with its own set of expectations. Once you are no longer actively sick or dying, survivor is handed to you like a prize, an identity you are supposed to wear with gratitude. The word carries assumptions of relief, triumph, even happiness. It leaves less room for what survival can actually contain: fear, grief, an altered relationship to your body, and the uncomfortable expectation that being alive should make all of it feel worth it.

My relationship to cancer exists in an unusual tense. I have a BRCA1 mutation, which led me to undergo a preventative double mastectomy before ever becoming a cancer patient, making permanent decisions about my body in response to a disease I was trying to prevent.

Black and white photograph, figure with knees drawn up
Black and white photograph, reclining figure
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