Big print, bell sleeves and our second-place model. Sewreffic made our shortlist for the best designs of the Opening.
By Anthony Perlas, Correspondent, Nightlife Report
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Oct. 17, 2026 · Follow: @sewreffic
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Sewreffic walked “The Opening” at the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week on Friday, Oct. 16, in front of an amber-and-gold flame visual on the LED wall at The Lot Studios. It left with two things from Nightlife Report: a place among the best designs of the night, and the lineup that carried our second-place model, Emily.
Nightlife Report picks are editorial opinion by our correspondent. They are not official results of The Bureau Fashion Week, which announced no winners.
The looks
Print was the headline. One look paired an orange, olive and black paisley-style print with full bell sleeves, cinched by a wide black waist belt and finished with black ankle-strap heels. Emily walked in a black top over a gold-and-navy dot-print maxi skirt. Against the flame wall, both looks read warm and bold from the pit and in a still frame.
Our second-place pick
In Nightlife Report’s final placings, second place goes to Emily (@emilysophiechristine), who walked for Sewreffic. In our Runway Points format, that is the second-place finish in the individual bracket, behind Model of the Event Ava Kortman (@avakortman), who walked for Krown Kink, with Kyla Dodds in third. Emily is also the lead image of our Day 1 coverage.
Who is Sewreffic?
A label named Sewreffic has runway miles before Los Angeles. Sewreffic appears on the Austin Fashion Week lineup for Nov. 11, 2022, at The Domain (MoveToAustin), and again on the Austin Fashion Week Fall 2023 Day 2 lineup (Morgan ma Belle). We are matching those listings to the Bureau’s Sewreffic by name; the brand has not confirmed it to us.
The brand’s Instagram bio keeps it simple: “I love sewing, trying new things and trying to launch my dreams.” The Bureau lists Sewreffic on the Opening bill. (The Bureau Fashion Week schedule) We have not confirmed the designer’s name in a public source, so we are not printing it yet.
The Nightlife Report Awards, Opening Night
| Award (Nightlife Report pick) | Winner |
|---|---|
| Model of the Event | Ava (walked for Krown Kink) |
| Model of the Year | Ava |
| Runner-up | Emily (walked for Sewreffic) |
| Third place | Kyla Dodds (walked for Krissy King) |
| Best Overall Modeling Team | Deborah Beaumont Designs |
| Among the best designs | Sewreffic |
Nightlife Report picks are editorial opinion by our correspondent. They are not official results of The Bureau Fashion Week, which announced no winners.
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The designer: @sewreffic
Further reading: the Ford lens
Our correspondent judges the runway against a Ford Models standard as an editorial lens: presence, professionalism, poise and how a model reads on camera. We leave out the body rules. These books explain where that standard came from.
- Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty by Robert Lacey (Harper, 2015). The biography of the Ford Models co-founder. Publisher page · Bookshop.org · About the author (Wikipedia)
- Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross (1995). A history of the modeling business, Ford included. Publisher page · Bookshop.org · About the author (Wikipedia)
- Eileen Ford: Wikipedia overview.
More from the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week
- Ava steals the show: Opening Night through the Eileen Ford lens
- Ava vs Emily: The Colosseum of Day 1
- EXCLUSIVE: Inside Krown Kink with Casey Lee Parker
- Nightlife Report Top News: Bureau LAFW
Updated Oct 18: Emily Sophie Christine second, Kyla Dodds third (Krissy King).
