Category: Bureau Fashion Week Day 1: The Opening (Fri Oct 16, 6 PM)

WEST HOLLYWOOD — The Bureau Fashion Week’s October 2026 Los Angeles Fashion Week ran Friday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, Oct. 17, at The Lot Studios, 1041 N Formosa Ave. The Bureau’s official schedule lists five runway shows: The Opening and Friday Night on Oct. 16, then Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Evening and Saturday Night: The Finale on Oct. 17. Nightlife Report was credentialed for the media pit and photographed two of them: The Opening (Fri, 6:00 PM) and The Finale (Sat, 8:30 PM).

This page is our permanent index of that coverage. Every designer, gallery, interview and recap we published is linked below. For the house-by-house credits in one place, start with Every Designer, Model and Artist at The Bureau Fashion Week LA, October 2026 and Who Walked: Every Designer at the Bureau Fashion Week LA Finale Weekend. Photos are also collected in the Runway Album.

Day 1 · Friday, Oct. 16 · The Opening (6:00 PM)

Seven designers were on the Bureau’s published bill for The Opening. Houses are listed in the order they crossed our frames, which isn’t necessarily the official running order. Where we couldn’t confirm something, the linked page says so.

• Toshimi Pacumbala (backdrop credit; not on the published bill): looks and credits · gallery
• Susan Kim (on the bill; not in our frames): looks and credits · text-only page
• Dimez: looks and credits · gallery
• Deborah Beaumont Designs: looks and credits · gallery
• Krown Kink (designer Casey Lee Parker): looks and credits · gallery
• X-X Co.: looks and credits · gallery
• Sewreffic: looks and credits · gallery
• Saint Fortuna: looks and credits · gallery

Friday Night (8:30 PM) also ran on Oct. 16, with Kimily Jiang, House of Grace Huxley, Susan Kim, VuelaNova, Azul D Plage and Kenneth Barlis on the Bureau’s bill. We didn’t photograph that show.

Day 1 stories

• Late start, packed pit: our photographer’s Day 1 at the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week
• Nightlife Report’s Day 1 coverage ranking: Ava takes the crown, Emily’s team lands on the podium
• Who stole the show? Nightlife Report’s Day 1 model-first ranking
• Emily and the other models worth knowing from Opening Night
• Ava Kortman steals the show: Opening Night through the Eileen Ford lens
• Designer spotlight: Sewreffic at the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week
• Deborah Beaumont Designs: Best Modeling Team at Bureau LAFW
• Saint Fortuna at Bureau LA Fashion Week: Beverly Hills Couture
• Sewreffic at Bureau LA Fashion Week: Among the Best Designs
• Runway Points Day 1 Scoreboard: Bureau LA Fashion Week

Day 2 · Saturday, Oct. 17 · The Finale (8:30 PM)

The Bureau lists Saturday Afternoon (2:30 PM) and Saturday Evening (5:30 PM) shows, which we didn’t photograph. Our coverage is The Finale; the houses we can credit are below. One further house on the Bureau’s Finale bill isn’t included in our coverage.

• Naked Sewist (Doug Chinery): looks and credits · gallery
• Justin Zachary: looks and credits · gallery
• Eternal Been: looks and credits · gallery
• Siragusa (on the bill; not in our frames): looks and credits · text-only page
• Krissy King Swim (closed the show): looks and credits · gallery

Day 2 stories

• Day 2 at Bureau: The Night It All Clicked
• Inside Krissy King with Maia Wall
• Kyla Dodds Walks Krissy King Swim at The Bureau Fashion Week LA Finale
• The Wings That Closed the Finale: Kyla Dodds Takes Bronze
• Inside the Media Pit: Elbows, Egos and Grace at the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week

Recaps, results and the full credits

• What You Missed at LA Fashion Week: The Nightlife Report Recap
• Who Walked: Every Designer at the Bureau Fashion Week LA Finale Weekend
• Every Designer, Model and Artist at The Bureau Fashion Week LA, October 2026
• Bureau LAFW: Day One to Day Two
• Final Results: Bureau LAFW Oct 2026
• Nightlife Report’s Model of the Year: Ava Kortman Takes Our Bureau LAFW Gold
• Watch Live: Nightlife Report at Bureau LAFW
• From Their Stories: What the Bureau Runway Said Online
• Nightlife Report Top News: Bureau LAFW

Interviews

• EXCLUSIVE: Inside Krown Kink with Casey Lee Parker
• Spotted in Line: Top LA Influencer Jacqueline “Nami Mami” Laurito Knows Exactly Who She’s There For
• From Netflix’s The Circle to the Closing Walk: Kevin Fernandez Isn’t Done Yet
• The Night Before Victoria’s Secret Put 16 Moms on Its Runway, Mirka Howard Made Her LA Debut
• From Nueva Ecija to Four Fashion Capitals, Sofhia Flores Credits ‘One Person Believing in You’
• Runway Now, Producer Next: Nicole Anne Williams’s Plan

The Venus Games (our editorial model rankings)

The Venus Games is Nightlife Report’s own editorial ranking, not a Bureau award.

• How The Venus Games Works (and Why Ava Kortman Won It)
• The Venus Games: Comparison Round
• The Venus Games: Inside the Colosseum
• Ava Kortman vs Emily: The Colosseum of Day 1
• Ava Kortman: Scouting Report
• Battle of the Gods: The Venus Games Rematch, Vote Today for First Place

How fashion week works: explainers and essays

• How a fashion week really works: money, labor and the Ford standard
• The Business of Beauty: From Eileen Ford to the LA Runway
• Why Two Days? Inside the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week Format
• The Future of Modeling Is Here: OTTE
• Strip It to the Studs: How a Runway Show Really Works
• Two Minutes, One Shot: Inside the Runway Walk at Bureau LAFW
• Built for the Lens: Light, LED Walls and the Photo Pit at Bureau LAFW
• From Bone Needle to LED Wall: How Runway Looks Are Built
• The Seat Map: What a Bureau LA Fashion Week Ticket Really Buys
• The Afterlife of a Look: How Runway Moments Spread
• Validation vs. Invalidation: What Fashion Week Teaches Creators About Approval
• How We Score a Runway: The Nightlife Report Rubric
• Fashion Week Myths vs Facts
• Fashion Week Isn’t Dead: Evie’s Editor Had a Blast in New York. We Had One in West Hollywood.

Full galleries

Every gallery above is a free web selection. Want every frame? Full galleries start at $7/month at patreon.com/aperlas. Video reports are on our video page.

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Schedule, venue and show times are from The Bureau Fashion Week’s official LA Fashion Week schedule (read Oct. 20, 2026). Designer and model credits are from our published coverage. All photos are by Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report. The Bureau did not review this page.