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NIGHTLIFE REPORT EXCLUSIVE · By Anthony Perlas, Correspondent, Nightlife Report · Sun Oct 18, 2026

WEST HOLLYWOOD: Maia Wall (@maiawall03) walked for Krissy King (@krissykingthelabel) in The Bureau Fashion Week’s Los Angeles Finale on Saturday, Oct 17, 2026, at The Lot Studios, 1041 N Formosa Ave. I shot the segment from the media pit.

Her look: a light-blue sequined two-piece and oversized pink-and-white feather wings, walked under a screen of mermaids and seahorses with “KRISSY KING” across it.

The Krissy King segment

Krissy King showed in the 8:30 PM Finale. The wings came in one colour after another: red and white, all-white, pale pink, pink and gold, and oversized sheer purple. Partway through, the screen art switched from the mermaids to “KRISSY KING IN THE SKY,” with flamingos and hot-air balloons.

After the post

Our Instagram post of this frame on @lillithmagic is a collaboration with @krissykingthelabel and @christinarunstherunway. It was reposted by @maiawall03, @satginstudio and @kari_brin.a9. Thank you.

We haven’t interviewed Maia Wall or Krissy King for this story, so there are no quotes here. If you walked, styled or worked this show and want to add something on the record, write to editor@nightlifereport.app.

More from the Bureau weekend: the runway album · From Their Stories: what the Bureau runway said online · Nightlife Report home · talk about it on the forum.

Disclosure: I attended on a Bureau media credential. Nightlife Report is independent; this story isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by The Bureau Fashion Week or Krissy King. Editorial use only; images are web-size and watermarked. Credit: Krissy King for The Bureau Fashion Week.

The runway was the arena. The pit was the tribune. One woman left with the laurels.

By Anthony Perlas · Nightlife Report · Sun Oct 18, 2026, PT

Editorial picks. The Venus Games is Nightlife Report’s own editorial format, scored under our Runway Points rules. These are our picks at Bureau LA Fashion Week, Oct 16-17, 2026, not official Bureau awards. The Bureau announced no winners.

Darlings, picture it. A long, lit strip of floor at The Lot Studios on Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood. A packed house on both sides. And at the far end, a pit of photographers on a riser, monopods planted like standards, every lens aimed at the same center line. That’s our Colosseum. The models are the contenders, the runway is the arena, and the media pit is the judges’ tribune.

One rule before the gates open: nobody here is a rival. Nobody gets thrown to the lions. In this arena everyone is a contender, and the only thing being fought over is the light.

The tribune: five seats in the pit

The panel sits where the photographers sit, because that’s where the verdict gets made: frame by frame, at the end mark. Five seats. Here’s who’s in them, and what’s real.

Rhea Colburn, Willa Kester and Remy Talcroft are original fictional personas written for Nightlife Report. They aren’t real people, they weren’t in the room, and they aren’t based on, named after or voiced like any real TV judge or industry figure. The Media Pit is a collective seat, not a named photographer. At Bureau, no Media Pit ballot was collected or counted, so under our “pending means pending” rule that card reads pending. Nobody filed stand-in scores for it. The real eye in the pit, and the final call, belonged to Anthony.

What the tribune scores

Editor’s note: the panel scores performance, not looks.

Every seat uses the same Runway Points card: Walk, Presence, Styling and Camera, 0-10 each. Walk covers pace, line, the turn and control at the end mark. Presence asks whether the room watches her and whether she owns the space. Walk confidence lives in those two boxes. Styling is hair, makeup, accessories and fit, and whether the look reads as one whole. Camera asks whether the look holds in a still from the pit.

What never gets scored: faces, bodies, symmetry, physique, height, weight, age, or anyone’s beauty. Not in a number, not in a word, not ever.

The points: 16, 12, 10

The laurels come with points, and the points come from the place. Our Runway Points rules borrow college wrestling’s championship scale: 1st 16, 2nd 12, 3rd 10, then 9, 7, 6, 4 and 3 down to eighth. Places 4-8 weren’t filed at Bureau. The points follow the place, not the person. The head judge sets the order, and the comparison round tests it.

One honest limit on the chart below: at Bureau we published no numeric category scores. The comparison round was marked in words, from stills, not video. So the scoreboard shows those word marks exactly as filed, next to the placement points. We didn’t turn “Edge” into a number, because that number would be made up.

GOLD: Ava Kortman

She stole the show. Then she came back the next night and stole it again.

Day 1, “The Opening,” Fri Oct 16. Ava Kortman (@avakortman) wore a black lace top and red satin wide-leg trousers under the LED wall. At the end mark the look reads clean: the satin catches the wall light and the frame works without a caption. In Day One to Day Two, Anthony called her the one he “couldn’t look away from: presence, poise, and a total command of the camera.” Friday’s board had her on top, as our Model of the Event.

Day 2, “The Finale,” Sat Oct 17. Per our editor, Ava walked the black-and-gold feather wings look in the closing segment: gold top, jeweled bottom, the mermaid screen behind her, frames P1001097 and P1001100. In P1001100 the black wings sweep to the floor with gold-tipped feathers, and the whole look sits squarely in the frame. Wings are the hardest garment in the arena. They’re wider than the walk.

On the scoreboard: Edge on posture and line, the pose at the end mark, garment presentation, carrying the look first step to exit, and the camera, where she was even with Emily on Day 1. Two nights, one standard. 16 points. Gold. Nightlife Report Model of the Year.

SILVER: Emily Sophie Christine

Emily Sophie Christine (@emilysophiechristine) carried a black top and gold-and-navy dot-print maxi under the flame wall, with bold print, bell sleeves and a wide black belt. That’s a busy garment to present, and it still reads cleanly in a still. Her case is depth. The pit’s camera found her four times on Day 1, in the P1000704 to P1000713 run, and the look held in every frame. On camera she tied the champion. She moved up from third in the comparison round. On Saturday, per our editor, she walked the Finale too. 12 points. Silver.

BRONZE: Kyla Dodds

Kyla Dodds (@kyla.doddsss) closed out the Finale in red-and-white feather wings over a white beaded fringe top. In P1001038 the wings are held open at the edges. That’s the biggest single garment moment of the weekend, on the closing bill. Two frames on our card put her third, behind a deeper Emily file. Still on the podium. 10 points. Bronze.

The full head-to-heads: The Venus Games: Comparison Round. The full board: Final Results: Bureau LAFW, Oct 2026. The rulebook: How The Venus Games Works.

Everyone else who entered the arena

The other models. Two nights, two full bills, and plenty of strong walks beyond our three medalists. But our notes don’t tie any other model to a specific look and night, so we’re not naming anyone else as a contender. Being left off this page isn’t a ranking, and not being scored isn’t a judgment. A story handle shows who posted a frame, not who walked. If you walked and want your credit, tag us and we’ll check.

The verdict from the tribune

Two nights in the arena. Three medals: gold for Ava Kortman, silver for Emily Sophie Christine, bronze for Kyla Dodds. And one champion who did it twice. Nothing on either night’s slate took the crown off her.

What stays unconfirmed: crowd reaction to any of the three walks. Stride and turns weren’t scored, because we shot stills, not video. The Media Pit card is pending. And no medalist is quoted here, because we won’t quote what we haven’t read.

Editorial scoring: The Venus Games and Runway Points are Nightlife Report editorial picks by head judge Anthony Perlas. They aren’t official Bureau awards, and the Bureau announced no winners. Rhea Colburn, Willa Kester and Remy Talcroft are fictional panel personas. The Media Pit is a collective seat, not a person, and its card is pending. “The Colosseum” is our metaphor for the runway, not a contest between models. We judge the walk and the presentation only: never faces, bodies or beauty. Anything we couldn’t confirm says “unconfirmed.”

The runway ended Saturday night. The press release went out after 2 AM, one story frame at a time.

By Anthony Perlas · Nightlife Report · Sun Oct 18, 2026, PT

How to read this piece. Every quote below is public story or caption text, copied as it appeared and credited to the account that posted it. A handle on a story shows who posted the frame. It doesn’t confirm who walked, for which house, or on which night. Where we can’t pin something down, we say unconfirmed. The Venus Games placings are Nightlife Report editorial picks, not official Bureau awards.

Darlings, the lights went down on the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week Finale at The Lot Studios on Saturday night. Then the second show started, on phones. Between Saturday morning and the small hours of Sunday, one swim label’s story reel turned into a running diary of the weekend, stitched together from frames reshared by people who were in the room: wings, robes, a Bureau credential card, a thank-you note, and one frame that may not be from this weekend at all.

I shot the runway from the pit. This is the other half of the record: what the runway said about itself online.

The reel: fourteen frames, one label

The account is @krissykingthelabel, the swim label that walked the Bureau’s Saturday 8:30 PM Finale as Krissy King Swim. We read its live story reel frame by frame early Sunday, between about 2:30 and 2:50 AM PT: fourteen frames, oldest to newest. Instagram stamps each frame with its age, so the times below are approximate.

The frames that spoke for themselves:

• Saturday, about 8:30 AM PT. A frame reshared from @allycullipher: “Today is OUR LAFW Show Day!” and, under it, “The girls’ Super Bowl is in 2 days.” Hold that thought. We’ll come back to it.
• Saturday, about 6:30 PM PT. From @avarosegiannini: a card held up in a dim venue that reads “THE BUREAU FASHION WEEK – MODEL,” tagged to @thebureaufashionweek and @krissykingthelabel.
• Saturday, about 8:30 PM PT, right around the Finale’s start time. No reshare handle, a Charli xcx track (“Speed Drive,” from the Barbie album), feather wings seen from behind, and the line “The Angles Have Landed at LAFW.” Yes, “Angles.” The typo is on the frame, and we’re leaving it there. A wing emoji sits between the words.
• Sunday, about 12:30 AM PT. A runway frame watermarked by @satginstudio, tagged to the Bureau and the label, with a “Los Angeles, California” location sticker and the KRISSY KING backdrop in shot.
• Sunday, roughly 2:15 to 2:45 AM PT, the after-hours rush. From @marchandlynae: “Thanks LAFW, I had a blast.” From @kyla.doddsss: “Tonight’s show,” with both tags. And the reel’s last word, from @avarosegiannini: “@krissykingthelabel does LAFW the best.”

Also in the reel, and not evidence of anything in particular: a frame from @maiawall03 that reads only “bro,” a mirror selfie, a backstage make-up moment, a crowd facing the KRISSY KING screen, and a reshare from @swimweekmia captioned “Throwback to Miami.” That last one is plainly not this weekend, and it tells you how a label’s story really works. It’s a scrapbook, not a ledger.

One timing note we can’t settle from Instagram alone. “Tonight’s show” and “Thanks LAFW” landed on the label’s story after 2 AM Sunday. That fits the Saturday Finale, but they may be reshares of clips posted earlier. The time each original went up is unconfirmed.

The frame that doesn’t add up

Back to frame one. “Today is OUR LAFW Show Day!” sits over “The girls’ Super Bowl is in 2 days.” Its “Watch full reel” link goes to a reel @allycullipher posted on Fri Oct 16, whose caption tags @victoriassecret and asks “Who’s watching Sunday?”

Victoria’s Secret says its Fashion Show streams live from Los Angeles today, Sunday Oct 18, at 4:30 PM PT. Count two days back from Sunday and you land on Friday. Krissy King Swim walked Saturday’s Finale. So the “show day” in that frame was a different day, or a different show, or the frame was made on Friday and reposted on Saturday. We don’t know which. Unconfirmed, and possibly a recycled frame. We’re not reading it as proof of who walked when.

The Angel crossover

Here’s the plot line nobody announced and everybody posted. On Wed Oct 14, @allycullipher posted a reel in collaboration with the label, captioned “Every girl dreams of her @victoriassecret angel moment… I just got to have my own version @krissykingthelabel” and “It’s almost officially the girls’ Super Bowl!”, with #VSFashionShow. Early Sunday, a frame credited to the same handle on the label’s story read “@krissykingthelabel meets @victoriassecret”, over a black-and-white group shot in feather wings. And Krissy King’s link-in-bio carries an “Angel Energy Girls Application.”

Let’s be precise. That’s framing, by the label and by the people posting about it. Nothing we found says Victoria’s Secret has any tie to Krissy King, and none was announced. What is on the record: a swim label put feather wings on the Bureau’s closing runway in Los Angeles the night before the Victoria’s Secret show in Los Angeles, and the people posting about it said “Angel” out loud.

The rest of the room

The label wasn’t the only account turning stories into a credits roll. When we read @thebureaufashionweek‘s own story reposts on Saturday afternoon, much of the talking came from the people behind the cameras and the brushes:

• @d.bryanbryxph: “Day 2 of LAFW with @thebureaufashionweek.”
• @berhanewediriiephotography: “LAFW at @thebureaufashionweek.”
• @satginstudio: “shooting from the media pit all weekend.” Hello, neighbour. See you on the riser.
• @journeykayofficial: “Ready to hit the LAFW runway!!!” Which show and which house: unconfirmed.
• @lucyluxxury: “Styled by @lucyluxxury,” on an “LA day” frame.
• @kingschocolateco: “Busy in LA! @cru.king.” Their role at the shows: unconfirmed.

The producer’s own feed, meanwhile, kept it minimal. Its LAFW recap reel and its Day 2 carousel carried hashtags, not handles, when we checked on Saturday. The credits lived in the stories.

Disclosure, because we’d want it from anyone else: one of the Bureau’s Saturday story reshares was Nightlife Report’s own Sewreffic collab post, crediting Emily Sophie Christine and the Sewreffic design.

Where the podium sits

Our final Venus Games board, as it stands after the comparison round:

1. Ava Kortman, for Krown Kink, the house of Casey Lee Parker. Nightlife Report Model of the Year.
2. Emily Sophie Christine, for Sewreffic.
3. Kyla Dodds, for Krissy King.

Best Overall Modeling Team: Deborah Beaumont Designs.

Only one podium handle turns up in the story text above: @kyla.doddsss, whose “Tonight’s show” frame was tagged @krissykingthelabel and @thebureaufashionweek. That tag is part of how her house went on our record as Krissy King.

For Ava, for Emily and for the Deborah Beaumont team, our notes hold no story or caption text of their own from this weekend. That isn’t the same as saying they posted nothing. It means we won’t quote what we haven’t read. Their case was made on the runway, and you can see it in Bureau LAFW: Day One to Day Two.

What the stories told us

1. Swim borrowed the Angel playbook on the Angels’ own weekend. Feather wings at the Finale, “Angles Have Landed,” “meets @victoriassecret,” an “angel moment” caption and an “Angel Energy Girls” form, all the night before the Victoria’s Secret show streams from Los Angeles. An independent swim label told the same story at its own scale. Smart timing. Just don’t mistake a tag for a partnership.
2. The models’ own posts were the real press release. The producer’s feed posts we checked named no one by handle. The thank-yous, the credential card and the “Tonight’s show” tag did the crediting, and the label reshared them as they came in. If you want to know who was in the room, read the reshares. Then check them.
3. A reshare isn’t a roster. A handle on a story tells you who posted the frame, not who walked, for whom, or when. Some frames in this reel are plainly not from this weekend (“Throwback to Miami”), one may be recycled, and the late-night ones can’t be timed to the minute. That’s why this piece says “unconfirmed” as often as it does.
4. The runway doubles as a casting funnel. Krissy King’s link-in-bio holds three links: an “NYFW Casting!” Google Form, a Linktree, and the “Angel Energy Girls Application” form. Every pair of wings on Saturday was also an ad for the next casting call. We didn’t open or fill in the forms, so what they ask for is unconfirmed.
5. Stories are an archive with a 24-hour fuse. When we looked, the label had no October post in the first dozen tiles of its grid and no LAFW highlight. From the label’s side, the whole LA weekend lived in a reel that expires a day after each frame goes up. If nobody writes it down, it’s gone by Monday. So we wrote it down.
6. It’s a tour, and the label said so. On Sep 24, after the Bureau’s New York show, the label’s own caption read “We’re still not over NYFW! Next Stop: PARIS and then LA!” LA was a stop on a circuit, announced weeks out. Independent labels are building a season the way the big houses do: city by city, in public.

Keep reading

• The Venus Games: Comparison Round: three head-to-heads, one corrected board.
• Bureau LAFW: Day One to Day Two: two nights on Formosa, from the pit.

Saw a story we missed, or a credit we got wrong? Tell us on the Nightlife Report forum. We fix things in public.

How we did this: we read @krissykingthelabel’s public profile, link-in-bio and live story reel early on Sun Oct 18, between about 2:30 and 2:50 AM PT, and the Bureau’s story reposts on Saturday afternoon. Read-only: no likes, follows, comments, replies or DMs. Quotes are copied as they appeared on screen, spelling included; emoji are left out. Frame times come from Instagram’s own age stamps and are approximate. The Victoria’s Secret show date is from the brand’s own announcement.

Disclosure: Krissy King is also a Bureau co-founder and producer. One Bureau story reshare was Nightlife Report’s own post. The Venus Games and Runway Points are Nightlife Report editorial picks by head judge Anthony Perlas, not official Bureau awards; the Bureau announced no winners. We judge the walk and the presentation only, never faces or bodies.