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Ava Kortman: Scouting Report | Nightlife Report

Scouting ReportBureau LA Fashion Week · Oct. 2026

Nightlife Report’s Model of the Year walked out of a West Hollywood soundstage with our crown. So who is Ava Kortman? Here’s every verified thing on the record, and our scout’s read on the rest.

By Anthony Perlas, Correspondent, Nightlife Report
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Oct. 17, 2026

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Stop scrolling. You saw her on Friday night: black lace, red satin, the Krown Kink crown burning on the LED wall behind her. Now we can put a full name to the walk. The model our coverage has been calling “Ava” is Ava Kortman (@avakortman), and yes, she’s the one we named Nightlife Report Model of the Event and Model of the Year.

Nightlife Report picks and assessments are editorial opinion by our correspondent. They are not official results of The Bureau Fashion Week, which announced no winners.

Ava Kortman walks for Krown Kink at the Bureau LA Fashion Week Opening — Ava Kortman for Krown Kink, “The Opening,” Fri. Oct. 16. Photo: Nightlife Report

The receipts: what’s actually on the record

The name and the handle. Ava Kortman, Instagram @avakortman. Confirmed to Nightlife Report by our correspondent, Oct. 17, 2026.
The show. She walked for Krown Kink, the label of designer Casey Lee Parker (krownkink.net), in “The Opening,” Friday, Oct. 16, 6 p.m., at The Lot Studios, West Hollywood. (The Bureau Fashion Week schedule; our own photos)
The look. A black lace bra top, red satin wide-leg trousers and a black waistband, under the KK crown logo on the LED wall. (Nightlife Report photos)
A prior credit. Miami Living Magazine credits “Model @avakortman” on an image in its feature on Star Mother Swimwear, a story about that brand’s debut at Miami Swim Week: The Shows at the Mondrian South Beach. The post is dated Aug. 24; the year isn’t shown on the page, and whether that image came from the runway itself is unconfirmed.

The blanks we won’t fill in

Agency: unconfirmed. Hometown: unconfirmed. Age: not public, and we’re not guessing. Other show credits: unconfirmed. Instagram blocks automated lookups, so we haven’t been able to read her profile bio from our desk. Details are to come, and when they come, they’ll come from her or her people. Ava, the inbox is open.

The scouting report (Nightlife Report analysis)

Everything in this section is Nightlife Report analysis: our correspondent’s opinion from the media pit, measured against the Ford lens of presence, professionalism, poise and camera. No body or measurement judgments, ever.

Category	Our read	What it’s based on
Walk	Upright and on line in every frame we have. We’re holding the pace-and-turn grade until we see video.	Three frames from the front and on the return; stills can’t show tempo.
Presence	The headline. The room looked up. That’s why she took Model of the Event.	Our published call from the pit, Day 1.
Camera	Reads clean at full length: red satin against a dark runway, logo framed behind her.	Our Krown Kink frames.
Versatility	Incomplete. One Bureau look, plus one swim-and-resort editorial credit.	Bureau runway; the Miami Living Magazine credit.

The scout’s bottom line (Nightlife Report analysis): Eileen Otte Ford called it “an X factor.” We’d call it the thing you can’t teach and can’t fake on a Friday night in West Hollywood. Ava Kortman had it for one walk. The big question for a Model of the Year: can she do it again, in a second look, a second show, a second city? That’s the tape we want next.

Coming up: Bureau Day 2
Day 2 is live at The Lot Studios right now: Saturday Afternoon (2:30 p.m.), Saturday Evening (5:30 p.m.) and the 8:30 p.m. Finale, where co-founder Krissy King’s own label is on the bill, per the Bureau schedule. Is the Day 1 board about to get flipped? Our Day 2 scoreboard drops after the Finale. Don’t touch that dial.

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The model: @avakortman · The designer: krownkink.net · @krownkink · @caseyleeparker1

Labels on this page: “Nightlife Report analysis” marks opinion and prediction. Everything else is sourced and linked, or marked unconfirmed.

— Anthony Perlas, Nightlife Report

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October 18, 2026

Runway Points Day 1 Scoreboard: Bureau LA Fashion Week | Nightlife Report

Runway PointsBureau LA Fashion Week · Oct. 2026

The Opening is in the books. One champion, one runner-up, one team title, and a Saturday that could flip the whole board.

By Anthony Perlas, Correspondent, Nightlife Report
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Oct. 17, 2026 · Follow: @krownkink · @caseyleeparker1 · @sewreffic · Deborah Beaumont Designs: deborahbeaumont.com · Saint Fortuna: @stfortunaexclusives · @thebureaufashionweek

Editorial scoring · Nightlife Report Runway Points are our correspondent’s picks, not an official Bureau result. The Bureau announced no winners.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Nightlife Report) — Good evening, and welcome to the desk. We are coming to you with the final from Night One of the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week at The Lot Studios, where seven designers took the runway in “The Opening” on Friday, Oct. 16. The headline tonight: Ava Kortman (@avakortman), walking for Krown Kink, takes Nightlife Report’s Model of the Event. In our final placings, Emily, for Sewreffic, is your runner-up, and Kyla Dodds takes third. And the team title, our Best Overall Modeling Team, goes to Deborah Beaumont Designs.

Let’s go down to the floor.

How Runway Points works

Think college wrestling, called like a pro esports final. Designers are teams. Every look is a bout. The models are the wrestlers. Each look gets scored on walk, fit, styling, crowd reaction and camera, and a full, consistent lineup earns depth points, just like a deep dual-meet roster. Individual placements pay out NCAA-style: 16 for the champion, 12 for second. The full rulebook, every assumption included, is published with this piece. Our correspondent judges against a Ford Models standard, presence, poise, professionalism and the camera, without the body rules.

The Day 1 bout: Ava vs Emily

Ava walks for Krown Kink at the Bureau LA Fashion Week Opening — Ava for Krown Kink, “The Opening.” Photo: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

And here. We. Go. Blue corner: Ava, Krown Kink, the luxury label of designer Casey Lee Parker. Black lace top, red satin wide-leg trouser, the KK crown burning on the LED wall. Red corner: Emily, Sewreffic, black top and a gold-and-navy dot-print maxi under the flame visual. Both looks read cleanly in a still frame.

In our Colosseum breakdown this was a best-of-five with three rounds left open. Tonight the casters close the book. Presence was the round that never really swung, and it decides the match: Ava takes the title. That is a Nightlife Report call, the kind of macro read that wins finals, and it comes with a second belt: Nightlife Report Model of the Year.

Emily takes silver in our final placings, and nobody on this desk is calling that a loss. A podium finish out of a seven-designer Opening is a deep run. Bronze goes to Kyla Dodds, our third-place pick.

Emily walks for Sewreffic — Emily for Sewreffic, second in our final placings. Photo: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

Individual bracket (editorial, final placings)

Place	Model	Team	Points
1st — Champion, Model of the Event, Model of the Year	Ava	Krown Kink	16
2nd — Runner-up	Emily	Sewreffic	Pending
3rd	Kyla Dodds	Krissy King	Pending
4th–8th	Not placed	—	—

Team race: the dual-meet board

Now to the team race, and this is where the macro game shows up. A single highlight can win a bout. A team title needs every look to hold. Deborah Beaumont Designs, the Idaho label of designer Deborah Beaumont, sent out the deepest, most consistent lineup on the Opening bill in our correspondent’s view. That is a full-roster performance, and it takes the trophy.

Rank	Team	Placement pts	Bonus	Status
1	Deborah Beaumont Designs	0	Depth: scorecard pending	Team title: Best Overall Modeling Team
T-2	Krown Kink	16	Scorecard pending	Individual champion’s team
T-2	Sewreffic	Pending	+2 design citation	Among the best designs; second-place model’s team
—	Saint Fortuna	—	Scorecard pending	Featured, not ranked
—	Susan Kim, Dimez, X-X Co.	—	—	On the bill, not scored

Reading the board: the team title is our correspondent’s pick for lineup depth. Per-look scorecards are still being filed, so bout points are pending and placement points alone do not decide team order. Krown Kink and Sewreffic are tied for second because we have not ranked them against each other.

Around the mat

Sewreffic picks up a design citation. Bold print, bell sleeves, a wide black belt and that flame wall. One of the best designs of the night, on our card.
Saint Fortuna is on our watch list. A green “SF” monogram on white open-knit with a matching green wide leg. A pure camera look.
Krown Kink rides the champion’s points into Saturday. Watch the Krown Kink interview on the blog.
Running order and full model credits for every segment are still being confirmed. If you walked, tell us and we will credit you.

A Saint Fortuna look on the Bureau runway — Saint Fortuna, “The Opening.” Photo: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

Day 2: the board is open

Which brings us to Saturday. Three more shows are on the Bureau’s schedule at The Lot Studios: 2:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and the 8:30 p.m. Finale. (Bureau schedule) New teams. New bouts. A Nightlife Report Model of the Year already named on Friday (our editorial pick; the Bureau named no winners), and a whole roster of designers who never saw Friday’s board.

Can anyone touch the title Ava took Friday night? Does a Saturday lineup out-depth Deborah Beaumont Designs? Is there a pin waiting in the Finale?

We’ll be in the pit. The Day 2 scoreboard drops after the Finale. Don’t touch that dial.

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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Instagram: @perlasunum and @lillithmagic
The designer: @krownkink · @caseyleeparker1 · @sewreffic · Deborah Beaumont Designs: deborahbeaumont.com · Saint Fortuna: @stfortunaexclusives · @thebureaufashionweek

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.

The Ford standard, as Eileen Otte Ford laid it out: the “tall, thin, often blond” Ford woman with “wide-set eyes and a long neck” (AP), and the blue-eyed Nordic look Vogue credits her with popularizing in the early 1960s (“They work hard, and they look more American than American girls,” she said of Swedish models). Anyone under 5 feet 7 was told to forget it: “If you’re short you’re not going to model. That’s it” (The Telegraph). The high-fashion bracket, as Robert Lacey records it in Model Woman (Vanity Fair adaptation), started at 5 feet 8, with a 32- to 33-inch bust, a 20- to 21-inch waist and 33-inch hips, because, as she explained, “photographic models must fit manufacturers’ samples.” The 34-24-34 figure is often cited for Ford models (Los Angeles Times, 2014). That’s the historical benchmark, not Nightlife Report’s standard.
Sources: Robert Lacey, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty (2015); the New York Times and AP obituaries (2014); The Telegraph; Vogue; Los Angeles Times. Her own books: Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty (1968), Secrets of the Model’s World (1970), Eileen Ford’s A More Beautiful You in 21 Days (1972) and Eileen Ford’s Beauty Now and Forever (1977).

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.

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Updated Oct 18: Emily Sophie Christine second, Kyla Dodds third (Krissy King).

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October 18, 2026

Sewreffic at Bureau LA Fashion Week: Among the Best Designs | Nightlife Report

Nightlife Report PickBureau LA Fashion Week · Oct. 2026

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.

A Sewreffic look: orange, olive and black print dress with bell sleeves and a wide black belt — Sewreffic, “The Opening,” Fri. Oct. 16. Photo: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

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.

Emily walks for Sewreffic at the Bureau LA Fashion Week Opening — Emily for Sewreffic. Photo: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

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.

Another Sewreffic look on the Bureau LA Fashion Week runway — Sewreffic, Fri. Oct. 16. Photo: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

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.

The Ford standard, as Eileen Otte Ford laid it out: the “tall, thin, often blond” Ford woman with “wide-set eyes and a long neck” (AP), and the blue-eyed Nordic look Vogue credits her with popularizing in the early 1960s (“They work hard, and they look more American than American girls,” she said of Swedish models). Anyone under 5 feet 7 was told to forget it: “If you’re short you’re not going to model. That’s it” (The Telegraph). The high-fashion bracket, as Robert Lacey records it in Model Woman (Vanity Fair adaptation), started at 5 feet 8, with a 32- to 33-inch bust, a 20- to 21-inch waist and 33-inch hips, because, as she explained, “photographic models must fit manufacturers’ samples.” The 34-24-34 figure is often cited for Ford models (Los Angeles Times, 2014). That’s the historical benchmark, not Nightlife Report’s standard.
Sources: Robert Lacey, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty (2015); the New York Times and AP obituaries (2014); The Telegraph; Vogue; Los Angeles Times. Her own books: Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty (1968), Secrets of the Model’s World (1970), Eileen Ford’s A More Beautiful You in 21 Days (1972) and Eileen Ford’s Beauty Now and Forever (1977).

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.

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October 18, 2026

Saint Fortuna at Bureau LA Fashion Week: Beverly Hills Couture | Nightlife Report

Designer FeatureBureau LA Fashion Week · Oct. 2026

A green monogram, a wide leg and a Beverly Hills address. Saint Fortuna brought made-to-measure attitude to the Opening.

By Anthony Perlas, Correspondent, Nightlife Report
nightlifereport.app · Instagram: @perlasunum · @lillithmagic
Oct. 17, 2026 · Follow: @stfortunaexclusives

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — When “ST. FORTUNA” came up on the LED wall at The Lot Studios on Friday, Oct. 16, the look that followed did the talking: an oversized white open-knit top stamped with a big green “SF” monogram, green wide-leg trousers with a white side stripe and green-tinted sunglasses to match. It was part of “The Opening,” the 6 p.m. show of the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week.

A Saint Fortuna look on the Bureau LA Fashion Week runway: white open-knit top with a green SF monogram and green wide-leg trousers — Saint Fortuna, “The Opening,” Fri. Oct. 16, The Lot Studios. Photo: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

Read of the look

Through our Ford lens, this is a camera look. The monogram reads from the back of the room and in a still frame, and the color story is one idea carried head to toe: white and green, top, trouser, stripe and lens. It is the kind of discipline Eileen Otte Ford asked of models, applied to styling. Model credit for this look is still being confirmed.

Green sleeveless hoodie with matching green wide-leg trousers, Saint Fortuna at The Bureau Fashion Week LA, The Opening — Green sleeveless hoodie with matching green wide-leg trousers. The Opening, Fri Oct 16, 2026, The Lot Studios, West Hollywood. Saint Fortuna for The Bureau Fashion Week · @thebureaufashionweek · 📷 Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

Who is Saint Fortuna?

Public business listings describe St Fortuna Beverly Hills Couture, operating as Saint Fortuna Exclusives, as “a custom made to measure studio located in the Beverly Hills area,” making red-carpet dresses, wedding gowns, prom dresses and suits. The listings give a studio address on South Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills and a founding year of 2023. (CitySquares; iBegin)

The listing’s own pitch is about the client moment: creating “that wow! feeling” for “that next Red carpet event, your most anticipated fairy tale like wedding, or that fabulous prom dress.” (CitySquares) The runway look we shot leans sportier than that list, which makes it one of the more interesting pivots on the Opening bill. We have not confirmed the designer’s name as credited by the Bureau, or whether the label has a website; we found none.

On the bill

The Bureau’s schedule lists Saint Fortuna in “The Opening” alongside Susan Kim, Dimez, Deborah Beaumont Designs, Krown Kink, X-X Co. and Sewreffic. (The Bureau Fashion Week schedule) In our Runway Points format, Saint Fortuna is on the board as a featured team, not yet ranked. Scorecards are coming.

Ivory poncho with a gold medallion print, Saint Fortuna at The Bureau Fashion Week LA, The Opening — Ivory poncho with a gold medallion print. The Opening, Fri Oct 16, 2026, The Lot Studios, West Hollywood. Saint Fortuna for The Bureau Fashion Week · @thebureaufashionweek · 📷 Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

Nightlife Report picks are editorial opinion by our correspondent. They are not official results of The Bureau Fashion Week, which announced no winners.

Saint Fortuna: want to add the designer credit, collection name or model names? Contact Nightlife Report and we’ll update this story.

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The designer: @stfortunaexclusives

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.

The Ford standard, as Ford laid it out: the “tall, thin, often blond” Ford woman with “wide-set eyes and a long neck” (AP), and the blue-eyed Nordic look Vogue credits her with popularizing in the early 1960s (“They work hard, and they look more American than American girls,” she said of Swedish models). Anyone under 5 feet 7 was told to forget it: “If you’re short you’re not going to model. That’s it” (The Telegraph). The high-fashion bracket, as Robert Lacey records it in Model Woman (Vanity Fair adaptation), started at 5 feet 8, with a 32- to 33-inch bust, a 20- to 21-inch waist and 33-inch hips, because, as she explained, “photographic models must fit manufacturers’ samples.” The 34-24-34 figure is often cited for Ford models (Los Angeles Times, 2014). That’s the historical benchmark, not Nightlife Report’s standard.
Sources: Robert Lacey, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty (2015); the New York Times and AP obituaries (2014); The Telegraph; Vogue; Los Angeles Times. Her own books: Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty (1968), Secrets of the Model’s World (1970), Eileen Ford’s A More Beautiful You in 21 Days (1972) and Eileen Ford’s Beauty Now and Forever (1977).

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.

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October 18, 2026

Deborah Beaumont Designs: Best Modeling Team at Bureau LAFW | Nightlife Report

Nightlife Report PickBureau LA Fashion Week · Oct. 2026

Our team title for the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week Opening goes to the Idaho label that sent out the deepest lineup of the night.

By Anthony Perlas, Correspondent, Nightlife Report
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Oct. 17, 2026 · Follow: deborahbeaumont.com · Facebook: Deborah Beaumont Designs

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Some designers bring one look everybody talks about. Deborah Beaumont Designs brought a whole team. On Friday, Oct. 16, at The Lot Studios, the label walked in “The Opening,” the 6 p.m. show of the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week, and it is Nightlife Report’s pick for Best Overall Modeling Team.

Nightlife Report picks are editorial opinion by our correspondent. They are not official results of The Bureau Fashion Week, which announced no winners.

Why a team title

A star walk can carry a segment. A team title asks something harder: does every model, in every look, hold the standard from the first step to the last turn? Our correspondent measures the runway against a Ford Models standard, the bar Eileen Otte Ford set for professionalism, poise and presence, without the body rules. By that measure, and in our view, the Deborah Beaumont Designs walk was the strongest overall lineup on the Opening bill.

White halter crop top with white wide-leg trousers, Deborah Beaumont Designs at The Bureau Fashion Week LA, The Opening — White halter crop top with white wide-leg trousers. The Opening, Fri Oct 16, 2026, The Lot Studios, West Hollywood. Deborah Beaumont Designs for The Bureau Fashion Week · @thebureaufashionweek · 📷 Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

In our Runway Points format (borrowed from college wrestling), designers are teams and each look is a bout. A lineup that wins bout after bout with no weak link takes the dual meet. That is the case for Deborah Beaumont Designs. Full scorecards are coming; the title is our call now.

Who is Deborah Beaumont?

Deborah Beaumont is the designer and owner behind the label. The brand’s own site says the business started in 2004 “with Holiday and whimsical vests” before the designs “quickly grew into dresses.” (Deborah Beaumont Boutique, About Us)

The work centers on formal, wedding and resort wear, according to the designer’s professional profile. The site describes a collection shown at New York Fashion Week as “a show-stopping display of iridescent white sparkle, dripping with rhinestone fringe.” (deborahbeaumont.com) We have not confirmed which NYFW season or producer that was.

The label is based in Pocatello, Idaho. A columnist bio in the Idaho State Journal says Beaumont teaches modeling and fashion design through Idaho State University’s workforce training, has hosted a fashion segment on the Channel 6 morning news and has chaired the Zonta spring fashion show. (Idaho State Journal) The site also calls the designer “Ms. Senior Idaho.”

Hot pink gown with orange shapes and a sheer layered hem, Deborah Beaumont Designs at The Bureau Fashion Week LA, The Opening — Hot pink gown with orange shapes and a sheer layered hem. The Opening, Fri Oct 16, 2026, The Lot Studios, West Hollywood. Deborah Beaumont Designs for The Bureau Fashion Week · @thebureaufashionweek · 📷 Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report

The Opening bill

The Bureau’s schedule lists seven designers for “The Opening”: Susan Kim, Dimez, Deborah Beaumont Designs, Krown Kink, X-X Co., Sewreffic and Saint Fortuna. (The Bureau Fashion Week schedule) Running order and model-by-look credits for the Deborah Beaumont Designs segment are still being confirmed. If you walked, send us your name and we’ll credit you.

The Nightlife Report Awards, Opening Night

Award (Nightlife Report pick)	Winner
Model of the Event	Ava Kortman (@avakortman) (walked for Krown Kink)
Model of the Year	Ava
Runner-up	Emily Sophie Christine
Third place	Kyla Dodds
Best Overall Modeling Team	Deborah Beaumont Designs

Nightlife Report picks are editorial opinion by our correspondent. They are not official results of The Bureau Fashion Week, which announced no winners.

Follow the coverage.
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Instagram: @perlasunum and @lillithmagic
The designer: deborahbeaumont.com · Facebook: Deborah Beaumont Designs

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.

The Ford standard, as Ford laid it out: the “tall, thin, often blond” Ford woman with “wide-set eyes and a long neck” (AP), and the blue-eyed Nordic look Vogue credits her with popularizing in the early 1960s (“They work hard, and they look more American than American girls,” she said of Swedish models). Anyone under 5 feet 7 was told to forget it: “If you’re short you’re not going to model. That’s it” (The Telegraph). The high-fashion bracket, as Robert Lacey records it in Model Woman (Vanity Fair adaptation), started at 5 feet 8, with a 32- to 33-inch bust, a 20- to 21-inch waist and 33-inch hips, because, as she explained, “photographic models must fit manufacturers’ samples.” The 34-24-34 figure is often cited for Ford models (Los Angeles Times, 2014). That’s the historical benchmark, not Nightlife Report’s standard.
Sources: Robert Lacey, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty (2015); the New York Times and AP obituaries (2014); The Telegraph; Vogue; Los Angeles Times. Her own books: Eileen Ford’s Book of Model Beauty (1968), Secrets of the Model’s World (1970), Eileen Ford’s A More Beautiful You in 21 Days (1972) and Eileen Ford’s Beauty Now and Forever (1977).

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

Updated Oct 18: Emily Sophie Christine second, Kyla Dodds third (Krissy King).

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October 18, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Krown Kink with Casey Lee Parker

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On camera at the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week with the designer behind the label Ava Kortman (@avakortman) walked on Opening Night.

By Anthony Perlas, Correspondent, Nightlife Report
Published Oct. 17, 2026

Casey Lee Parker of Krown Kink on camera with Nightlife Report — Casey Lee Parker, the designer behind Krown Kink, talks to Nightlife Report on Friday night at the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week. Frame from Nightlife Report video.

LOS ANGELES (Nightlife Report) — The first words on our tape aren’t a question. They’re a verdict.

I open the clip with my verdict on the Krown Kink collection: the strongest entry, with the best model in the entire show. The clip was recorded Friday night at the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week at The Lot Studios in West Hollywood.

The clothes belong to Casey Lee Parker (@caseyleeparker1), the designer behind KROWN KINK (@krownkink). The label’s Instagram bio calls it a “Luxury Fashion House designed by Casey Lee Parker.” The model is Ava, who walked for Krown Kink in Friday’s 6 p.m. Opening show. She’s the model Nightlife Report has now named its Model of the Event and its Model of the Year.

On the record

The interview is short: 44 seconds, shot on the floor of the venue. The first thing I asked Casey Lee Parker:

“Tell us about yourself and your designs.”

Parker talks for about 20 seconds. Most of the answer is lost under the noise of the room on our recording, and we won’t print words we can’t confirm on tape. Watch the clip and hear it for yourself. We’ll add the answer word for word once we’ve checked it against a clean audio pass.

Then the forward-looking question, the one everybody on the floor wanted answered:

“Amazing, amazing. And so what’s next for you? Are you at the 8:30 show, or…”

Anthony Perlas to Casey Lee Parker, Friday night

Watch the interview

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Casey Lee Parker of Krown Kink with Nightlife Report

A YouTube version will go up on @thevoden. We’ll embed it here when it’s live.

Casey Lee Parker mid-answer — Parker answers our questions in the venue, with the crowd in the background. Frame from Nightlife Report video.

The look: Ava in Krown Kink

Ava in Krown Kink, front — Ava in Krown Kink at “The Opening,” Friday, Oct. 16. Photo: Nightlife Report

Ava in Krown Kink, back — The back of the Krown Kink look. Photo: Nightlife Report

Key takeaways

Who: Casey Lee Parker, designer of KROWN KINK (@krownkink).
The model: Ava walked for Krown Kink in “The Opening,” the Bureau’s 6 p.m. show on Friday, Oct. 16.
The tape: a 44-second on-site interview recorded Friday night. Quotes in this story are taken word for word from the recording.
Our call: Nightlife Report names Ava its Model of the Event and Model of the Year. That’s our editorial pick, not an official Bureau result.
Next: Day 2 runs Saturday, Oct. 17, with shows at 2:30, 5:30 and 8:30 p.m.

The Nightlife Report AwardsOur picks

Model of the EventAva (walked for Krown Kink)

Nightlife Report Model of the YearAva

Nightlife Report Runner-upEmily Sophie Christine

Third PlaceKyla Dodds (walked for Krissy King)

Best Overall Modeling TeamDeborah Beaumont Designs

Editorial picks by Nightlife Report. These are our opinion, not official Bureau results. The Bureau announced no winners.

Day 2 drops tonight

Day 2 drops tonight, and the runway gets new designs. Three shows are on the Saturday bill at 2:30, 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Friday ended with our editorial Model of the Year pick; the Bureau named no winners. What Saturday brings is anyone’s guess, and we’ll be in the pit when it happens.

Don’t miss it.
Subscribe at blog.nightlifereport.app and follow along live on Instagram: @perlasunum and @lillithmagic. Follow the designer at @caseyleeparker1 and the label at @krownkink.

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Transcript note: quotes come from a machine transcript checked against the recording. Speaker attribution comes from the video. To flag a correction, contact Nightlife Report.

Correction (Oct. 17, 2026): An earlier version of this story named Sophie as runner-up in the Nightlife Report Awards. The Nightlife Report runner-up pick is Emily. These are Nightlife Report editorial picks, not official Bureau results.

Updated Oct 18: Emily Sophie Christine second, Kyla Dodds third (Krissy King).

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October 17, 2026

Nightlife Report Top News: Bureau LAFW

The Opening, Friday 6 p.m., at the Bureau's LA Fashion Week. Photo: Nightlife Report

The top stories from the Bureau's LA Fashion Week so far, ranked, plus an archivist's timeline of the Bureau in Los Angeles.

The stories that mattered from Day 1 of the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week, ranked, and the record behind them.

By Anthony Perlas · Nightlife Report · Updated Oct. 17, 2026

The archive: the Bureau in Los Angeles

Who runs it. The Bureau Fashion Week is led by co-founders Brady King (Co-Founder & President) and Krissy King (Co-Founder), according to the Bureau’s press kit. The company produces runway showcases in New York, Paris and Los Angeles. Christina Weeks, the Bureau’s Talent and Production Manager, handled press and media information for this LA season. Press inquiries go to info@thebureaufashionweek.com.

Timeline

2016. The Bureau says it has operated since 2016 (Bureau Paris application page). It was previously known as The Society Fashion Week, LA Weekly reported in July 2026.
October 2025. LA season at The Lot in West Hollywood (Oct. 17–19 on the Bureau’s models page).
March 13–14, 2026. LA season at The Lot: five shows, with headliners including Deep Pocket Mafia, Shock Treatment, Blank Studi0s and Dammchicbyfb (Bureau schedule).
October 2–3, 2026. Paris Fashion Week at Espace Cléry (press fact sheet).
October 16–18, 2026. LA Fashion Week at The Lot Studios, 1041 N Formosa Ave, West Hollywood. Five runway shows across Friday and Saturday (schedule). The Bureau’s release says the season has “more than 40 designers.”
Next. New York Fashion Week, Feb. 11–14, 2027, at Gotham Hall, then Paris, March 5–7, 2027 (press fact sheet).

The venue. The Lot Studios is a working Hollywood production lot on Formosa Avenue. The Bureau stages its LA shows on a soundstage with a runway down the middle and a media pit at the end.

The Opening, Friday 6 p.m. Susan Kim, Dimez, Deborah Beaumont Designs, Krown Kink, X-X Co., Sewreffic and Saint Fortuna.

Sources: The Bureau Fashion Week press kit (leadership, fact sheet, LA release), the Bureau’s LAFW schedule page, LA Weekly (July 9, 2026), and Nightlife Report’s own reporting. Attendance and press-coverage figures in Bureau materials are the company’s own claims.

Saint Fortuna, Friday. Photo: Nightlife Report

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October 17, 2026

Ava Kortman vs Emily: The Colosseum of Day 1

Emily Sophie Christine walks for Sewreffic at the Bureau's LA Fashion Week, Friday. Photo: Nightlife Report

Two names, one runway, five rounds. A caster's breakdown of Ava Kortman (@avakortman) and Emily Sophie Christine at the Bureau's LA Fashion Week Day 1, with the scorecard left open for your vote.

Five rounds, one runway, and a verdict we’re leaving to you.

By Anthony Perlas · Nightlife Report · Oct. 17, 2026

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Welcome back to the arena, folks. The map is a soundstage at The Lot Studios, and the patch is the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week, October 2026. Two names have come out of Day 1 on everyone’s lips in our corner of the media pit: Ava and Emily Sophie Christine.

This isn’t a fight between two people. Both walked, both worked, and both made the Opening worth the price of a ticket. The Colosseum is a format, the way a caster frames a best-of-five. We break the night into rounds, check the archive, and say plainly what’s on the tape and what isn’t. Then you call the winner.

The draft: who picked what

Emily Sophie Christine (@emilysophiechristine) drafted into Sewreffic (@sewreffic) for Friday’s 6 p.m. show, “The Opening.” Our camera has her in a black top and a gold-and-navy dot-print maxi skirt under the runway lights. The Sewreffic name was on the LED wall behind her.

Ava drafted into Krown Kink (@krownkink), the luxury label of designer Casey Lee Parker (@caseyleeparker1), on the same Opening bill. Her look: a black lace bra top, red satin wide-leg trousers and a black waistband, with the KK crown logo on the LED wall behind her. She’s also the player we already crowned: Nightlife Report named Ava model of the night in our Day 1 model-first ranking, and we wrote up why in Ava steals the show.

So the casters’ bracket looks like this:

Blue side: Ava. Defending model of the night. Krown Kink, by Casey Lee Parker.
Red side: Emily Sophie Christine. Sewreffic. On camera in our archive.

Ava walks for Krown Kink at the Bureau's LA Fashion Week Opening, Friday, in a black lace bra top and red satin wide-leg trousers — Ava walks for Krown Kink in “The Opening,” Friday, Oct. 16. Photo: Nightlife Report

I always said it was an X factor.
Eileen Otte Ford to The Times of London, 2012

Round 1: The entrance

This is the laning phase. A model has the first three seconds at the top of the runway to set the tempo. The lights hit, the music sets the pace, and the room decides whether to look up from its phones.

From the archive:

The Opening started at about 6:30 p.m. by our photographer’s watch. The Bureau hasn’t confirmed the time.
The pit was packed and the lights stayed on the walk.
The Sewreffic segment ran in front of a moving amber-and-gold flame visual on the LED wall.
The Krown Kink segment ran under the KK crown logo over a night-city visual.

Caster’s read: Both sides now have frames, but stills don’t show the first three seconds. This round stays open.

Round 2: The walk

Now we’re into the micro game: pace, line and the turn. In StarCraft terms, this is APM you can see. Every step is an input, and the clean ones don’t look like effort.

From the archive:

We have Emily on the walk from the front and on the return. That’s four frames in the Sewreffic set (P1000704, P1000706, P1000711, P1000713).
We now have Ava on the walk from the front and on the return for Krown Kink, plus a crowd-view frame: three frames.

Caster’s read: Open. Both sides have tape now, but stills don’t show pace or the turn. We won’t score this round off still frames.

Emily Sophie Christine on the return, Sewreffic. Photo: Nightlife Report

Ava on the return for Krown Kink, the KK crown mark on the LED wall. Photo: Nightlife Report. This view and the one from the seats further down were taken from her live feed on Instagram.

Round 3: Presence

This is the macro game, and the one Ford couldn’t put into words. “I always said it was an X factor,” the Ford Models co-founder told The Times of London in 2012. Presence is map control: who owns the room without asking for it.

From the archive: This is the one round where we’ve already made a public call. We named Ava model of the night.

Caster’s read: Edge to Ava, on our published call. That’s our editorial view from the pit, not an official Bureau result.

Round 4: The crowd

Crowd is the hype meter, the roar when the team fight breaks open.

From the archive: We didn’t measure crowd reaction model by model, and the Bureau announced no winners.

Caster’s read: Open. If you were in the seats, you’re the replay. Tell us.

Sewreffic, Friday. Photo: Nightlife Report

Round 5: The camera

Ford built an agency on photographs. “The camera lens was ruthless, and so was Eileen,” The Guardian wrote. This round is about who reads in a still frame, the shot a magazine would actually run.

From the archive:

Emily is the lead image in our Day 1 coverage.
Ava’s Krown Kink frames are now in: the red satin trousers against the dark runway and the KK crown on the wall read cleanly at full length.
The Sewreffic look reads cleanly at full length: black top, gold-and-navy print, flame wall behind.

Caster’s read: Even. We first gave this round to Emily because hers were the only frames we had. Ava’s frames landed, so we re-opened it as promised. Both looks read in a still, and we’re calling it a tie.

From the seats: Ava for Krown Kink, the KK crown logo on the screen behind her. Photo: Nightlife Report

The scorecard

Round	What it tests	Ava	Emily Sophie Christine	Our call	Your vote
1. Entrance	First three seconds, tempo	Frames on file (Krown Kink)	On file (Sewreffic)	Open	☐ Ava ☐ Emily
2. Walk	Pace, line, the turn	3 frames on file	4 frames on file	Open	☐ Ava ☐ Emily
3. Presence	The X factor	Our model of the night	Featured in our models piece	Ava	☐ Ava ☐ Emily
4. Crowd	Room reaction	Not measured	Not measured	Open	☐ Ava ☐ Emily
5. Camera	Reads in a still	Krown Kink frames on file	Our lead image	Even	☐ Ava ☐ Emily

Series so far: Ava leads 1–0, Camera even, three rounds open.

The verdict: yours

The casters stop here. Ava has Presence, Camera is a tie, three rounds are still undecided, and no official Bureau result to settle it. Cast your vote in the comments, or reply to our Instagram post: Ava or Emily, round by round. We’ll publish the reader tally with the Saturday coverage.

What we leave out: we don’t judge anyone’s body. This is about runway craft (entrance, walk, presence and the camera), and nothing else.

Archive notes

The Opening bill (Bureau schedule): Susan Kim, Dimez, Deborah Beaumont Designs, Krown Kink, X-X Co., Sewreffic and Saint Fortuna. Ava walked Krown Kink; Emily walked Sewreffic.
Related: Emily and the other models worth knowing · Designer spotlight: Sewreffic · Day 1 coverage ranking · Day 1 live stream.
If you walked Friday’s 6 p.m. show, send us your name and we’ll credit you.

Photography: Anthony Perlas / Nightlife Report. Event: The Bureau Fashion Week Los Angeles. Rankings and round calls are Nightlife Report’s editorial opinion, not official results.

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October 17, 2026

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The receipts: what’s actually on the record

The blanks we won’t fill in

The scouting report (Nightlife Report analysis)

More from the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week

How Runway Points works

The Day 1 bout: Ava vs Emily

Individual bracket (editorial, final placings)

Team race: the dual-meet board

Around the mat

Day 2: the board is open

Further reading: the Ford lens

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The looks

Our second-place pick

Who is Sewreffic?

The Nightlife Report Awards, Opening Night

Further reading: the Ford lens

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Read of the look

Who is Saint Fortuna?

On the bill

Further reading: the Ford lens

More from the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week

Why a team title

Who is Deborah Beaumont?

The Opening bill

The Nightlife Report Awards, Opening Night

Further reading: the Ford lens

More from the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week

On the record

Watch the interview

The look: Ava in Krown Kink

Day 2 drops tonight

More from the Bureau’s LA Fashion Week

Top stories, ranked

The archive: the Bureau in Los Angeles

The draft: who picked what

Round 1: The entrance

Round 2: The walk

Round 3: Presence

Round 4: The crowd

Round 5: The camera

The scorecard

The verdict: yours

Archive notes