Exclusive Interview · Venus Games First Runner-Up
Model and actor Emily Sophie Christine walked The Bureau’s LA Fashion Week for Sewreffic and Hey Sis! I Got You!, and finished first runner-up at the Venus Games. She tells Nightlife Report about growing up as the outsider, why modeling gave her her truest friendships, and a next chapter that includes law.
By Anthony Perlas. Wed Oct 21, 2026. Interview by written questionnaire; her answers are quoted as submitted. Photos of Christine courtesy of Emily Sophie Christine.
The Bureau Fashion Week LA · Oct. 16–17, 2026
Venus Games Results
Nightlife Report Venus Games scoring; The Bureau announced no official winners.
First Runner-Up
Emily Sophie Christine
12 pts
Photo courtesy of Emily Sophie Christine
Points are placement points from our published board: Final Results: Bureau LAFW Oct 2026. Ava Kortman walked for Krown Kink by Casey Lee Parker, Christine for Sewreffic, and Kyla Dodds for Krissy King (her Finale story). How the scoring works: the Venus Games rules.
Same city, same weekend. Sunday night, Oct. 18, the fashion internet turned toward Culver City, where Victoria’s Secret staged its show (Vogue). Two nights earlier and a few miles north, the lights at The Lot Studios had come up on The Bureau Fashion Week’s Opening, and Christine walked Look 11 for Sewreffic. By the time our board locked on Saturday night, she was first runner-up. One runway got the headlines. This is the story of the other one, in her words.
Also from the Bureau: Sophie Rann, who walked for Krissy King, in her own words →
LOS ANGELES — In the frame she sent us, fashion week is a blur behind her. A photographer is mid-shot, a crew member is crossing with a bag, and a yellow handrail cuts through the background. Emily Sophie Christine is the only still thing in the picture. She stands in a pink stripe robe tied at the waist, both hands set on her hips, platinum waves over one shoulder, her eyes fixed on something just past the lens. She isn’t asking the camera for anything. She’s letting it catch up.
That stillness is the first thing you notice about her work, and the questionnaire she returned to Nightlife Report explains where it comes from. Christine (@emilysophiechristine), a model and actor, walked The Bureau Fashion Week’s October season of Los Angeles Fashion Week. Asked to describe herself in two sentences she’d want quoted, she skipped the résumé and reached for a monument:
“I see myself as an ancient Egyptian pyramid: something people are drawn to admire from the outside, yet few ever truly understand what lies within. Like these monuments that have stood for thousands of years through the harshest elements of time, I carry a depth of history, resilience, and untold stories beneath my surface and somehow, I continue to stand as though the storms never came.”
— Emily Sophie Christine, in a Nightlife Report questionnaire
The outsider’s language
The best model interviews find the feeling under the career. For Christine, there was no single moment when she was discovered. She describes something slower and harder:
“I don’t think there was ever one particular moment that made me choose this path; I think it was a lifetime of feeling like the outsider in every room I entered. I spent so much of my life searching for a place where I belonged that eventually, I began creating one through the very thing that made me feel different. Modeling and acting became more than a career to me; they became a language for everything I never knew how to say, a way to give a face to the parts of myself the world had never taken the time to understand. Perhaps I was never meant to fit into a frame someone else had created for me. Perhaps I was meant to stand in front of the camera and tell stories that remind other people what it feels like to be misunderstood, to be different, and still to be worthy of being seen.”
— Emily Sophie Christine
Read that again with the photographs in mind. “A language for everything I never knew how to say” is as good a description of runway craft as you’ll find. The walk, the set of the jaw and the held gaze are the vocabulary. The story is hers.
Three moments, one weekend
The Bureau Fashion Week produces Los Angeles Fashion Week twice a year, in March and October. This October it ran five runway shows across Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16–17, in West Hollywood, with designers from around the world on the bill (official schedule). Christine’s weekend touched three corners of it:
- Friday, The Opening: she walked for Sewreffic, as covered in our Sewreffic looks and credits.
- Saturday evening: she walked Hey Sis! I Got You!, part of the 5:30 PM show on the Bureau schedule. On her Instagram, her HSIGY carousel tags @officialheysisigotyou, @thebureaufashionweek and @lafw. It credits hair to @stylezzby_risss, makeup to @soleabydarlyn and shots to @adamlupix.
- Backstage: on her Instagram, a video she titled “Backstage Shenanigans at LAFW” tags @thebureaufashionweek and @krissykingthelabel, with makeup again by @soleabydarlyn and video by @hellogorgeous.yh.
The Hey Sis! I Got You! frame is the one to study. It’s shot in black and white with the brand’s rose glowing on the LED wall behind her. Christine comes down the runway in a liquid metallic slip and a sheer duster that trails behind her. Her chin is level, her eyes are locked down the runway, and her hands are loose. The front row lines both sides of the runway, and she doesn’t look at any of it.
On camera: the gaze
Put her backstage frames side by side and you see the range. In one, she’s squared to the lens with her hands on her hips and her gaze cool and off-axis: the face she brings to the runway. In another, in the same robe against the same concrete wall, she’s caught mid-laugh, eyes creased, the composure gone for a second. In a third, behind the scenes, she stands dead center in a pair of pink and yellow feathered wings almost as wide as the frame. The room is moving around her, and she doesn’t move at all.
That is the craft she’s describing: giving a face to something inside. The great runway models have long talked about the walk as a kind of acting. Christine does both for real, and it shows. The look is a performance, but the person behind it is never hidden for long.
Away from the runway
Asked for her Bureau Fashion Week moment, on or off the runway, Christine picked the part no camera caught:
“Some of my favorite moments happened away from the runway, particularly the unexpected connection made over dinner in Los Angeles … I think there is something beautiful about meeting someone as a stranger and discovering, over a conversation, that there is an entire world behind the person sitting across from you. In an industry where so much is carefully curated, I find the unplanned moments the most revealing.”
— Emily Sophie Christine
What people get wrong
This is the answer that should travel. Asked what people misunderstand about her or her industry, Christine took on the oldest stereotype in fashion:
“I think people often mistake an industry built around appearance for one built around vanity. Whenever I tell people I model and act, they assume it must be an emotionally draining environment filled with self-centered people, when my experience has often been the opposite. I’ve found that when you surround yourself with people who are comfortable in their own individuality, there is less of a need to diminish anyone else’s. My most genuine friendships have come from modeling, because there is something uniquely beautiful about being surrounded by people who each have the courage to be seen, yet can still appreciate that same light in someone else. I think people underestimate how much confidence can create community rather than competition.”
— Emily Sophie Christine
What’s next: law, film and the unexpected
Christine isn’t pretending to have a five-year plan, and she doesn’t want one:
“I don’t know exactly what I’m building next, and I think there is something liberating about that. I know I am pursuing law, continue working in film and modeling, and creating a life that reflects the full depth of who I am. Beyond that, I’m leaving room for the unexpected—for the places I’ll go, the people I’ll meet, and the kind of love that might find me when I’m busy becoming myself. I don’t need to know how the entire story ends because I know the director; He has it written, and I have to act it out.”
— Emily Sophie Christine
Law, film and modeling, all at once, and room left over for what she can’t predict. Hers is a bigger story than most fashion week profiles get to tell.
In her own words / coming next
Everything Christine says in this story comes from her written questionnaire, quoted as submitted. The dinner answer was trimmed only where marked (…). Details about her shows come from our own Sewreffic coverage, the Bureau’s published schedule and, where stated, her Instagram. We’d like to continue the conversation: about her walk and how she prepares, about where the film work is heading, and about what pursuing law looks like alongside the runway. Follow her at @emilysophiechristine.
Gallery
Photos courtesy of Emily Sophie Christine. Instagram post details are attributed to her Instagram, @emilysophiechristine.
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