L’Officiel: How Brady and Krissy King Built The Bureau Fashion Week as a Family Business

In the PressL’OfficielBy Kinsley AhchionAugust 2026

Before the runways, there was a trigonometry class. L’Officiel traces The Bureau Fashion Week back to the college course where Brady and Krissy King first met.

In “From Trigonometry to the Runway,” the magazine follows the couple from that classroom to co-founding a company that stages fashion weeks in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris — with a mission to open fashion week to the people it historically excluded.

Brady and Krissy King with their three children on the beach
Brady and Krissy King with their three children · Photo courtesy of L’Officiel

01From Trigonometry to the Runway

The origin is unglamorous by design: two students, a shared class, and years of building before any of it looked like an industry force. The honesty about the cost is what gives the profile its weight.

There were plenty of tears, sleepless nights, setbacks, disappointments, and prayers.

Krissy King — in L’Officiel

02A Division of Labor

L’Officiel maps the partnership precisely. Brady runs technology, marketing, and strategy — the systems that sell the tickets and scale the seasons. Krissy runs operations, designer relations, casting, and guest experience — everything a guest actually touches. The company works because the seam between them barely shows.

03Raising Kids on the Runway

Then there’s the third dimension: family. The Kings are raising three children inside the business — their eldest walked a runway at 18 months. The piece frames The Bureau not as a company the family runs, but as something closer to a family the company grew around.

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