Family Office

Grace Na learned the ins and outs of the denim industry from her in-laws. Now, they're two of her top team members for her own brand, Pistola.

- Rebecca Deczynski

The most stressful part of Pistola founder Grace Na's day isn't what you'd expect for the founder of a denim company with 40 employees and a factory right in Los Angeles. It's placing a lunch order for her head of tech and pattern and her head financier. They are, after all, her in-lawsand the reason she launched her L.A.-based denim brand in 2013. When Grace married her husband, Kevin, she joined the family business, a white-label denim company called Eunina, that Esther and Yoon Na had launched in 1989, 10 years after immigrating to the U.S. from South Korea. But Grace dreamed of starting a brand of her own. So, she inc