Brittany Hampton is blasting Olivia Dean as she scurries by means of her house, impeccably adorned with artwork deco furnishings sourced from Fb Market. Monographs from esteemed Black artists cowl her espresso desk; tons of of classic Vogue magazines line the wall. Suffering from luxurious candles, the house smells pretty much as good as her.
The Filipina-American stylist has come off a jam-packed yr. Final Could, she was named a member of the Golden State Valkyries Collective and creative-directed the staff’s inaugural trend present, celebrating the intersection of sports activities and trend. In October, she headlined a panel on sports activities and trend on the espnW: Girls + Sports activities Summit in Ojai. She has been an lively a part of crafting Sloane Stephens’ picture forward of her return to professional tennis. Her shopper Nika Mühl, some extent guard for the Seattle Storm, was just lately named greatest–dressed rookie by GQ. And Paige Bueckers, whom Hampton calls her “good luck Chuck,” was just lately named WNBA Rookie of the Yr.
When the pair first met, for a InventoryX shoot in 2022, Bueckers was a NCAA participant, edgy and funky but with little trend information, stated Hampton. Two years later, Bueckers wore an internet-uproaring all-white Louis Vuitton swimsuit to the 2024 draft. Hampton additionally styled Buecker’s personal skilled debut in 2025, when she was drafted No. 1 to the Dallas Wings.
Brittany Hampton wears an SRG by Sofia Richie Grainge high, Maison Margiela trousers and Amina Muaddi pumps.
Buecker’s transition, below Hampton’s steering, from sneakers to designer loafers (she favors androgynous appears) mirrors the business itself. With a $200 million battle for the following WNBA enlargement groups (Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia have been finally rewarded contracts), ladies’s basketball has definitely come a good distance because the monetary instability of the early 2000s. However nobody was searching for the younger feminine athletes — restricted from the sturdy contracts of their male counterparts — who lacked the funds to match their wardrobes to their playmaking.
“That was a area that I really feel like nobody was prepared to the touch,” says Hampton, who initially made the transition to dressing and designing for athletes by means of her work with Russell Westbrook’s model Honor the Present.
Brittany Hampton wears an Arthur high and Aligrace denims.
This penchant for mentorship has been a lifelong by means of line for Hampton, who herself was nurtured in trend by her maternal grandmother — her Apo — who ran a corporation referred to as Style Arts & Youth Enterprise that taught younger women the right way to sew. Working retail as a young person, Hampton discovered any excuse, and any type of transportation, to make her approach right down to Los Angeles — her closest geographical in to the style business. On commencement day from the Style Institute of Design & Merchandising in San Francisco, she and her mother and father drove right down to Koreatown, Hampton’s first neighborhood in L.A., with a mattress strapped to the automotive. After two years, her laborious work paid off: As a 23-year-old, Hampton was tapped to steer in-house styling internationally for Nickelodeon.
“Constructing out characters was the principle factor that I did at Nickelodeon,” she says. “Understanding that Sam and Cat, the characters, additionally needed to play Sam and Cat on the crimson carpet, and Sam and Cat in any look that they made.” And the place Nick executives initially wished Miranda Cosgrove et al. in runway appears, Hampton understood her viewers and as an alternative went procuring at Macy’s, Previous Navy, Nautica and Nike.
For Hampton, styling younger feminine athletes shouldn’t be so completely different from the cost of styling younger Hollywood. “We’re curating the trajectory of who these ladies are about to develop into,” says Hampton, who refers to her celebrity-athlete shoppers as “children” regardless of being solely 36 herself.
However for all of the encouragement she provides her “children,” entering into her personal energy, she says, has been “laborious, f— laborious.”
Brittany Hampton wears a RC Caylan trench coat and Gianvito Rossi pumps.
“Developing on this business, stylists have been very behind the scenes,” she explains. “They weren’t the picture curators, they weren’t [at the forefront].” That has modified lately, due in no small half to Legislation Roach, famously Zendaya’s stylist, whom Hampton assisted instantly after leaving Nickelodeon. However comfortability within the public eye remains to be an ongoing journey for the stylist, whilst she understands the necessity for designers and types to know who she is, so as to know who her shoppers are.
In the event you have been to catch the stylist off-duty she would almost certainly be sporting athleisure. As she will get older, consolation has develop into key, she says. However when she places it on — and she will be able to put it on — she all the time considers her grandmother’s trend huge three: high quality, coloration and style.
“Issues that you just would possibly assume, ‘Oh I’m solely gonna put on that one time’ — that’s what you seize,” she says of her “eclectic” fashion. “Generally I could be this femme fatale, typically I could be tremendous sporty, typically I can pop as much as Paige on set and be tremendous goth and he or she’s like ‘What are you carrying?’ and I’m similar to, ‘Oh, please.’”
Picture requested Hampton to share 5 assertion items that belong in each lady’s wardrobe. Listed below are the stylist’s beginning 5.
Hair Stacey Booker
Make-up Darien Isaac
