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Brittany Hampton<\/a> is blasting Olivia Dean as she scurries through her apartment, impeccably decorated with art deco furniture sourced from Facebook Marketplace. Monographs from esteemed Black artists cover her coffee table; hundreds of vintage Vogue magazines line the wall. Littered with luxury candles, the apartment smells as good as her.<\/p>\n

The Filipina-American stylist has come off a jam-packed year. Last May, she was named a member of the Golden State Valkyries Collective<\/a> and creative-directed the team\u2019s inaugural fashion show<\/a>, celebrating the intersection of sports and fashion. In October, she headlined a panel on sports and fashion at the espnW: Women + Sports Summit in Ojai. She has been an active part of crafting Sloane Stephens\u2019 image ahead of her return to pro tennis. Her client Nika M\u00fchl, a point guard for the Seattle Storm, was recently named best-dressed rookie by GQ<\/a>. And Paige Bueckers, whom Hampton calls her \u201cgood luck Chuck,\u201d was recently named WNBA Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n

When the pair first met, for a StockX shoot<\/a> in 2022, Bueckers was a NCAA player, edgy and cool yet with little fashion knowledge, said Hampton. Two years later, Bueckers wore an internet-uproaring all-white Louis Vuitton suit<\/a> to the 2024 draft. Hampton also styled Buecker\u2019s own professional debut<\/a> in 2025, when she was drafted No. 1 to the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n

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Brittany Hampton wears an SRG by Sofia Richie Grainge top, Maison Margiela trousers and Amina Muaddi pumps.<\/p>\n

Buecker\u2019s transition, under Hampton\u2019s guidance, from sneakers to designer loafers (she favors androgynous looks) mirrors the industry itself. With a $200 million battle for the next WNBA expansion teams<\/a> (Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia were ultimately rewarded contracts<\/a>), women\u2019s basketball has certainly come a long way since the financial instability of the early 2000s. But no one was looking out for the young female athletes \u2014 limited from the robust contracts of their male counterparts \u2014 who lacked the funds to match their wardrobes to their playmaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a field that I feel like no one was willing to touch,\u201d says Hampton, who initially made the transition to dressing and designing for athletes through her work with Russell Westbrook\u2019s brand Honor the Gift<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brittany Hampton wears an Arthur top and Aligrace jeans.<\/p>\n

This penchant for mentorship has been a lifelong through line for Hampton, who herself was nurtured in fashion by her maternal grandmother \u2014 her Apo \u2014 who ran an organization called Fashion Arts & Youth Enterprise that taught young girls how to sew. Working retail as a teenager, Hampton found any excuse, and any form of transportation, to make her way down to Los Angeles \u2014 her closest geographical in to the fashion industry. On graduation day from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in San Francisco, she and her parents drove down to Koreatown, Hampton\u2019s first neighborhood in L.A., with a mattress strapped to the car. After two years, her hard work paid off: As a 23-year-old, Hampton was tapped to lead in-house styling internationally for Nickelodeon.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding out characters was the main thing that I did at Nickelodeon,\u201d she says. \u201cUnderstanding that Sam and Cat, the characters, also had to play Sam and Cat on the red carpet, and Sam and Cat in any appearance that they made.\u201d And where Nick executives initially wanted Miranda Cosgrove et al. in runway looks, Hampton understood her audience and instead went shopping at Macy\u2019s, Old Navy, Nautica and Nike. <\/p>\n

For Hampton, styling young female athletes is not so different from the charge of styling young Hollywood. \u201cWe are curating the trajectory of who these women are about to become,\u201d says Hampton, who refers to her celebrity-athlete clients as \u201ckids\u201d despite being only 36 herself.<\/p>\n

But for all the encouragement she offers her \u201ckids,\u201d stepping into her own power, she says, has been \u201chard, f\u2014 hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brittany Hampton wears a RC Caylan trench coat and Gianvito Rossi pumps.<\/p>\n

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\u201cComing up in this industry, stylists were very behind the scenes,\u201d she explains. \u201cThey weren\u2019t the image curators, they weren\u2019t [at the forefront].\u201d That has changed in recent years, due in no small part to Law Roach, famously Zendaya\u2019s stylist, whom Hampton assisted immediately after leaving Nickelodeon. But comfortability in the public eye is still an ongoing journey for the stylist, even as she understands the need for designers and brands to know who she is, in order to know who her clients are.<\/p>\n

If you were to catch the stylist off-duty she would most likely be sporting athleisure. As she gets older, comfort has become key, she says. But when she puts it on \u2014 and she can put it on \u2014 she always considers her grandmother\u2019s fashion big three: quality, color and taste.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings that you might think, \u2018Oh I\u2019m only gonna wear that one time\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s what you grab,\u201d she says of her \u201ceclectic\u201d style. \u201cSometimes I can be this femme fatale, sometimes I can be super sporty, sometimes I can pop up to Paige on set and be super goth and she\u2019s like \u2018What are you wearing?\u2019 and I\u2019m just like, \u2018Oh, please.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Image asked Hampton to share five statement pieces that belong in every woman\u2019s wardrobe. Here are the stylist\u2019s starting five. <\/p>\n

Hair Stacey Booker
Makeup Darien Isaac<\/p>\n