The Who What Wear Podcast: Go Sports! Athlete Stylists Brittany Hampton and Manny Jay on Dressing WNBA It Girls, and Why It's More Than Picking Out Clothes

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode, Senior Fashion Editor Eliza Huber—Who What Wear’s resident expert on the intersection of sports and fashion—is sitting down with two stylists behind some of the best tunnel fashion we’ve seen in recent months. Brittany Hampton is a seasoned athlete stylist whose client roster includes some of the buzziest women in basketball: Paige Bueckers, Sabrina Ionescu, Cameron Brink, Evan Mobley, and Nika Mühl. She’s also the Golden State Valkyries’ fashion strategist. Manny Jay began his styling career working with musicians like Trippie Redd and Tink, and more recently manifested his way into the sports arena through his work with WNBA tunnel ’fit veteran Skylar Diggins-Smith. Today, Hampton and Jay discuss the WNBA’s unprecedented growth over the last year and how that heightened visibility impacts their clients’ relationships with fashion. They get into the ways that athlete fashion extends beyond aesthetics, influencing fan accessibility, marketing avenues for players, and even their on-court performance. Check out Eliza’s Go Sports content here!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Who What Wear podcast, your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion. I'm Who What Wears
0:23.0	co-founder and chief content officer Hillary Kerr, and today I'm passing the mic to our senior
0:28.9	fashion editor, Eliza Huber. Eliza writes our incredible go-sports features, where she dives into
0:36.5	the intersection of sports and fashion, and today,
0:39.8	she's sitting down with two of the top stylists working with athletes today, Brittany Hampton
0:45.9	and Manny Jay. Brittany has been styling in the sports arena for years, and her impressive
0:51.3	client roster includes Sabrina UNESCO, Cameron Brink, and Paige Beckers.
0:57.0	She frequently collaborates with Nike, runs her own creative agency, and most recently became the Golden State Valkyrie's fashion strategist.
1:06.0	Mani started his styling career learning from the best, including Patricia Field and Law Roach,
1:11.7	before going off on his own to style musicians like Trippy Red and Tink.
1:17.0	Manning got into WNBA styling recently through his partnership with Skyler Diggins-Smith,
1:21.7	and he also recently launched his own podcast, Stiling My Way Through.
1:27.1	There's so much to cover from the true impact
1:30.4	of tunnel fits to prepping for the WNBA All-Star Weekend. It's all coming up on who what
1:37.1	where. Mani and Brittany, welcome to the podcast.
1:47.5	Hi.
1:49.0	Thank you for having us.
1:50.5	Of course.
1:51.7	I'm a huge fan of both of you.
1:53.5	But for those in our audience who aren't following your work quite as closely,
1:58.6	Brittany is a creative director, designer, and stylist who's worked
2:02.7	with stars across the sports worlds, including Sabrina Yanescu, Cameron Brink, Evan Mowgli,
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