In Good Company
Brittany Hampton: Style, Wit, and Wisdom
Get ready to dive into the fashion universe with the incomparable Brittany Hampton on this week's episode of In Good Company. With roots tracing back to her grandmother's design legacy, Brittany's passion for style was born and bred within her. Tune in as she shares the hilarious tale of her chance encounter with Jeremiah in LA. From styling icons like Russell Westbrook, Lewis Hamilton, and Ariana Grande to her triumphant win on the TV competition series House of DVF, Brittany's journey is a testament to her unparalleled talent and unwavering dedication. As the creative director and designer for Honor the Gift, she set new standards, crafting bold and innovative looks that redefined athletic fashion. Now, as she continues to evolve with her company, Color by Virtue, Brittany brings her creative vision to new heights. Don't miss this episode as we unravel the threads of Brittany Hampton's extraordinary career and her unwavering commitment to the artistry of style.
Get ready to dive into the fashion universe with the incomparable Brittany Hampton on this week's episode of In Good Company. With roots tracing back to her grandmother's design legacy, Brittany's passion for style was born and bred within her. Tune in as she shares the hilarious tale of her chance encounter with Jeremiah in LA. From styling icons like Russell Westbrook, Lewis Hamilton, and Ariana Grande to her triumphant win on the TV competition series House of DVF, Brittany's journey is a testament to her unparalleled talent and unwavering dedication. As the creative director and designer for Honor the Gift, she set new standards, crafting bold and innovative looks that redefined athletic fashion. Now, as she continues to evolve with her company, Color by Virtue, Brittany brings her creative vision to new heights. Don't miss this episode as we unravel the threads of Brittany Hampton's extraordinary career and her unwavering commitment to the artistry of style.
can I tell you something that happened to me last night? Yeah, okay, I'm in bed at one in the morning and I'm this is a bad thing. I'm trying to work on this by not having my phone when I sleep. I'm sleeping and my phone is and I look at it. I do not have the number. I'm like who is this? I answered it's like Jada, and I'm like hello, it's blank, blank, blank. It goes hi, I'm like, and I'm like half asleep, I'm like Australian accent. I don't know who is I and I was like I'm sorry, I still don't know who this is.
Speaker 1:She goes you know the redhead and I was like COVID, covid, you used to come over my house during covid. She goes yeah, how have you been? I'm like great, like what's up? She goes. I came back to los angeles and I'd love to see you and then this is why it's hilarious she goes well, like, would you like to come over? I was like no, it's one in the morning. No, I'm not coming over. She goes. Check your phone. I was like okay, nudie, look at it.
Speaker 1:I'm like whoa she goes what are you doing? I was like I'm going to bed, I'm sleeping, I'm currently sleeping. She goes, you don't want to come over. And I was like let me see, yeah, a little chit chat about five minutes. I'm like how you been, I've been good, cool. She goes. So like, are you gonna come over? I was like no, I'm not coming over. She goes seriously.
Speaker 2:I'm like seriously, it's like late at night she thought the nude was gonna be like, yeah, icing on the cake, like you'd be all right, turn south, no way seriously, you're not gonna come over.
Speaker 1:I was like no, I'm not coming over, it's one of the mornings, go, really. I was like what do you mean? Really it's one in the morning, yeah, I'm not coming over. And she goes fuck, you hangs up. And I was like click, click and I was just like whoa but, in my mind I'm like you got and this goes back. Why does this stuff?
Speaker 2:happen to you all the time? Do you never get booty called? No jeremiah I don't have you, you had a late night the other night.
Speaker 1:That wasn't a booty call, huh, that was just like a date has a hangout, but I don't have the roster.
Speaker 2:You have brother, I don't have that dude. Two years you built an extensively long I didn't even have a number anymore. No, I'm saying, like you've the amount of the volume you've, you know, amassed over the last four or five years, like you're gonna get those straight calls at 1am, I feel like I have an amassed volume I feel like a gm is getting calls from players that played 10 years ago asking for another shot.
Speaker 1:Pretty much listen, man, I need a spot on that roster, yeah bro, I'm not washed up, I can play.
Speaker 2:I'm, I mean good for you, for I mean getting a new pig and saying no, but here, here's the thing.
Speaker 1:Why did they? Why did she get mad, why, why, why was that? Like that's weird. But also I think she wanted to be even more because I said no.
Speaker 2:I mean she got mad because it was probably a shock to her ego that, like she sent you a nude photo and you said no. Like how many guys say no to nude photos?
Speaker 1:That's what I also thought. If I went, I would have felt desperate, like there would have been a like. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like come over right now.
Speaker 2:Yes, what I mean? Like come over right now. Yes, yeah, I'm not. That's a little simpy for me. In general, like if a girl calls a guy and says I want to fuck, usually 10 out of 10 guys are we'll drive the fucking ends of the earth for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but think about those guys what like the, the caliber of the guy that would drop what he or wake up in the middle of his sleep? Yeah, sure thing. Let me take a retainer out.
Speaker 2:Go be there in 30 like come on here, like I'm saying we've all been there, like we've all received the fucking message and we're about to get in bed and we're like change of plans I guess you're right, I have been there, yeah yeah, we're just at a different stage now, you know what I mean like you're just like not incentivized by like yeah you know, and that wasn't even and that wasn't even a joke.
Speaker 1:I had my retainers in and she's like your voice sounds funny.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm wearing my retainers right now by the way, the retainer thing, because I have Invisalign right now and I have a lisp when I talk with it, I had to take it out. If I'm in a group setting with people, I don't know, with my homies, I can have it in, but now if I'm in a group setting, it's coming out Because I'm. That sounds ridiculous. It has this little thing on it. Yeah, it's like. Why is that your tongue can't like flick right, it's a little Makane.
Speaker 1:It's a little bit of sauce on the end of the tips.
Speaker 2:It is a into that more. Maybe I should just go full accent, just go full McConaughey.
Speaker 1:When people call How's it going? Where you been? What's the sauce, what's the tea? It started off a little George Debbia, George Debbia. It started off just a little bit like this, but then in the end it was like brother, what do you do with it?
Speaker 2:I was like Bro, you can be his AI voiceover, though I would love to. They should just hire you, green lights.
Speaker 1:Okay, so in the playlist with our guest this week, what's the song?
Speaker 2:I heard a song at Chateau. I was there a couple nights ago for dinner. The DJ was playing it and it's like an old 70s track. I never heard it, I'm pretty well versed Like funk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm pretty well versed in 70s funk, like r&b, soul. That's what I grew up on. The song is give me the night by george benson. It makes you want to get up and dance and it was actually requested by somebody which can be like that's like a weird gray area with djs like god don't take requests. Well, yeah, because djs have their own ego, like they all think the playlist of the shit, which nine times out of ten they are not and the dj actually, I tell, was actually really dope Big collar open shirt gold.
Speaker 2:And he's always taking breaks smoking. He's never DJing, he's actually never DJing. So someone over there requested this song and I looked at him and he looked at me. He goes oh boy, y'all are trouble, aren't you? Because we're kind of giving that person shit for asking.
Speaker 1:But he's like yeah, I'm cool with it like he had no ego.
Speaker 2:He was so chill about it. It came on and I was like I don't know it, give me a night by george benson, what is it?
Speaker 1:how do you hear this? And I want to move. That is so nice. Oh yeah, that makes you.
Speaker 2:That makes me want to stop this and dance I'm telling you, everybody started getting up and even I got up. We just stood up and just started like vibing. We all had, like wine man, such a good environment. The whole playlist this week is going to be kind of like that. Yeah, I'm going to curate the whole playlist to like that 70s funk era, like R&B. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's go what is your movie of the week. This one we've both seen. It's absolutely incredible. It's Past Lives. I love Past Lives.
Speaker 2:I watched it again the other night.
Speaker 1:It is so incredible, it's so good. It gives me a wanting to be present kind of feeling. I don't know like a thinking on the past, kind of melancholy-esque it's a little melancholy. But it's beautiful. It's a beautiful film. It's a. Please go see it. Past Lives, so good it's about a relationship.
Speaker 1:I think so. I think it's A24. It's just a great movie about relationships and life, but the cast was incredible. It's such a great movie Past Lives go see it. Okay. So five star review, which will be in the menu in our newsletter five stars this week what do you got?
Speaker 2:I love our little newsletter and it's really great just putting people on the shit they might not know about or giving a little five star.
Speaker 1:That's an entree. Do we have an entree this week?
Speaker 2:a little peek under the hood of like what we love.
Speaker 1:Yeah this week, my, my five star is an entree. You know I've had some, you know, appetizer five stars. This one's, this one's a heavy hitter. Yeah, what's yours, what's your five star.
Speaker 2:My five star is the Diptyque Candle Lotion line. I have not tried the lotion, their lotions, their hand lotions, their body lotions and their body spray.
Speaker 1:It's an oil.
Speaker 2:It's like an oil, it's an oil spray. So I get out of the shower, I apply the Diptyque lotion and then I do the body spray and it's just like like you don't even need cologne during the day. Really, you don't want to be like it's scented. You don't want to be like walking midday with just a crazy cologne boom scent. You know yeah it's like, yeah, you've been like passed by like midday by someone just like wearing like oud.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're like dog, like it's two o'clock and it's 95 degrees outside. Just walk by an amber crumbie, oh bro. So yeah, it's like a. It's just a very like citrusy kind of not earthy, but just really elegant subtle scent and leaves you smelling good dip tea. I don't even know that it's a sleeper because like I love, lilabo is great it's.
Speaker 2:It's a very strong scent, like no matter if they're lotions or clone, don't even matter't even matter. What you put on is strong, it's potent and it projects. I'm not really trying to project during the day Like I want you to. You know, hug me, pass by me like, oh, he smells fresh, he smells good, but I don't want you to like over Diptyque, my five star Lotions, lotions and body oils. Is that the circle glass one you have? Yeah, it's so nice that does smell so good it doesn't smell good.
Speaker 1:That's the one you left at the house. I did and then, oh my, it smells so good. What's your five star? My five star saved me this last week. Do you have clear? Of course I love clear. Clear. You for your service. Thank you for being in business. I was gonna miss my flight the other day.
Speaker 1:I got there going from where to where I was going from colorado to here and it was absolutely crazy. And I got there and I mean like the, the security line like goes all the way to where they don't have any more of those ropes and then all the way down dia. And I get there and there's like 30 people in the clear line and they just and I love how it's just like the scan your eyes thing and you just you don't even need your, your id or anything, show me your passport, get through. I went through the security line. I saw a few of the people that were just really tall dude with a red beanie and he like didn't even make it into the line and I was like through the security, going down the escalator it's clutch at the airport clear.
Speaker 2:it's incredible, especially like if you're in a pinch and it's looking tight. Yeah, I've been in situations where I remember I was in Orlando with my brother and he was like dude. The flight was taking off at like 545. We were at the house at five o'clock and we're half an hour from the airport. I'm like Austin, we're going to miss our flight. This dude is booking it to the airport Like we were running. It was illegal all the way there. The valet is sold out. He bribes the guy, gives him more money to park, park our car. We are sprinting through the airport and thank God we had clear. We skated through and we made our flight by 30 seconds.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Clear. Thank you Clear Five stars, I'd give you six if. I could, and this is not sponsored by Clear.
Speaker 2:No, we just love you, clear. I love you guys, but we'll take a sponsorship. A sponsorship if you need us.
Speaker 1:I'll be using Clear for the rest of my life. Another five stars our guest today big five stars.
Speaker 2:I guess it's one of my closest friends, someone who I generally love, who I've known for five, six years now and I talked to her weekly. She's one of the most beautiful women, one of the most talented women, self-made women I know. She's a creative director, she's a stylist, she's a designer.
Speaker 1:And before the end of this episode, I'm going to shoot my shot.
Speaker 2:You need a gang of Riz. Your Riz has got to be at an all-time high to even have an opportunity to talk to her. To be in front of her, brittany Hampton. Let's go B-Hamp, as I call her. Yeah, to be in front of her. Brittany Hampton. Let's go B-Hamp, as I call her. The girl I have a massive crush on. We're going to make it happen for you. You know that water has a little grill In good company In good company.
Speaker 1:You know that water that has a little grill that we both know it's not that good. It's a solo tooth grill. Do you have any gold teeth?
Speaker 3:I do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like caps.
Speaker 3:I have little caps. Yeah, I have one on the right side, one on the left side, or two, what?
Speaker 1:did you get in May? I have bottoms Gold grills on Melrose or something like that, I would rock two silver canine ones, grills and braids.
Speaker 2:Check in everyone for next season.
Speaker 3:He's going to be on the next tip drill video.
Speaker 2:Look for me sometime. I'm coming in high.
Speaker 1:Next season we both show up with braids. Welcome back to In Good Company.
Speaker 3:I'm dead. Thank you, guys for having me Seriously.
Speaker 1:A lot of good things to get into. Oh, yeah, so one of the things I want to know, because you're a stylist what do you rate our styles?
Speaker 3:I will say, when I walked in today I was like okay.
Speaker 1:You can be honest, I'm here.
Speaker 3:I'm here for it. I'm here for it, especially because you're doing the stripes over checks today. I'm doing stripes.
Speaker 2:Okay, is that what we're doing, always, always over checks? Okay, I feel like my family's been with in some form or fashion with the Deezus for like 10 plus years now so I'm just committed to stripes. I love that For now.
Speaker 3:What are we wearing today? We're wearing Vans With.
Speaker 1:Dickies and Levi's.
Speaker 3:I love that. I've always been a Vans girl too.
Speaker 1:I love them, do you guys?
Speaker 3:remember that music video back in the day. Like got my Vans on, but they look like sneakers. Yeah, that was my ex-boyfriend.
Speaker 1:No way, Really Wait. Who is that? That was a song. It was a song. Got my Vans on, but they look like sneakers.
Speaker 3:Hey, but they look like sneakers.
Speaker 2:That's how it went. How? How did you not know this? Is that like a West Coast song? I mean, it went pretty nationwide. That sounds like some yay area shit. It was called the.
Speaker 3:Pack. Yeah, and they were black skateboarders from Berkeley. I was in.
Speaker 1:Colorado skateboard. Judo with my little emo haircut. Got my pants on.
Speaker 2:They look like Mary Same era as like Deetriana Dougie. Yeah, it was so good. I feel like West Coast shit didn't make it to the South Like it didn't make it to Florida.
Speaker 3:Definitely giving, like palm trees and skateboards.
Speaker 2:I don't think I understood West Coast music back in the early 2000s. I don't know, I didn't understand it Like I thought the cadences were weird and like E4. I just couldn't get on board with it back then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have such an appreciation for it.
Speaker 3:now I like do you guys remember that Air Force One song that LA did back?
Speaker 1:in the day, Like that was, like what, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:And it's like Nike's still trying to bring them back and they're like pushing Air Forces down our throats right now. And it's like, unless you're from New York, like you're not respecting a Force One like that. And those boys out there I dated a boy from New York. It was definitely giving like new box of white forces crisp ones every two weeks.
Speaker 2:I was like, are you kidding? We gotta buy two pairs.
Speaker 3:Give me two pairs, but you know what the no-no is right.
Speaker 2:The air force want, no, no, no, crease blacks, blacks. It's the one pair you cannot buy. They look pretty.
Speaker 1:You will get clowned if you pull up with some black Air Force suits.
Speaker 3:They're so bad they look like a thing.
Speaker 2:You can't have them. It's a bad one. If anybody sees them, you're like what are those?
Speaker 3:It's crazy because Ambush came out with a pair too and I was like, okay, well then, if she could do it, but but it was definitely giving the black with the white check.
Speaker 2:She was like extra on the back. She was trying to own it. Yeah, they were trying to own it. Nah, girl, they're out. They might as well just cancel.
Speaker 1:That's what I even feel with black bands.
Speaker 3:I'm like white and checker only yeah, they'll never catch me in a black band, but I did like the black with the white laces and the white sole no white soul. Yes white soul black soul couldn't are you a black soul?
Speaker 1:on with the vans. There are other shoes that I'll wear.
Speaker 2:I don't wear vans, but like I like gum souls I'll do the all black.
Speaker 1:Kenny the jet rodriguez sandlot shoe. I have those in all black.
Speaker 2:I love them I like brown gum.
Speaker 1:Souls like I like yeah, I'm not yeah yeah, you do have a lot with the Brownsoul. Yeah, most of my shoes are Brownsoul, love the Gunsoul. They look cool whereas he played sports. They don't look cool with bands.
Speaker 3:That's fair, because he played sports. That's why the Gum Bottoms are such a signature move.
Speaker 2:Are they? Gum Bottoms are like such an athletic.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we did. To do them, god, the gum bottoms.
Speaker 1:Russ was like why? I was like shut up, you love it. Gum bottoms has always been a thing. Yeah, it's like the raw.
Speaker 3:It's like the first ever.
Speaker 1:What like Converse Everyone, Really Everyone. I dress like this every single day it does.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter what time it was 7 am.
Speaker 1:It was 7 am. I'm going to get coffee. If I'm leaving the house, why not look good? And then you go out and you see people that look like scrub asses and you're like not me. I'm going to look good when I go get coffee or get a bagel.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I dress like this thing. Right within yourself, you're like, okay, how am I going to dress? From head to toe, you're going to do the denim jacket, you're going to do the white tee, which is classic, but then you have on your pinstripe pants. You rolled them to the tee.
Speaker 2:Thank you. This fucking guy thinks he's Marlon Brando he just walks around channeling Paul Newman and Mar never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent okay, you know what it is.
Speaker 1:It's timeless and we both agree with this.
Speaker 1:Brando Newman, steve McQueen. If you go, look at all of their clothing. They wore like dress pants, jeans, nice pants, with like white tees and sweaters. It's a timeless style. One of the things I wanted to ask you, being in the fashion world, I have a style that will never go out with like white tees and sweaters. It's a timeless style. One of the things I wanted to ask you being in the fashion world, I have a style that will never go out, but fashion is very this season that season.
Speaker 1:There's stuff that comes out and I'm like how was anybody wearing this?
Speaker 3:And in 20 years.
Speaker 1:They're going to be like what was I thinking?
Speaker 3:Well, the crazy thing about it is history always repeats itself, especially in fashion, right? Yes, there are those designers where you're like, what is happening, what's coming down the runway, like what is this art project and that's what you, honestly, are looking at, but at the same time, you're like, wow, in 10 years from now, that might be the next look Like. Look at Issey Miyake it took him so long and then currently you've got, I mean, all the Japanese designers. Overall is someone that, like, everyone respects.
Speaker 3:The best, but like now the urban community is into it, and then they're taking it and they're being like okay, we want to be able to dress like this. So it's all about phases. Who are your favorite designers right now? Oh, there's a few. I mean, there's always the list of like. Therese is going to be on there. Celine's going to be on there. Celine's going to be on there. But, like the new emerging designers, I absolutely love Bianca Saunders.
Speaker 2:Like love, love, love. She's based in you would be obsessed. I can't wait. I'll send you a letter. I like what Dries is doing because I feel like Dries has been a little up and down the last couple years. But I think the last season and what's going forward right now. I like what Dries is doing and the price.
Speaker 3:Price points are good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you're actually surprised.
Speaker 3:You're like, wow, this is actually a price point that like we can afford at our age and especially in comparison to the other luxury brands that we're comparing it to, you can't even be buying Bottega every day, every day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's crazy, I mean they're going down the hill.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what's that like with like? One of my favorites is Bode.
Speaker 3:Yes, are are paying for both quality and you're paying for, like, the significance of it being one piece that no one else will ever have. I mean, of course she does the run, which will be like the mass to market sales, but in terms of that particular piece, you won't get it for another season. She's done really well with that. She started with having just a vintage clothing line first, and then she was selling little pieces here and there. She also stayed behind the brand and kind of let it build for itself and it's really just. I think it represents men at its true form, at their true form.
Speaker 1:It's so pretty, but masculine and a little bit out there.
Speaker 2:I don't want to butcher this guy's name, but I was telling him there's a guy named Tiger Takashi. Okay, yeah, he passed away A little bit out there, I don't want to butcher this guy's name, but I was telling him there's a guy named Tiger Takashi. Okay, yeah, he passed away. I found out like a year or two ago in a car accident. Young kid, but his parents are continuing his line.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes, and his silhouettes are like 1910, 1920, like Railroad America.
Speaker 1:Wow, so those are the ones that were at Departmento.
Speaker 3:Yeah they're at Departmento. Got it, got it.
Speaker 2:And his fits are. It's just so well done and so well executed. His jeans some of the best jeans I've ever seen. What are you? Vintage shop in town, gosh.
Speaker 3:I mean there's a ton of places. Recess is probably one of my faves, Recess yeah.
Speaker 2:Your journey into fashion? Did it start on the TV show you were on, no, or was it before that as well?
Speaker 3:It was before that, it was before that. So my journey in fashion gosh has started since I was a little girl. My grandmother was a designer and she lived in the Philippines and came to the US as an immigrant and was selling wedding dresses to get by.
Speaker 3:So she was doing hand-beaded wedding gowns that she was kind of selling to her communities and yeah, it was going viral and she would do these Filipinianas with these massive like bouffant style sleeves and like just gowns that you honestly couldn't get anywhere. Um, they were all made out of these like pineapple fibers that she would get the fabric from the philippines and then ship it to the us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 3:I have to show you little ones. But then she started doing things with barbies and that became a whole thing, because back then, like back in the 90s, barbie had their own magazine, which is really cool, because my grandma would make little, you know, photo shoots that she would do at her own house and then sell the photos to the magazine. At the time no way. So I have been. Yeah, I always tell people I'm like blood bread into fashion.
Speaker 2:You've been surrounded by it since you came into there.
Speaker 3:My grandmother has six kids and none of them could sew, they weren't in fashion or anything. I came out and when I was about five I started sketching. So she noticed and was like, okay, what are you drawing?
Speaker 3:And I was like, oh, I want to be like you when I grow up and so I would start sketching dresses, so she has photos of me on her lap at a sewing machine when I was young, yeah, but the crazy thing about it is I've always wanted to be a designer, but I never wanted to actually sew. My grandma was really strict, like she would rip the paper from up under me and like if I'm drawing, she would rip it and be like, if you're not going to make it, stop drawing. And that's how she was. And so there became a moment, I think, when I was like maybe 12 to about 16, I stopped sketching and I was like, well, I don't want to do it anymore and I was hiding it from her wasn't sewing, but I was also a child model. So being within that whole little you know world of like having a designer grandmother, then you're a child model.
Speaker 3:I started modeling when I was like six. I did my first Levi's campaign and it was everywhere Yep, shout out to Levi's. This is a San Francisco brand too, so I'm all about it. But yeah, I was in billboards in New York City. I was on every Mervyn's ad that you could possibly imagine and it was kind of tricky when I was a kid because you would go to school and you'd be on sales as the newspaper for $15.99 and kids were ripping you apart. Really They'd be like, oh, this week's Britney's $5.99 and this week she's Discount. Huh, kids are mean as shit. No, they are, they are. There was a moment, too, where I was just like, oh, I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 2:Your apprenticeship was basically like working with.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, which I absolutely loved, and so what better way to learn?
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Exactly no-transcript, like they're going to come for you. Blah, blah, blah, because I was too young.
Speaker 2:You have to be 16 in California. She wasn't hyped like okay my girl is a hustler?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, most people lie about their age in totally worse ways. Yeah, you got a job.
Speaker 3:You're working. How dare you, you're working? How dare you Exactly, exactly, so you know. Obviously she let me keep the job. She was like, okay, like I won't say anything, and my first job was in Los Angeles as a Ford model junior agent.
Speaker 1:How was that? That was great, really I loved it.
Speaker 3:I don't know what it was, but even when I was a kid I was like I want to be on the other side.
Speaker 1:You were recruiting the models for jobs, what it was.
Speaker 2:But even when I was a kid, I was like I want to be on the other side you're recruiting.
Speaker 3:So I was recruiting models and booking yeah, booking through agents, having clients call in and I'm picking up the phone like old school, like picking it up. They want such and such, they want Emily Ratajkowski, they want this. And I took Emily Ratajkowski's first nude digitals.
Speaker 2:No way, there's some on my computer I was going to. Was she already who she is now?
Speaker 3:No, or was it like kind of like undiscovered, somewhat Undiscovered Nude game.
Speaker 2:Yeah who found her Natalie.
Speaker 3:Smith from Ford Models. She was the head of Ford.
Speaker 2:Thanks, natalie. Y'all friends Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Emily, y'all friends, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Emily. If I see Emily out, I'll, yeah, I'll definitely say hi, but no, yeah, I can't imagine finding her are we is this. Are we still single? I'm single single single, huh, single very single got it, you haven't you've been holding back.
Speaker 2:You haven't thrown me in your lab with any friends yet.
Speaker 3:I'm not doing that. That's not my job.
Speaker 1:It's true.
Speaker 3:It's not Because when they break up, I'm a dude for you, Jude, of course You're such a great. God-fearing man.
Speaker 1:You're gonna do it for your bestie, huh? Speaking of bestie, I want everyone to know how you guys met.
Speaker 3:Talk about bestie.
Speaker 1:Either one could say it. How did you guys meet? Let's hear that we have an interesting story.
Speaker 2:I was attending a birthday party of a friend of mine at Shore Bar down in Santa Monica by the Palisades and I went by myself because I don't know nobody I knew knew him. So I go to the birthday party at Shore Bar and I just post up at the bar and'm just chilling, just drinking my own business, and then, uh, like drake comes in and I'm kind of at the bar alone and he stands right next to me and his security is like surrounding me. I'm just like looking around, like man, I'm just out here my own business. Will y'all please move out of my way? Like I was getting a little frustrated and I think hamp kind of like just saw this tall, light-skinned boy over by the bar, like surrounded by security. So she probably thought like I don't know, I don't know. She probably thought I was like some hot shot coming out.
Speaker 2:She's like who's this? Like one of Drake's new artists, like who's this guy? So she pulls up and I get her a drink because nobody's helping her at the bar.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no one was serving drinks at the bar, by the way can we just preface the fact that this is clearly a Los?
Speaker 1:Angeles story right.
Speaker 3:Like.
Speaker 2:Drake's at a party we're in the Palisades Like got it. This happened. What was this five years ago?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, 2018.
Speaker 2:2018. 2018. So five years ago is when I first met Behem. Anyways, I get in a drink and we just have the best conversation for like an hour and a half. Like we're just in our own world. We're not partaking in the party at all. Everyone's going super hard across the dance floor, all those tables.
Speaker 3:I'm getting hot. Can you tell I'm getting hot, I'm kidding.
Speaker 2:And we just like, we hit it off and then I don't ask for her number.
Speaker 1:He did not ask how'd that make you feel?
Speaker 3:it what it's. It's so weird. I will say this men have this thing where it's like, okay, as a woman, you're already kind of like I don't want to be the person to approach him, right, yeah, he was at the bar. She kind of already did that. All my girlfriends wanted drinks. I've already done my part, yeah she's done her part. Like I've walked up, I've started this conversation. We probably were talking for about an hour and a half.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You had a baseball cap on. You have that very like vibe. Yeah, let's say that. Yeah, let's frame it that way that sounds better. Anyway, come on, it honestly was like he disappeared in the night. Yeah, and I will give you this tidbit that he didn't necessarily know when me and my girlfriend drove off, we saw him get into. Which car? Were you driving the bantaga? Was I driving a bantaga?
Speaker 2:yeah, matt, matt gray. Oh, I was driving a bottega yeah. Matt Gray oh, I was driving a Bottega.
Speaker 3:And I was like, oh ladies, he's rich.
Speaker 2:No, definitely wasn't my Bottega. It was not my Bottega. I know it's Austin. I don't know, I don't know where the hell Austin was at my brother.
Speaker 3:But the gag is is that I watched him pull off a valet and I was like oh bitch, we, oh bitch, we didn't even get his number.
Speaker 1:I was pissed okay, so you meet that night. Yeah, we meet that night, we meet that night.
Speaker 3:Are we really telling this story?
Speaker 1:oh no, yeah, we gotta get all the way to god so I don't know.
Speaker 2:Was it a week later, cannot? Was it a week later when I saw you again?
Speaker 3:it had to have been.
Speaker 2:It had to have been like a week, like a week or so later, and it was July 4th. It was July 4th, so I didn't have her number, she didn't have mine. I probably thought I'd never see her again, because it was kind of, you know, by chance.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Random party, those encounters you usually never bump into that person again.
Speaker 3:Never bump into that person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe potentially, and so I think everybody's at the all-white party At Nobu, at Nobu, down the street, from Shorebar, down the street from Shorebar, which I didn't see her at this Nobu party. You were there, I was there she was there.
Speaker 2:I was there, but we were in our own different sections, worlds, whatever, our own different people. I didn't see her there. After the Nobu party, my brother and them wanted to go home. I'm like, man, I'm not going home like these fools went home. I went back to short bar by myself again after a party, like a loser. I like stumble in there and, uh, upstairs at short bar is like more of like a private area.
Speaker 2:I guess, yeah, yeah so I like walk upstairs I am drunk, and I see Behamp with one of her good friends, golden Barbie, jasmine and y'all are with Louis and she like gives me this look like, boy, you better come over here and say hello to me. So I go down, I sit down next to her. She introduced me to her friends. I mean, I start talking for like five, 10 minutes and then there's like this moment where it got quiet. You know that scene in the elevator drive when everything just like blacks out and they just look at each other and he just grabs her and kisses her B-Hamp, grabs my face and plants the craziest kiss on me and we start making out at Shore Bar upstairs. Everyone's watching, everyone's watching, everyone's watching. She's kissing my face. I'm blown away. I got like Tweety birds over my head going like this. I'm like yo. This girl's rocking me right now at Shore Bar.
Speaker 3:Reminds me that both of us were like we don't really just randomly kiss people like that.
Speaker 1:I do not kiss A lot of alcohol involved. That's a movie scene, though.
Speaker 2:I'm not like a kissing public guy If you're not my girl, I'm not just kissing strangers and so I get her number and I remember I'm like super hyped, I like say goodbye and I'm like going down the stairs. She didn't see this, I slip. I am like going down the stairs, like sliding down the fucking stairs. How'd it go? Him like going down the stairs, like sliding down the fucking stairs, like I'm just like bro, I woke up the next morning, my ass and back were so fucking sore.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh bruises are so bad. I was, I was lit, I did not know that at all that's crazy. I'm so glad you didn't see that we might not have been friends after that but remind you, we're at shore bar.
Speaker 3:Until about what time? Maybe three, four?
Speaker 2:it's like 3 30 in the morning. It was like 3, 30 in the morning. Yeah, whoa.
Speaker 3:So then, I go home. We exchange numbers at night.
Speaker 2:We probably both got home like 4 am.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then I got on a plane On a PJ.
Speaker 2:She gets on a plane. Actually, we both got on PJs the next day. Private jets, I'm just saying people want to know. You know, and it was my brother, me, a friend of ours, and Kelly Oubre and this girl. We make it to Vegas and I've texted her like two or three times like hey, like man, last night, right, nothing, like hey, what are you up to? Just nothing from her. So, whatever, we go to our dinners, we go out, we go to nightclubs, me and my brother and some friends, they're like taking us to the table.
Speaker 3:I'm getting ready for Vegas. I'm not texting.
Speaker 1:He has no idea.
Speaker 2:The Wi-Fi is shit.
Speaker 3:The Wi-Fi is shit and I have to go shopping because I didn't bring anything, Right right and I have to go shopping because I didn't bring anything Right, right.
Speaker 2:So they're taking us to the table as we're getting seated. I look up and there's B Ham with three fucking dudes that I know that are athletes. And I look and she's just having a blast and she looks at me like terrified. She looks at me.
Speaker 3:I looked at him like I was in trouble.
Speaker 2:I was like fuck, I'm like wait a second. This girl literally just kissed me like I was the man of her dreams the night before, and now she's out with some completely other dudes and I know these dudes, and one of them was on our plane earlier.
Speaker 3:It was a hot girl summer in 2018.
Speaker 1:She had a full hot girl moment, but you were the man of her dreams. That's our story. That was our story.
Speaker 2:That's how we just got like mad tight after that Cause I gave her a lot of shit about it. Yeah, he did. I stepped to her like yeah he did. Do you go up to the table?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, oh yeah, I put up on it.
Speaker 1:Oh my, how was that? And? Remind you he's like sorry.
Speaker 2:Oh, like with the maybe she gave me the emoji like kind of shrug slash. Sorry, I'm just living my best life. That's so great.
Speaker 1:So after that you texted back, I assume.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she finally got back to me, that's so good, I think that night I think you like walked away from me and I was like wait.
Speaker 2:I remember, now I remember yeah, and then I think, ever since that moment, like our relationship has continued to build, like we're very, very close. Now Be him. You know one of my closest friends, confidants, you know, and no more makeout sessions. No more makeout sessions, unless there's a lot of schema involved. It's possible. It's sessions.
Speaker 3:No more makeout sessions, unless there's a lot of schema involved. It's possible. It's possible. No, anything's possible. Thanks, kg, everything.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's a pretty dope story, honestly.
Speaker 3:No, it was a great story.
Speaker 1:What if you both end up in Vegas?
Speaker 3:Because NBA Summer League starts the day after July 4th At that time too, I was dressing Russell Westbrook, so that kind of led into like, okay, let's go to Summer League. A girlfriend of mine was dating a player you know, just end up on that bus, so how did you go from sewing?
Speaker 3:with your grandmother to styling famous athletes. So to be honest with you, it was kind of a huge pivot. I moved to New York at the end of 2019, which then I was starting my own clothing brand at the time and still styling Russell and a couple other athletes and I really had my foot in the menswear. For whatever reason I think that came from like Nickelodeon days and just styling like Big Time Rush, I guess, was like my first boy group that I ever styled. And then I started working with Russell. So I've known Russell for a really long time Through Diane von Furstenberg days. We met at Fashion Week and so that was always just a connection that him and I have had. He then hired me to dress him, as well as his wife.
Speaker 2:For particular events.
Speaker 3:Russell Westbrook. So for particular events parties, tunnel looks and like Met Gala looks it was always a really, really, really good time.
Speaker 1:I've always wondered this with athletes Do you do the tunnel outfits?
Speaker 3:I've done some. Let me tell you this Athletes in particular have their own styles, right? Russell Westbrook never came out and was, like Brittany Hampton's, my stylist. That's not what they do. They like to take their own credits for that and that's fine. But there were times that I would like put together looks for his closet and then half the time it's like you think that there's a particular look that he's coming out in. And no, he switched out the shoes, the jacket, tucked in the shirt, done whatever. And I'm not even just calling out Russ, I'm calling out all of them.
Speaker 1:I'm like, guys, stick with what your stylist knows yeah, so they take what a stylist gives them and then, kind of like, do their own thing with it exactly, is it? Hard at times to. I mean, everyone has, like, some people have a very eclectic style where you're like, how, like, how do I style this person?
Speaker 3:I mean, russell does oh yeah oh, yeah, yeah russell's very stubborn in that sense, but he knows how to style so I couldn't even blame him. A lot of the times I'd be like yo, you did that, and he also has three kids. So it's like he would tell me sometimes like yeah, you're going to be so pissed at me, but my kids switched my shoes. Or like no, I really wanted me to wear this shirt. And like what am I going to do? Really get mad about that? Like no, that's a particular thing that he wants to do. And let's not meant like russell knows style. I mean, he's been doing it since he was one of the first in the gate to really walk through the tunnel and the looks that he was wearing and some of a lot of people called him outrageous looks- and you met russell through dvf.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, we met during fashion week at the time and wait, because I want to back up even further.
Speaker 2:Okay, how did you get onto the DVF show?
Speaker 3:So the DVF show was on E. So from Ford Models I was a junior booker. One day, an agent, natalie Smith, emily Ratajkowski's agent, looked across for me and was like, hey, nickelodeon is looking for a stylist this weekend. Are you available? And I was like wait to do what I was like I've never styled before. And she's on the phone with them and she's like yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we have a girl, Brittany Hampton. You know she's going to be great. How much is the rate? And she's booking me like she's my agent.
Speaker 3:She was also the biggest bitch in the world. We can go back to that story one day. But she would walk in every single day not say a word to me, and then one day I didn't say a word back. I was the front desk reception girl and I was junior booker. So I was at the front desk and she walks in and I watch her and I don't say a thing. And she stands at the door and she turns around and I went there's your little devil wears Prada.
Speaker 3:That was my devil wears Prada moment. And then she goes back in there and then, I think it was that same day, she was like Brittany, and so I ran in there and I was like hey, she never called my name. So she was like, oh, will you go down to Rodeo and grab us lunch please today? And I'm like okay, Like I thought it was bitch work. But then I came back and she had cupcakes for me and I was like what is this for? And she was like, oh, we're giving you a little raise today, All within the same day. Sometimes it takes those little moments for you to be kind of like bitchy to your boss For them to like respect you.
Speaker 1:You got to stand your ground a little yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was definitely giving that, but anyways. So, with that being said, she booked me the job at Nickelodeon and the first time I ever worked with Nick, I dressed Ariana Grande and Jeanette McCurdy and it was for an event. God, I couldn't even remember what it was called right now, but it was for a Nickelodeon event.
Speaker 2:It was on Cloud 9?.
Speaker 3:You went from like nervous to Well, the crazy thing about it is Ariana Grande. Wasn't Ariana Grande back then? Right, this is 2008, 2008, and she was on Sam and Cat, where, no, sam and Cat wasn't even a thing.
Speaker 1:She was on.
Speaker 3:Victorious. She was on Victorious, so Ariana Grande was on Victorious.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that. Wait, she's an actress yeah. I didn't even know that she you guys didn't know this. No, I thought she just like popped on the scene because I thought she was a singer just sing. So no.
Speaker 3:So she was on Victorious first and then she got her own show called Sam and Cat, which then was a show about her and Jeanette McCurdy. So my first job ever was while she was still on Victorious, and then I did that job and I came back to work the next day and Natalie Smith goes. You have a new job. And I was like what are you talking about? And she was like Nickelodeon would like to hire you full-time as their in-house stylist. Blah blah.
Speaker 3:I started bawling, crying, because I was like no, like I don't know how to do this. This doesn't make any sense. I can't be a stylist. Blah blah, I just didn't know it. I've worked in the industry for so long. I was always like a dresser, a backstage at fashion, like I've been coming to LA on the Greyhound, like driving down on weekends from the Bay Area, and I knew that I wanted to work in the fashion industry. And like styling doesn't have guidance, right, there's a lot of like, misunderstood, like things that happen in the industry and and so I don't know it's. It's one of those things where a lot of things are misconstrued. Like stylists, there is no way to be a stylist.
Speaker 1:There's no blueprint to being a stylist um and so many variables exactly.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of variables, but on top of that, there's a lot of gatekeeping in the industry too, which sucks because a lot of people have so many different clienteles but they're not willing to give and give and give. So, when it comes down to PR firms that you have to pull from brands that you want relationships with, there's not some big book that's like oh, these are the numbers to every single person that you can call, here are the email addresses to people that you can send requests to. It doesn't work like that. You kind of have to go out and still fish for things and pitch for your client that you're dressing to be approved, which is kind of bizarre, right Like. Imagine going to a brand and being like hey, I would like to pull this dress for Ariana Grande.
Speaker 3:There were so many times that I would get no's across the board. So, with that being said, I actually gave La Roche Ariana Grande at the time and she did her first album and she was like I really want you to style me. And I was still working at NYX. I was like, oh, I don't. You know I can't do both. You're going on tour, I can't.
Speaker 2:Did you find I mean. So how was it being a young mixed woman of color? Did you find a lot of roadblocks and gatekeeping? I did In part because of that, you feel like I did when I was younger.
Speaker 3:I was like I want to be like Tyra Banks, I want to be like Kamora Lee and have my own brand, and those were the girls that I always looked at Kamora Lee, was like GOAT For people who don't know like Kamora Lee had baby fat.
Speaker 2:Exactly my sister, every girl, especially any like girl of color.
Speaker 3:That was it, it was it, and so there were, there were ideations of like the people that I wanted to be, like right, but then there was never like the rules of how to get there, because they kept all of that from us. And so even when it came down to working in the industry at first I felt like they were very welcoming, like Viacom, mtv Networks and Nickelodeon were like we want you here. I was young, I was, you know, I was 21, 22. The kids loved me, they were begging for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah and like, and so it was a relationship that was new and fresh and I created like the Nickelodeon closet. So that was good. But the only person that I knew at that time that was the head stylist literally everyone was June Ambrose and it was like I want to be just like her, Like she was, because she was dressed in Jay-Z at the time, Like she was doing everyone Jay-Z, Nas Khalees, like everyone that you could think of and it was just like this is who I want to be like. So, with that being said, I did that. Then House of DVF came, right after I left Nickelodeon.
Speaker 3:They called you or you like?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:So there were all these flyers everywhere because I went to fit them. I would also get all these emails. Diane von Furstenberg is doing a reality TV show. Diane von Furstenberg anyone who knows fashion knows that she created the wrap dress right. She was a princess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wrap dress.
Speaker 3:You're like, yeah, yeah, I have one. Well, think about it like this, your robe, any male robe that you have, right. So she took like that type of silhouette and then turned it into a dress. Everyone on the East Coast like you can't go to New York without seeing a woman in business in a DVF wrap dress. That's just who she was.
Speaker 3:When I heard this, I used to shop at the DVF store that was on Melrose. The manager at the store called me and was like hey, brittany, like I know you always, you know pool here, blah, blah, blah, blah. Dvf is having a reality show. You should sign up for it. I was like no, like I hate the word reality TV, no Plus. At that time I came from Nickelodeon, so I'm coming from, like, real television and film. I'm not coming into reality TV spaces. So I got another call from FITM. They said the same thing for my old advisor, because I did my entry project into FITM with DVF. That was my main thing. I got another call and I was on the phone with my cousin at the time and I was like I think it was Skype back then because we didn't have Facebook.
Speaker 3:So I was on Skype and I was like, if I get one more fucking email about this DVF show, like I'm going to lose it. And my cousin was like what DVF show? She's sitting there Googling it. She's like, oh, DVF has a reality show. She puts me in an application, she applies for me to be on the show.
Speaker 3:Whoa Pissed. I got a call the next morning from the producers Like hey, brittany, we got your application for the house of dbf. So I'm like what are you talking about? And we all know we live in los angeles. Producers love a cunty, little, bitchy girl on the other line so they're like no, no, no, no, like we want you to come in and I'm like I'm not coming in, click they back and it's another woman on the phone. She's like hey, brittany, and.
Speaker 1:I sat there and I was just like yo.
Speaker 3:They do not take no for an answer. Fine, I will go in for one casting, sat in front of seven producers. They were pissed Like they loved me so much, and it just was one of those things where I was sitting there like they're going to pick me. They're going to pick me.
Speaker 2:They're going to pick me. You already knew.
Speaker 3:I ate it up, like they asked me in the interview. They were just like oh, like, are you currently in a relationship? I was like next question. They were like yeah, we need her on television.
Speaker 2:That's like the opposite of desperation, when you're like, yes, we need her, we want her.
Speaker 1:That's how it feels being a guy. Sometimes I'm not interested, just so fall in love with them right.
Speaker 3:So I was on dvf, the house of dvf, which was on e, and it was a competition series between 13 girls, um, and I won it, and so that has kind of like been my pivot in terms of like my career within the fashion industry and like living in New York for a time. And then, yeah, matt Russell, and honestly, our relationship has always been cool. He was, you know, good friends with a group of my friends that I had at the time and finally decided to call me to ask if I wanted to be a part of his brand. On the gift and I was like, meh, I don't do menswear. And he's like, yeah, you do Like same girl by the way it was a life-changing experience then.
Speaker 3:It was. What is something? You didn't even?
Speaker 2:want to do ended up being something that really helped.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And what was winning? What did you?
Speaker 3:do so. Winning was to become her brand ambassador, which then I got to travel around the world, which I had never done. I didn't even have a passport at the time. I was a little girl from San Francisco without a passport, and Diane von Furstenberg herself would just take me from city to city to city, country to country, all over the world. It was crazy because back then brand ambassadors weren't like a thing right, so that was like imagine bloggers at the time that were then taken and then catapulted into their next, whatever title that they wanted to give them. So brand ambassadors became a representation of the brand. So basically, I was like a well-known TV known model. So we were going everywhere from, like, singapore to the Philippines, to Thailand, to Dubai, and I had to host the first ever fashion week there and it was really cool. And then on top of that, I did correspondent work for E, so I was doing like the fashion police segments online and going to the Met Gala doing the Oscars.
Speaker 2:So you're growing your network, your connections. You get thrown in, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it was a great pivot. It was a phenomenal pivot.
Speaker 1:I would never take it back. It was the most fun, cool thing you could possibly experience in that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1:Like he was saying, did you have like a whoa? These are my dreams coming true in front of my eyes.
Speaker 2:Are you able to realize that in the moment, or is that something you look back on now Like man? I really lived that.
Speaker 3:It was definitely one of those like I lived it Probably should have did a little bit more Is that always the case Be more productive.
Speaker 1:Is that what you mean?
Speaker 3:Yeah, when you're in that light you get a little scared right. You're afraid to kind of dip your toe into that pond, and so there were a lot of opportunities that would come my way that I kind of was just like no, I don't know if it's the right time. Like even when it came down to season two of House of DVF, they were very much like this should be Britney's series, we'll follow her around the world, we'll dive into her personal life, into her personal relationship. I was dating an NFL player at the time and it was like no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a little too intrusive.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, could I have been like the? New Kim, probably you would be You'd have your own $3 billion skincare line.
Speaker 3:Yeah, tell me about it. Your skin looks great. I should have said yes, thank you.
Speaker 1:But rejection is protection.
Speaker 3:Rejection is protection, but I do feel like we currently only live one life, you know, and so it's like I would have rathered make those choices and then be able to like recant them if I wanted to. Yeah, but I mean hey there's always now, right.
Speaker 1:There's probably, like I don't know, millions and millions of girls that wanted to be on that show.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Let alone win the show. Yeah, and then just yeah. I'm going to travel the world working in fashion, doing the thing that I love.
Speaker 3:Yes, I definitely have gained a lot of my followers from that. Yeah, yeah, you got paid to do it. I did, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:And there aren't a lot of brands that do that now. There are brand ambassadors for different companies right now, but they're not taking that same initiative to like take one girl, change their life, girl or boy, change their life and then create something out of it. Like I got to design a collection with DVF. I got to you know style a runway show. I got to promote the brand on every level and be like the spokesgirl for the brand up until the next girl won.
Speaker 2:Can I ask a question? When you're styling celebrities, athletes, et cetera, and you say pulling, you're going to major designer stores and are you renting the clothes Are like the celebrities buying them and then like keeping them, or they're like on a like consignment, they give them to you and you bring them back and then they sell them to somebody on the street. That is correct. They are selling them to somebody on the street.
Speaker 3:That is correct. They are selling them to someone on the street. That's great.
Speaker 2:So you could absolutely be wearing something that someone's worn on the runway Really.
Speaker 3:And they gave it back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Because everyone gets something out of it, right. The celebrity or athlete or whomever talent gets to look super sharp on the runway. Meanwhile, the brand gets that exposure.
Speaker 3:Exactly. So let's pivot to like dressing athletes right. So dressing athletes in particular. A lot of the times athletes want shoppers. They don't want stylists, because they have. You know, they have a full, whether it's 91 games for a season, et cetera, like they have a committed closet that they need.
Speaker 3:They can't rent clothes, also because of their sizing and frames Like they're massive humans, for example. It's like someone like Judah. Yes, I could go to a designer and pull actual samples which might be their samples that they're just willing to gift, slash, could be like their reference samples that they're using for runways. But like you, for example, example I couldn't do that. I would have to buy off the rack. So, yes, if you ended up wearing it To an event, I would then have to charge you for it, because stores don't want that item back. But there's a lot of shady stylists out there in the world.
Speaker 2:Wait a minute. I know people who bought it, worn it, brought it back.
Speaker 1:Tag still on it. Tag still on it. So do any of the companies give stuff to athletes for free? Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:If you are. Well, there's a little bit of both. So, like Prada, for example, has a couple brand ambassadors right now, but yes, they are loaning the clothing and then they're expected to give it back.
Speaker 3:But there are a lot of other brands that do have a particular like marketing budget for seating, that they are gifting unique clients a ton of stuff like even on the gift I was gifting everyone because I loved them, but I was like I want this to be a huge representation across not only the athlete world, but to actors, musicians, everyone that you could think of, because if we're going to represent the inner city in full, this is how we need to do it.
Speaker 2:Giving everyone but me, yeah, I never received a box.
Speaker 1:I can't honor the gift I didn't get.
Speaker 2:Honor, what gift. Because he lost his mail. Oh, that's why.
Speaker 3:I quit.
Speaker 2:You basically were put you in position to work for Honor, the Gift which is Russell Westbrook's clothing brand. And that came about through.
Speaker 1:It's like personal connections, yeah, through personal connections.
Speaker 3:So Russell called me to be a part of Honor, the Gift, which I absolutely loved. At first I was like, no, I don't do menswear. But he was like we're about to pivot. So he was like we want to go into cut and sew. And then, on top of that, I really want to start to incorporate women's and kids.
Speaker 2:He was like ground floor at the time. It was like just starting to bubble. He was really just trying to get at the time, getting it going, and he's like I want to elevate this, I want to like take this as far as I can take it.
Speaker 3:Exactly, exactly. He had a couple of pop-ups at the time, I think you know he started with printables, so it was just t-shirts and hoodies, and at the time the team was only about three people and he had a phenomenal graphic artist, david Smith, who I love and has created the full imprint of the brand. And then they kind of were like all right, we're ready to grow. So we went from a team of three to a team of seven. That ended up being like we included a full e-com site. It was going to be not only direct to consumer, but then we brought in a wholesale team. They're now in over 200 doors worldwide. And then I brought in women's and kids department. So we started with women's, thinking that it was going to be like a really small collection. He was like, oh, we'll try it first, maybe we'll, you know, start it next year, came back and of course, the first samples were incredible. So we pushed it and we ran with it and then we sold out in the first collection.
Speaker 1:And you incredible. So we pushed it and we ran with it and then we sold out in the first collection and, like you're, you're involved with, like designing the actual pieces, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:So my involvement with Honor the Gift was designing, but then also doing a lot of like the creative direction work with booking shoots, producing like photo shoots, video shoots, everything e-com wise and everything that was like the story behind story and concepts behind the brand.
Speaker 1:But like what you're doing at Honor, the Gift is like the same stuff you're doing with your grandmother, right. Yeah, was that like the first time in your designing, where you were like all this the cutting and the sewing. Was that the first time you were like, oh, I've done this.
Speaker 3:Yes, like full circle moment, yes, and it was definitely a full circle moment for me. I don't think I've ever recognized that. Thank you, that's exactly what it was and, to be quite honest, that's one of the reasons why I left the brand wasn't because there was beef, it was mainly because it was like, wow, if I can do this for any other brand, I should be able to do it for myself. Because, especially when I've been able to do it for myself at such a young age and now it's understanding the company in full right at such a young age, and now it's understanding the company in full right, it's designing it, yes, and then building the proper team of designers to kind of help you push that vision through, and the production managers, et cetera, and then you can take your idea and like, create the full concept and the marketing assets and you guys operate completely independent, right oh?
Speaker 3:yeah.
Speaker 2:No backing by LVMH or any other big house no backing, no, no at all.
Speaker 3:It was all russell there has to be a lot of like, roadblocks and challenges with that right, even for as big as russell is yeah, and especially when it comes down to like russell's vision, right like his vision through and through was, like he wants this brand to be his brand but then also be at the level of any others that were there, whether it was the roots, the fear of gods, he knew that, like that's what he wanted to pivot into. So, yes, he completely funded it on his own.
Speaker 3:He still does, doesn't have a partner with him. In that I'm sure they're looking.
Speaker 2:To scale your company. You need like real investment, not just financially but just in terms of being able to scale a company with manufacturing, producing.
Speaker 3:You need someone and, to be honest, the company grew at such a fast range and I don't know how to say this any better but we grew too fast. We created a monster. To be quite honest, we were again in 200 doors worldwide, but then also brought in women and kids, and then we opened up a store right after the pandemic. So to then open up a store on La Brea, then go direct to consumer, then be in 200 doors and only have a team of 7 to 10 people, you kind of wonder where else do we really need help?
Speaker 2:We're going to keep up, Matt. Happy investment from LVMH. Now you see how they've scaled.
Speaker 1:LVMH yeah, and now you see how they've scaled LVMH is investing like not just money, but like resources, knowledge.
Speaker 3:Everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything.
Speaker 2:Sales team.
Speaker 1:So you're no longer with.
Speaker 3:I am no longer with Under the.
Speaker 1:Gift. What do you got on the plate?
Speaker 3:A lot of things. I mean, I do still style, but I consult more than anything else. What does that mean? So I can consult in terms of like image consulting work, so like I'll do closet work and I will do campaigns I've done some StockX stuff, some Jordan brand stuff, some Nike things but in terms of styling, I think I'm ready to hang up my little, hang up my coat, like Law Roach would say Will you not style me? Of course I'll style you.
Speaker 2:Before we hang it up? Have there been a celebrity or a talent that you've worked with where you kind of like pinch yourself, Like Zendaya, for example, Like someone that you know, we all have our moments like damn like this is really happening, Like there's someone I love watching or seeing or listening to. You know what's crazy or listening to.
Speaker 3:You know what's crazy, because I've been styling since I was, you know, 16, 17. It is incredible to see where these young girls have gone and how they've pivoted across the world.
Speaker 3:Like young hollywood is no longer young hollywood, right, it's like they are who they are. I worked, I got a chance to work with zendaya through law roach and like that was in the beginning, you know, and like he got zendaya from like the ground and it's like I get to see him nowadays and still be like I'm so proud of you because he was that same. Like we had our guerrilla styling moments where, like him and I would have to go to Gucci because they were declining her and like go to the store, have to find her something, hopes that she wears it, and she looked incredible. So then finally for them to recognize her is one thing, right. But then when you look at currently the stylists that are in this world, we're finally getting like a name for ourselves. You know we're on the covers of like Hollywood reporters because they recognize that stylists are not only just the person that's shopping a celebrity's closet. They are their image architects through and through. It's nice to finally have like stylists be recognized in rooms.
Speaker 2:They're so important, I think, because they're behind the shadows. You know like you guys are like architecting and nobody sees it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so it's hard to get that recognition that love.
Speaker 1:You have to fight for that and I feel like now it's coming full circle.
Speaker 2:You know, with tiktok and instagram and all these social platforms, you're able to kind of highlight what you do more yeah than you were able to in the past yeah, there's that.
Speaker 1:I've seen that with like a few different celebrities, where they've always been like actors or whatever. And then there's like that summer where they're on the med, like on the magazine covers, and you're like what happened to you? You, you got a Goyard bag and you're rocking some Xenia pants. Speaking of glow up, who's responsible for this?
Speaker 2:The chef Stylist, the chef from the Bear. Oh yeah, Bro, his swag the last. Oh my god, he's so cute.
Speaker 3:Not that he didn't have it.
Speaker 1:He's not dressed like that when he's on Shameless.
Speaker 2:No, he had some style before. But he had some style before but it's come. Elevated. He's on a whole nother level right now yeah, everything he's rocking is dope. He's a stylist. Right, it takes stylist. It takes stylist yeah.
Speaker 3:It takes the creative director of the team to truly create that image Like you know whether that's Meg Thee Stallion, who currently has one, or like Cardi B, who has Colin. Like there are the people that are molding these girls and guys to be exactly who they should be.
Speaker 1:That's dope. How do you attack different people with different personas and different I don't know identities? How do you like take what you have in your style, know theirs and like work together with that?
Speaker 3:Well, we definitely grow your stems through your roots right, and that's something that we all do Like we want to get to know you.
Speaker 3:We don't want you to not feel comfortable in the clothing that you wear, because if you don't feel comfortable, it's obvious. I'm one of those girls that I'm definitely like if I'm dressing a woman and I'm like, okay, which earrings? And she's like I don't know, I don't know, I don't have time, like pick no, because I need you to love which earrings you're going to put on. Like that's just who I am.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of stylists that are like that too, and there's a level of trust too, because sometimes you might not want to put it on and you might not feel comfortable, at least initially until you put it on, yeah, and then you see it in the mirror and you're like wait a second, I look fly as hell, yeah, it's like she was right.
Speaker 2:you got to trust your stylist. You got to trust that they have your best interest. Yeah, there's's been some I've looked at like that ain't for me, that ain't my style, and then I'll get kind of pushed into putting it on and I'm like oh wait, shit, this looks great, yeah. So there's those moments too.
Speaker 3:And there's the teams that have to understand too, just like you're saying right, how do I necessarily know what I'm picking? I'm more than likely. If you're telling me you have one event that you want to go to, just one, for that one event, I'm pulling you three racks of clothing Really Three racks, holy cow. And then we're narrowing down 20. Looks that narrow down to 10, looks that narrow down to one. So it's like that type of we're not just doing it to do it, we're doing it to make sure that you feel comfortable in what you're wearing before you go outside and have to present that, because you don't just represent yourself, you represent me. It's literally that mood board that you guys are creating for your next photo shoot. It's that fully concepted into like, okay, let's do this for a month long, slash a season long, and we're going to get a commitment from each and every single brand. We're going to shop that particular look, those particular color palettes, and then that way you have a closet that you're building. Budgets do matter.
Speaker 1:And what do you mean by that?
Speaker 3:I've had clients back in the day who don't necessarily have the budget, so then it's like, okay, well, you can't expect to have designer wardrobe head to toe and you want a particular look, but you're not willing to front the budget.
Speaker 2:Can you make an example of a budget? Like what's a budget?
Speaker 3:I mean, it depends on what it is that you're going for, right, what's?
Speaker 2:the highest you've worked with.
Speaker 3:The highest I've worked with was probably Russell and the highest I've probably worked with he would have like an in-season $150,000 to $200,000 budget for that particular season.
Speaker 1:It's like $1,000 for the 78 games.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I feel like you guys have both butchered the amount of games in the NBA. You said 91.
Speaker 1:I said 91. 82.
Speaker 3:How many are there again?
Speaker 1:82. Close enough. How many is in NFL?
Speaker 3:No, not 16 anymore, 18. Now I said why did I say 91? Are there extra games that I count pre?
Speaker 2:Not. Did I count pre, not counted pre.
Speaker 1:Post. I don't know, Don't post that Styling for like that season or whatever. Do they ever wear that stuff again?
Speaker 2:Like that $200,000?. Yes, it's recyclable Is it. You can wear stuff.
Speaker 3:Listen, I know stylists that literally like I'm cleaning out closets every month, but then I also know ones that are like oh my god, like my client will not clean out his closet, so like I'll be like a jack black where he's like his scene at lax and like the same shirt yeah, oh, judah's in that harley shirt yet again if if you had a style, any historical figure, anyone or fictional character, who would it be?
Speaker 2:This is a question Judah prompted.
Speaker 3:No, of course it is, of course it is. We love this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Jeremiah couldn't come up with that creativity. I couldn't come up with that.
Speaker 3:I am going to say Cleopatra, is that Bob?
Speaker 1:No, that's a great answer.
Speaker 3:I mean, I don't know what I would necessarily put her in. I still think that I would again stay true to her roots, right know where she came from, be able to pivot that. So, whether it's like all those crazy, like dramatic, like jewels and everything that she could have possibly worn, I would do that times a thousand, I would probably put her in something super sexy.
Speaker 3:Even if she's a thousand years old, I would not care. I'd be like she's going to be dripping in this low-cut, J-Lo looking dress and just be decked in feathers.
Speaker 2:What would you want to do, Judith? You had to style somebody.
Speaker 1:If I could style anyone in history with my style, with your style, I'll tell you what moses would look. Pretty sweet and some levi pardon that red sea.
Speaker 2:You're going biblical, you're on moses, you're way back.
Speaker 3:I mean, dude, if we're gonna style someone he said styling levi is parting the red sea is comedy, that's right.
Speaker 1:It'd be so rad like imagine joseph in the colored raincoat, right yeah, a bowed one yeah be, pretty set.
Speaker 3:I mean basically brad pitt with long hair. Who would you? Who would you?
Speaker 2:like einstein you kind of do the sweaters and the loafer vibe, you know I'm into that I think like swagging out einstein, like what would you throw him in? I don't know there's some. I don't know why I'm even saying einstein. I just could see the dude's like swag dad. He's like yeah, smart mathematician, like oh yeah, there's some drip.
Speaker 1:For some reason I just picture professor like professor, that's what I'm saying I just pictured him in departmental with like that red puffer jacket departmental got some wild, they do.
Speaker 2:I love it in there it's probably my favorite store in LA to shop at. It's great For designers Because they have a lot of boutique brands you just can't find anywhere else they do, they do.
Speaker 3:Have you done Terminal 27 yet?
Speaker 2:My boy owns it. I haven't been. Really, are we going to talk offline? You're working on your own line.
Speaker 3:I am man, Are you?
Speaker 2:able to disclose the name of it. Yet when are we at yes? Where are we at yes?
Speaker 3:yes, yes, I am designing my own brand. It's been around since 2018, so I've honestly just picked it back up. It is called Color by Virtue, color by Virtue Love that. And it is men's and women's, but it is going to be like small capsule collections. So I'm looking forward to it because my last capsule collection that everyone knew I did a women's line for amazon and I had a collaboration with amazon, the drop and that did incredible like what is?
Speaker 1:what does that mean? That, like like the release, you said uh, capsule, yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 3:that capsule collection will be like a small collection so it won't necessarily be.
Speaker 3:No, it'll keep coming per season, but I won't like hit a retail calendar, so it won't necessarily be like spring, summer, fall, et cetera, et cetera. It'll be like drop one, drop two, drop three, and that is mainly because of the oversaturation of the market right now. Like, everyone in the world wants to be designers, but I really want Color by Virtue, to kind of live within its virtue, like I think that, like my main goal is to give back to students that are looking to design, so a portion of the profits will go to them and design schools, because, sadly enough, fidm is like starting to go down and a lot of schools are. I think that trade schools are something that we're all gonna miss eventually because the artists are flourishing but then a lot of people just feel like they don't have to go to school yeah, and this has been such a historical time for people of color in fashion.
Speaker 2:Yes, when you look at how many brands there are across men and women, you know what you're doing. You got sammy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know you have wales bonner yeah, you know, there's a lot of us, it's really dope.
Speaker 2:You got Tremaine over at Denim Tears.
Speaker 3:You got Jerry.
Speaker 2:Lorenzo, fear of God, you got.
Speaker 3:Ruge.
Speaker 2:Pharrell's got Cactus Plant Feed Market. He's Louis Vuitton now. Virgil kind of like was the first real breakthrough would you say yeah, I would.
Speaker 3:I would. I would say that for the black community in particular, it was nice for us to finally have recognition. Now I will say that women are still dealing with an issue now where, especially like women of color, where there aren't a lot of creative directors at the heads of these brands that are females, and it's kind of sad because you recognize that they are making women apparel. So it's like why would you not have women at the head of these brands?
Speaker 2:100%.
Speaker 3:Unless they are starting their own brands.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't be surprised if someone gives the keys to Wales. Someone's going to give the keys to her. I love everything she does, yeah.
Speaker 3:And Only is great too, and Only Child, you would love them.
Speaker 1:Really yeah, yeah, yeah, that name yeah yeah, an only child it's very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, ham, we appreciate you having your own. We love you. Thank you so much for coming.
Speaker 3:This is thank you guys for having me such a great time.
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