Brooke LaMantia

Brooke LaMantia writes about the places where fashion, objects, and internet culture meet, with a particular focus on how trends and taste play out in everyday life. At The Cut, she works on the editorial side and contributes pieces across shopping, culture, and style, often zeroing in on small visual details and niche online moments rather than runway coverage alone.

New York’s corner of the fashion world

LaMantia’s fashion writing often looks closely at specific people and scenes rather than the abstract idea of “the industry.” In a Cut piece titled “New York’s corner of the fashion world,” she homes in on a particular slice of the city’s style ecosystem, framing it as its own distinct pocket within a larger global fashion map. She uses that kind of tightly defined setting to show how scenes, friendships, and local references shape what fashion looks like on the ground.

Her article “What Are Connor Storrie and Madonna Talking About?” follows the same instinct to zoom in on a single exchange and treat it as a cultural text, asking what a brief conversation between a fashion-world figure and a global pop icon reveals about status, taste, and connection. Rather than treating celebrity sightings as throwaway moments, she uses them to explore how people inside and outside fashion read meaning into images and clips. Across this work, her through-line is close observation: small gestures, short videos, and tightly drawn spaces become ways to talk about how fashion is lived, not just produced.

Trinkets, collectibles, and #TrinketTok

Objects themselves are a recurring subject. In The Cut’s social coverage, LaMantia is introduced as the site’s resident “trinket” expert, speaking to a #TrinketTok audience about holiday gifting and the personalities expressed through small decorative things. That role signals a beat built around the emotional life of objects — what people’s shelves, keychains, and tchotchkes say about them, and why certain tiny items become shared obsessions online.

Her trinket work sits at the intersection of style, shopping, and internet culture. Instead of treating accessories and collectibles purely as consumer goods, she treats them as clues to identity and aesthetics, unpacking what it means when a certain candle, figurine, or charm becomes ubiquitous on TikTok. This lens lets her translate micro-aesthetics and niche trends into stories that explain why people care about them in the first place.

Personal style and the anxiety of sameness

LaMantia also writes about personal style with a self-aware, first-person edge. A profile in 34th Street Magazine notes that a Cut article of hers took on the “death of personal style,” describing her experience of looking around and seeing versions of her own look everywhere. That framing puts her inside the story as someone who has participated in the very trends she is dissecting, and who is now questioning what originality means when algorithms and mood boards flatten taste.

In this part of her work, she writes less like a distant critic and more like a participant-observer, drawing on her own reactions to sameness, repetition, and the pressure to keep up. She uses familiar reference points — Pinterest, social feeds, and the circulation of specific outfits or aesthetics — to ask how much of our style is chosen and how much is copied. The result is fashion writing that is both introspective and diagnostic, attentive to the emotional undercurrent of getting dressed in an era of endlessly recycled inspiration.

Shopping, fitness, and cross-vertical service writing

Alongside her culture and fashion work at The Cut, LaMantia has a service-oriented track record in adjacent outlets. She is described as a culture and fashion freelance writer whose work has appeared not only in The Cut but also in Cosmopolitan, W Magazine, InStyle, NYLON, and other lifestyle titles, extending her perspective across multiple style-focused audiences. Across these bylines, she consistently sits at the intersection of what people buy, how they present themselves, and how those choices are shaped by media and trend cycles.

She also writes for Shape, where she specializes in fitness topics, bringing the same accessible, reader-facing tone to movement and training that she uses for style and shopping. That fitness work adds another dimension to her portfolio: she is practiced at breaking down practical information and recommendations while keeping an eye on how bodies, health, and aesthetics are talked about in contemporary culture. Taken together, her roles across publications show a writer who moves fluidly between reported fashion features, internet-culture explainers, and service pieces, with a consistent interest in how people construct identity through clothes, objects, and routines.