United Kingdom
Venetia La Manna is a London-based British-Italian slow fashion campaigner, presenter, and digital creator whose work sits at the intersection of fashion, environmental activism, and political advocacy.
Total Followers -0.2%
631K
Across Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
470K followers · 74% of audience
Engagement
16.9%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
Est. $7K–$16K / IG post
In a January 2025 Substack essay, she revealed receiving multiple death threats in 2024 following her pro-Palestine solidarity content, and described stepping back from social media entirely to protect her mental health.
Her paid newsletter community continued to grow, reaching over 10,000 subscribers and charting among Substack's top rising publications in the fashion and beauty category.
| Window | TikTok | Combined | ||
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| Last 7 days | +0 +0.0% | -113 -0.1% | +0 +0.0% | -113 |
| Last 30 days | -1174 -0.3% | -307 -0.2% | +0 +0.0% | -1481 |
| Last 90 days | +6K +1.3% | -905 -0.6% | +0 +0.0% | +5K |
| Last 365 days | +6K +1.3% | -905 -0.6% | +0 +0.0% | +5K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
Venetia La Manna is a London-based British-Italian slow fashion campaigner, presenter, and digital creator whose work sits at the intersection of fashion, environmental activism, and political advocacy. Rather than positioning herself as a conventional style influencer, she built her following around a clear ideological stance: challenging the fast fashion industry and championing charity shopping, secondhand styling, and systemic change. Her content—rooted in vintage aesthetics, campaign-driven hashtags like #BoycottZara and #FairOnThePlanet, and regular calls for corporate accountability—distinguishes her sharply from the broader fashion creator space. She serves as the UK representative for the #SpeakVolumes campaign, which pushes for greater fabric transparency in the industry, and produces a newsletter titled 'Slowly Does It', extending her platform beyond social media into a more direct-reader relationship.
Her audience skews young and predominantly female, with a strong UK base supplemented by significant reach into the United States—an important signal for international advocacy campaigns and ethical brands seeking English-speaking markets. The standout characteristic of her channel is engagement: her Instagram rate runs well above ten times the category median, reflecting a community that is ideologically aligned rather than passively scrolling. This makes her a compelling fit for purpose-driven brands, certified sustainable labels, and NGO-adjacent campaigns rather than mainstream retail. With her TikTok presence having gone quiet and Instagram growth plateauing, her trajectory in 2026 appears oriented toward consolidating influence through newsletters, partnerships, and campaign work rather than raw follower growth—a model increasingly common among activist creators who prioritise depth of community over scale.
Venetia-La-Manna reaches an audience concentrated in United Kingdom primarily through Instagram, and is best activated via Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. As a fashion creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. With no brand deals logged yet, they read as an available, category-aligned partner for advertisers building early presence in the space. Engagement on Instagram runs around 16.9%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of Instagram Reels and Stories and TikTok branded content lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows fashion content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For United Kingdom-focused brands in fashion and related categories, Venetia-La-Manna offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Venetia-La-Manna's tier (Mid, 631K combined followers, United Kingdom). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Fair fashion goes beyond eco-friendly materials to focus on equitable pay, safe conditions, and workers' rights throughout the fashion supply chain. Venetia La Manna uses this framing deliberately to distinguish her activism from general sustainability content, centering systemic and political change — living wages, corporate accountability, and legislation — rather than individual shopping swaps.
Slowly Does It is Venetia La Manna's own newsletter, which she names directly in her Instagram bio. It reflects her slow fashion and intentional living philosophy, giving subscribers a longer-form, editorial space for the ideas she can't fully explore in social media posts. It's one of the primary ways she engages her audience outside of Instagram and TikTok.
Venetia La Manna lists her role as UK representative of #SpeakVolumes in her Instagram bio, making it one of her most formally titled advocacy positions. The campaign sits within her fair fashion world and uses her platform to direct UK audiences toward the movement's goals around ethical consumption and garment worker visibility. Her high domestic UK audience reach makes her a natural fit for a national representative role.
Venetia La Manna uses #BoycottZara as part of her broader campaigning against fast fashion brands she believes perpetuate overproduction, poor labour conditions, and environmental harm. Zara's parent company Inditex is one of the world's largest fashion conglomerates, making it a frequent target for activists who argue systemic change requires consumer and political pressure on major industry players.
Microplastics shed from synthetic fabrics like polyester during washing are a core part of Venetia La Manna's campaigning, connecting the fashion industry directly to plastic pollution in waterways and ecosystems. She advocates through movements like #BreakFreeFromPlastic and supports a binding global plastics treaty, arguing that structural solutions from brands and governments are needed — not just individual consumer choices.
The global plastics treaty is a UN-negotiated international agreement aimed at ending plastic pollution across industries, with textiles and fashion being a significant contributor through synthetic fibre microplastics. Venetia La Manna uses the #PlasticsTreaty hashtag to push for binding commitments from governments and corporations, framing it as essential legislation rather than a voluntary industry initiative.
Venetia La Manna used the #NopalantirInTheNHS hashtag in opposition to the controversial award of a major NHS data contract to Palantir Technologies, a US surveillance and data analytics company, which raised widespread concern in the UK about patient data privacy and corporate access to public healthcare infrastructure. Her engagement with this cause shows she uses her platform for broader social justice issues well beyond fashion. It reflects a pattern of amplifying UK political campaigns to her predominantly British core audience.
#NextCanAffordIt targets Next, one of the UK's largest fashion retailers, arguing the company has the financial capacity to pay garment workers fairly and meet higher ethical standards but chooses not to prioritise it. For Venetia La Manna, calling out specific named brands by name is a deliberate tactic — it directs public pressure at identifiable corporations rather than keeping critique abstract.
Yes — Venetia La Manna does take selective partnerships, directing all commercial enquiries to her email as listed in her bio, and she has used the #GiftedStay hashtag to transparently disclose when accommodation is provided by a brand. This suggests she partners with travel or hospitality brands she considers values-aligned, which is consistent with how many ethical-content creators operate — vetting collaborators against their advocacy principles rather than refusing brand work entirely.
Venetia La Manna is based in the United Kingdom, which accounts for the largest share of her following, with a significant secondary audience in the United States. Her audience skews heavily female and concentrates in the mid-twenties to mid-thirties age range — a demographic with strong documented interest in ethical consumerism, slow living, and sustainability advocacy.
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