Inside the Creative Process: Community Feedback & Fast Fashion

Something Navy was first established by Arielle Charnas as an influencer. Its quick ascent and ensuing difficulties demonstrated the difficulties of fast fashion as well as the advantages and disadvantages of establishing a brand around an online personality. Something Navy was sold in a “fire sale” after experiencing problems with quality, design piracy, and financial … Read more

The Mommy & Me Drops: When Fashion Followed Family Life

Fashion has always been society’s barometer. Mommy & Me fashion over the last few years is one of our favorite (not to mention financially productive) trends. Fashion went sentimental, mixing trend with togetherness and design with domesticity style must have been the price of put-your-soul-into-it sentimentality. It’s not merely a transient whim but an entire … Read more

⁠Managing Success: Investor Funding and Brand Valuation @ Something Navy

Brands are not created anymore in today’s hyper-competitive world, they’re financed and tendered to; strategically expanded. Going from startup to scale-up and then becoming an industry leader requires more than innovation, it means keeping capital efficient with a steady image accruing numbers. The fit between investment capital and the value of a brand is also … Read more