Press

The height of fashion blogger Coco Perez  features My Ugly Christmas Sweater in his article "Ugly Christmas Sweaters are all the Rage for the Holidays" 12/24/10.
...There's even one seller that dedicates her entire eBay store to [holiday sweaters]! Appropriately titled My Ugly Christmas Sweater, offers an array of sweaters that light up, sparkle, and make you go "eww".

Rachel Dodes featured MyUglyChristmasSweater.com in the Wall Street Journal article titled "Sweaters: Frightful or Festive?" 12/22/10
"The website myuglychristmassweater.com boasts a "contest winning" collection of "hideously ugly" sweaters."

The New York Times showcased photos of ugly Christmas sweaters that reader's submitted December 30, 2010. Their 'Extreme Holiday Sweaters' featured several Christmas Sweaters from My Ugly Christmas Sweater.

The Art Institute (Ai insite) interviewed us here at My Ugly Christmas Sweater for their 11/26/10 article.
"Anne Marie Blackman, president of My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc., says that adding an ugly Christmas sweater theme to a holiday party makes it more fun and exciting."

The Atlantic talks about Christmas sweaters:  The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Still Ugly, but No Longer Ironic. My Ugly Christmas Sweater is noted to highlight contest winners.

Lauren Simonetti interviews Anne Marie Blackman from My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc. on Fox Business Network on how she took the growing trend to a new level. 12/21/2012

Bloomberg Businessweek reports on the big business of ugly Christmas sweaters, and features sweaters from My Ugly Christmas Sweater, including our Sledding Cat and Naughty sweaters.

My Ugly Christmas Sweater founder Anne Marie Blackman, three customers, and fellow Christmas sweater aficionado Jody Mulkey participated in an Ugly Christmas Sweater fashion show on ABC's The View 12/24/2009.

My Ugly Christmas Sweater launches Sweaters4Troops charitable campaign, pledging to donate 500 holiday sweaters to U.S. troops serving overseas. (2014)

Anne Marie Blackman discusses the success of My Ugly Christmas Sweater in an article on The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) website titled How Did Your Business Capitalize on a Fad?

 

CEO Blog Nation interviewed Anne Marie Blackman as one of 15 entrepreneurs and asked Why Did You Start Your Business?

Katie Couric rocked an ugly Christmas sweater from My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc. on her show December 2012

The New York Times ugly Christmas Sweater slide show featured our book Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater (authors Anne Marie Blackman and Brian Clark Howard), and also sweaters and dresses from My Ugly Christmas Sweater.  12/16/2012

Guy Trebay from The New York Times interviewed Anne Marie Blackman of My Ugly Christmas Sweater®, Inc. for the Sunday Fashion Section front page feature article "Bad Taste, All in Fun".
"Five years ago, a stay-at-home mom from a Vermont ski town decided to put her prehistoric computer-science degree to use, gaming Google trending algorithms to start a business. "I was looking for something to sell on eBay to put my kids through college," said Anne Marie Blackman, the owner of My Ugly Christmas Sweater. I did research on what was trending. Ugly Christmas Sweaters were it." 12/14/2012

Jon Kelly from the BBC News interviewed Anne Marie Blackman about her ugly Christmas sweater business in his article The Rise of Ironic Christmas Jumpers.
"Anne Marie Blackman, 52, of Vermont, sells sweaters online. I had never heard of ugly Christmas sweaters but I found out that there were these contests people would have to wear the ugliest. I thought, this is right up my alley. I could make sweaters that were even uglier."

Cosmopolitan included a 'crazy cat lady'  ugly Christmas sweater dress from My Ugly Christmas Sweater® in their '5 ways to style that ugly Christmas sweater' article. Seventeen picked up on the same fab cat dress! Finally...high fashion is embracing our holiday finery.

Bethenny Frankel wore a classic dress embellished from My Ugly Christmas Sweater® on her show. This ugly Christmas sweater dress has a crafty macrame tree decoration with real working lights! 

 

Anne Marie Blackman, founder of My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc., hosted an ugly Christmas sweater fashion show on Fox & Friends

My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc. founder Anne Marie Blackman interview for Bplans article 30 Reasons to Start a Business.

The folks in New Zealand have caught on to our sweaters and included a couple in their article 9 worst Christmas sweaters ever. We'll take that as a compliment.

Minnesota Public Radio MPR NEWS reports on My Ugly Christmas Sweater and the art of Creating the Christmas Sweater