This year, I was honored to be nominated for EOY’s Fashion Retail Award. The “Fashion Retail” category recognizes businesses which are committed to innovative practices and positively impacting their community’s economy. We have so much room to continue our growth, and I am incredibly grateful to those that have supported and helped me turn Nena & Co. into what it is today. We are incredibly proud to partner with Artisans worldwide, and we plan on continuing to positively...

Last month, I was able to spend a week in Guatemala with our Artisans. While there, I visited with our Artisan Pom Makers. These women were hired when we introduced the Pom of the Month Club in December 2017. During the last year and half we have been able to employ this amazing team of Pom Makers because of your support of our Pom of the Month Club. Since POTMC debuted, more than 10,000 poms have been created and shipped...

The Convertible Day Bag [CDB] has evolved over the years to reach the high quality, functionality and beautiful silhouette it is now known for. The evolution of the CDB has paralleled my personal life as I went from a globetrotter, to a business woman, to a mother who travels for work!  HERE’S THE STORY… 2013 - The Market Bag Did you know the CDB was inspired by simple bags I found in Guatemalan markets? When I was toying with the...

This is a big deal!!! And it ends with a S.A.L.E. Because our Artisan and H&S Collections sell so quickly each week, we rarely put product on sale. These collections sell fast because they are ethically made hence “slow fashion”. Everything is made by hand with meticulous detail, so we sell in small batches with very little extra inventory. You most likely knew all that! We calculate raw materials as accurately as possible to avoid waste and to stick to...

  Each month we find a woman we admire to represent the monthly H&S bag, but as we searched for the Icon (person) to represent “Womanhood,” it dawned on me that not one woman can represent us all. We needed more women from different backgrounds, different problems, different perspectives, and different victories; because although we as women have so much in common, we are also so unique and special, and that needed to be represented.   Meet our Womanhood Icons...

INTRODUCING OUR “Olio COLLECTION” AND “VESTIGE COLLECTION” AS PART OF OUR ZERO WASTE INITIATIVE   I’d like to Introduce the Zero-Waste Collection from Nena & Co. Thoughtfully curated, these new designer pieces are derived from repurposed materials, leaving a smaller footprint on our planet. We at Nena & Co. are passionate about sustainability within the fashion industry. As a company, we provide artisans around the world opportunities for sustainable work and we have recently implemented a zero-waste policy to eliminate...