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title: "Lunya: An innovative sleepwear brand scales to $25m | Trends by The Hustle"
description: Lunya focuses on “off-hours wear.” Inexpensive, situational pajamas were out (goodbye, fleece pants with Santa Claus on them). Premium fabrics and innovative designs were in.
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# [Lunya: An innovative sleepwear brand scales to $25m | Trends by The Hustle](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/ebook/articles/lunya)

 Written by [Aja Frost @ajavuu](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/ebook/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) | Feb 17, 2020 8:21:08 AM

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In 2012, Ashley Merrill found herself going to sleep wearing an outfit she had donned hundreds of times before: her husband’s oversized clothes. She was finally tired of it. *Is this what it’s going to be?*, she asked herself.

Merrill wanted more. But the market was flooded with sleepwear that didn’t feel right — too sexual, or too matronly, or not functional enough. So in 2014, she created “the ultimate business-school project.” A new kind of sleepwear brand.

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