10 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2025 of the pandemic threatened, at first, to plunge the company into bankruptcy. With department stores closing, Mejia and Rovito had warehouses stocked with product and nowhere to sell it. They were left with one option: ramp up their online business and sell directly to consumers. The gambit paid off when, come Mother’s Day, people were flocking to the Eberjey website to buy lockdown-ameliorating PJs. “I think, through Covid, it really became this comfort food,” Chartouni said. From the perspective of Jade Dennis ’27, a fashion editor at the RE student newspaper (The Catalyst), who has interviewed Mejia and written about the brand, the appeal of Eberjeys was also about elevating life at home: feeling comfortable in style. “Because everybody was at home, people wanted to feel at least a little dressed up. You’re not going to dinner. You’re not putting on heels and a cute outfit, but you’re putting on your Eberjeys and drinking your coffee and feeling a little bit like you have something,” Dennis said. Today, Eberjey has reached the kind of saturation point that most brands can only dream of. Generations of international consumers and RE community members – parents, students, faculty – are obsessed with it. “Everybody knows Eberjey. I love my Eberjeys, They’re the softest pajamas ever,” Dennis said. “[Mejia] had an idea, and she executed it very well, and it’s inspiring because it’s somebody I know who went to RE. As a student, that’s pretty cool to see.” In December 2024, Mejia and Rovito stood in Times Square and watched a digital billboard for the brand splash across a set of towering, 16-story screens. What brought them pride was not just the fact that their brand was in Times Square. The ad was strikingly wholesome: a family in matching red PJs, laughing together on Christmas morning. “We were up there with a photo of a family connecting and being themselves, not in a Victoria’s Secret-like, catalog-y pose. The ad carried a different energy,” Mejia said. Now, while serving as creative advisor at Eberjey’s global headquarters in Coral Gables (Eberjey also has a retail store at the Shops at Merrick Park) Mejia has turned her focus to the concept of creativity itself, which she reflects on in Instagram posts and an upcoming children’s book called The Butterfly Studio. To her, creativity is softness, and softness isn’t just a physical sensation; it’s a metaphor for the kind of openness to the inner voice, the creative spark inside, that ended up propelling her unorthodox career path. For me, softness is leaning into what my heart really wanted,” Mejia said, “letting it guide me toward my passion and, ultimately, my purpose.” Eberjey employees enjoy a Mother’s Day retreat in the Hamptons
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