Fun Facts

• During the 8-hour manufacturing process of Spanx hosiery products, more than 40 women touch each pair.
• Sara Blakely carried an old-fashioned Eastpack from the early 1990s to her first SPANX sales meeting at Neiman Marcus. While her friends begged her to swap the lucky red backpack for a Prada bag, she had no shame. It’s still her lucky bag, although the buyer at Neiman’s seeing Sara in SPANX may have worked more than the backpack – She showed off the SPANX under her white pants, and the buyer immediately said, “I’ll buy 3,000 pairs.”
• Even in the midst of an economic downturn, luxury retailers who were most affected sold out of a year’s supply of Haute Contour by SPANX, the Dessert of Shapewear, within two months. When asked about the success of SPANX in the midst of a recession, founder Sara Blakely said, “Any item that makes women look and feel their best is recession proof.”
• It took more than three years and 100 prototypes to create SPANX Bra-llelujah! Underwire Contour, now many top retailers’ best-selling bra.
• After kick-starting a shapewear revolution, the company now makes more than 200 figure-fixing products – from back-fat busting bras to bum-boosting bodysuits.
• Over 36,000 body-shapers are manufactured each day.
• To date, more than 5.4 million Spanx Power Panties have been sold worldwide – when Oprah announced she’d “given up panties” and only wore Spanx, more than 20,000 pairs were sold that day alone.
• Daniel Lawson, costume designer for U.S. drama Lipstick Jungle, dressed the show's entire cast in Spanx, saying “They take off five, eight pounds immediately!”
• A Nordstrom employee encouraged our Spanx for Men efforts by telling us how often he sells Hide & Sleek camisoles to his male customers!
• The high-waisted designs have a double-cotton crotch to make life easier when nature calls.
• Women around the world can get their SPANX on! We’re currently selling in Singapore, South Korea, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Philippines, Caribbean, Hong Kong, Mexico, Austria, Australia, and Canada.
• At Spanx, in addition to a Board of Directors…we have a Board of Fun!
• Spanx tests every product on woman of all shapes and sizes to ensure the perfect fit. And, every Spanx-ster gets to wear test and fit products before they are in production.
• Of our 90 employees, 12 are men.
• Founded in 2000, Spanx is headquartered in Atlanta.