On November 12, 2025, Kim Kardashian’s apparel company Skims closed a fresh $225 million funding round that values the business at roughly $5 billion, a deal that Forbes says added about $200 million to Kardashian’s personal fortune. This is not fluff — major financial institutions piled in, signaling serious confidence in a brand built in a free market.
That the alternative-investment arm of Goldman Sachs led the round shows that traditional capital markets still back winners when they deliver results, not narratives. Conservatives should applaud investors who put money behind products people actually buy, rather than subsidizing yet another ideological boondoggle. The fact that institutional money is betting on Skims is proof that profit, not politics, drives growth.
Forbes now pegs Kardashian’s net worth at about $1.9 billion, with her Skims stake accounting for the lion’s share of that wealth; she remains the chief creative force behind the brand’s expansion. The move from a shapewear startup into a full lifestyle label is textbook American entrepreneurship — recognition that innovation and branding can turn an idea into real economic value.
Skims isn’t resting on past hype; it’s on track to clear $1 billion in net sales this year and is aggressively expanding its retail footprint and product lines, including an activewear tie-up with Nike and consolidation of SKKN beauty under the Skims umbrella. Practical business expansion like that creates jobs, pays taxes, and strengthens communities — everything the left complains about while trying to punish success. Investors rewarded that trajectory with hard capital, not Twitter approval.
This raising continues a trend of venture capital flowing to celebrity-founded consumer brands that actually sell — think Fenty or other names that turned fame into factories and payrolls. It’s a good reminder that influence combined with execution yields results, and markets will reward companies that show sustainable sales growth. If you believe in a free society, you should be cheering when private capital validates entrepreneurial achievement.
There have been noise campaigns and boycotts around celebrity business moves in the past, yet Skims has weathered criticism and kept growing, even while planning international expansion. That’s as it should be: brands answer to customers, not to mob-driven cancel campaigns or virtue-signaling corporations. Conservatives should stand against economic bullying and for the right of companies and founders to operate without being blackmailed by online outrage.
At a time when too many in power want to tax, regulate, or morally shame success, Skims’ latest funding round is a welcome affirmation of American enterprise. Celebrate the jobs, the stores, and the hardworking teams behind that valuation, and resist the envy-driven calls to punish creators simply because they win. If you believe in opportunity, you believe Skims’ rise is precisely the kind of success story worth defending.
