--- title: Whoopi Goldberg Is Now Making 'Ugly' Christmas Sweaters description: The irreverent comedian's new fashion venture with Lord & Taylor features holiday sweaters that are kitschy and full of character. canonical: https://time.com/4528104/whoopi-goldberg-inclusive-christmas-sweaters/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-12T17:49:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:33.930Z og:title: Whoopi Goldberg's Christmas Sweaters Show Two Santas Kissing og:description: The comedian's fashion venture is just as interesting as you'd expect. og:url: https://time.com/4528104/whoopi-goldberg-inclusive-christmas-sweaters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Whoopi Goldberg's Christmas Sweaters Show Two Santas Kissing twitter:description: The comedian's fashion venture is just as interesting as you'd expect. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Black Santa and a White Santa Kiss on Whoopi Goldberg’s Inclusive New Christmas Sweater Designs > Sponsored content. 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And with [Whoopi Goldberg’s](http://time.com/4487382/whoopi-goldberg-opening-ceremony-fashion-show/?iid=sr-link1) fun new festive sweater collection, dressing up for those ugly sweater parties will be a snap this season. The _View_ host, [marijuana entrepreneur](http://time.com/4276374/whoopi-goldberg-medical-marijuana/?iid=sr-link2), and quirky comedian partnered with Lord & Taylor to produce a line of, well, very unusual holiday-themed sweaters—but don’t call them “ugly,” Goldberg warns. “Mine are kind of ‘funny Christmas sweaters’ or ‘Christmas sweaters with a twist,'” [she explained to _Vogue_](http://www.vogue.com/13491303/whoopi-goldberg-ugly-christmas-sweaters/?mbid=social%5Ftwitter). The kitschy tongue-in-cheek designs are both comic and socially conscious; there are reindeers as dancing Rockettes on one, a turtleneck depicting a happily mixed family on another, and a Hanukkah-themed sweater featuring an octopus as an eight-armed menorah. “It’s basically about how we are all in this together… It’s all in my funny, weird head of things that I like to see. There’s a great one of two Santas kissing, one white Santa and one black Santa, and it’s fantastic. It’s anything that will elicit a smile or an ‘aw’ from you; that’s what I want,” she said. Each of the 11 unisex sweaters has a name (“Bite Me” has a gingerbread man taking a taste of his fellow, for instance), [WWD reports](http://wwd.com/retail-news/department-stores/whoopis-ugly-christmas-sweaters-to-launch-at-lord-taylor-and-hudsons-bay-10658471/), and are priced at $139\. They go on sale Nov. 1\. Goldberg told _Vogue_ will be both a Kwanzaa and Ramadan sweater next year. And this could be just the start of Goldberg’s fashion forays; one peek at her Instagram reveals her [pre-existing penchant for wacky footwear.](https://www.instagram.com/whoopigoldberg/) > [](https://twitter.com/saint%5Fmarche/status/786172396159983616) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4528104/whoopi-goldberg-inclusive-christmas-sweaters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4528104/whoopi-goldberg-inclusive-christmas-sweaters/"},"headline":"A Black Santa and a White Santa Kiss on Whoopi Goldberg’s Inclusive New Christmas Sweater Designs","datePublished":"2016-10-12T17:49:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:33.930Z","description":"\"Christmas sweaters with a twist\"","url":"https://time.com/4528104/whoopi-goldberg-inclusive-christmas-sweaters/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","fashion","Holidays"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4528104/whoopi-goldberg-inclusive-christmas-sweaters/","name":"A Black Santa and a White Santa Kiss on Whoopi Goldberg’s Inclusive New Christmas Sweater Designs"}}]}] ```