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Nasty Gal
Nasty Gal is an American women's fashion brand founded in 2006 by Sophia Amoruso as an eBay vintage store, grown to about $100 million in sales, bankrupt in 2016, sold to Boohoo for $20 million in 2017 and to WSG Brands for $16 million in 2026.
Natacha Rambova
Natacha Rambova, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, was an American ballet dancer, Hollywood art director and costume designer for Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino, later a fashion designer and Egyptologist with the Bollingen Foundation.
Natasha Museveni Karugire
Natasha Museveni Karugire is a Ugandan fashion designer and filmmaker. She founded House of Kaine in 2003 and published the memoir What's in a name: Kainembabazi in 2020.
National Film Award for Best Costume Design
National Film Award for Best Costume Design: annual Indian feature-film costume award with a Rajat Kamal medal and cash prize; latest winners Deepali Noor and Sheetal Sharma for Pushpa 2: The Rule (72nd edition, 2024 films).
National symbols of Scotland
National symbols of Scotland: the Saltire flag of St Andrew, the thistle, the unicorn, the Lion Rampant, tartan, and St Andrew, with their histories and role in Scottish identity.
National Wool Museum
National Wool Museum: name shared by the Welsh national woollen-industry museum at Dre-fach Felindre (established 1984 by Amgueddfa Cymru, reopened 2004) and the Geelong, Australia museum opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1988 in an 1872 woolstore.
Nats Getty
Nats Getty (born Natalia Williams, 1992) is an American model, painter, and LGBTQ rights activist of the Getty oil family, founder of the unisex streetwear brand Strike Oil (2018), husband of trans YouTuber Gigi Gorgeous, and out as trans nonbinary since January 2021.
Natural fiber
Natural fibers are plant, animal, or mineral-origin fibers such as cotton, flax, jute, and wool, used in textiles and composites. Key facts: renewable and biodegradable but water- and variability-limited; polyester holds 54% of fiber output; natural fiber composites cut GWP 20–50% versus glass fiber.
Navajo weaving
Navajo weaving, also called Navajo rug or blanket making, is the hand-loomed textile tradition of the Diné (Navajo) people, practiced since the early 1600s on an upright loom.
Navel piercing
Navel (belly button) piercing: jewelry worn through the rim above the navel. One of the most common non-earlobe piercings, slow to heal (about 9-12 months) due to waistband friction, prone to infection, migration, and rejection.
Navy blue
Navy blue is a very dark blue named for the dark blue officer uniforms the British Royal Navy introduced in April 1748, based on indigo-dyed fashionable dress; standard digital value #000080, distinct from midnight blue (#191970).
Nazca pottery
Nazca pottery, also spelled Nasca pottery, is the polychrome slip-painted ceramic ware of the Nasca culture of pre-Hispanic Peru, made from about 200 BCE to 650 CE.
Nazi chic
Nazi chic: the use of Third Reich uniform styles, symbols, and imagery in fashion, from Nazi-era propaganda clothing to punk/goth shock wear, coded extremist brands (Lonsdale, Thor Steinar), and controversial runway and retail designs.
Ndop cloth
Ndop cloth is a hand-woven, indigo resist-dyed textile of West Africa, originally from Wukari, Nigeria, and the emblematic prestige cloth of the Grassfields chiefdoms of western Cameroon.
Neck ring
Neck ring: rigid band worn around the neck, best known as the Celtic and Iron Age torc; also Kayan brass coils up to 3 kg, Miao silver rings, and Viking twisted rings.
Necklace
Necklace: ornament worn around the neck as chains or strands of beads, pearls, or stones, often with a pendant; includes chokers, dog collars, torques, and sautoirs; Getty AAT 300046001.
Necktie
The necktie is a long strip of fabric knotted at the collar, descending from the cravat worn by Croatian mercenaries in seventeenth-century France. Jesse Langsdorf's 1922 bias-cut patent fixed its modern construction; it has declined as workwear and revived as fashion.
Neckwear
Neckwear is the class of accessories worn about the neck, including the cravat, ruff, collar, stock, tie, and scarf, with the necktie the best-known form.
Needlepoint
Needlepoint, also called canvaswork, is counted-thread embroidery on stiff open-weave canvas, traditionally in wool tent stitch, covering the whole surface; distinct from cross stitch and from loom-woven tapestry.
Negligee
Negligee (French négligée, "neglected"): a light, sheer woman's dressing gown or nightgown worn over nightclothes. From 1680s French négligés and 1750 English borrowing to tea gowns, nylon nuisettes, and sheer red-carpet wear.
Neiman Marcus
Neiman Marcus: Dallas luxury department store chain founded 1907 by Herbert Marcus, Carrie Marcus Neiman, and A.L. Neiman; known for ready-to-wear fashion, the Christmas Book Fantasy Gifts, and later Saks Global ownership and bankruptcies.
Neisha Crosland
Neisha Crosland, British textile and surface pattern designer RCA-trained, launched via Osborne & Little's Star wallpaper (1986), runs her own label since 1994, RDI 2006, author of Life of a Pattern (2016).
Nena von Schlebrügge
Nena von Schlebrügge (Birgitte Caroline, born 1941, Mexico City) is a Swedish-German fashion model of the 1950s-1960s for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, ex-wife of Timothy Leary, wife of Robert Thurman, and mother of actress Uma Thurman.
Netsuke (根付)
Netsuke (根付) are small Japanese carved toggles, 3–5 cm, anchoring cords of sagemono pouches to the kimono sash. Developed in Edo-period Genroku era; declined after Meiji Westernization and became Western collectibles; major collections at Tokyo National Museum.
New Balance
New Balance: Boston-based athletic footwear and apparel company founded in 1906 by William Riley, privately held by the Davis family since 1972; $9.2 billion 2025 sales, US and UK factories, wide width range, 990 heritage line.
New half (ニューハーフ)
New half (ニューハーフ) is wasei-eigo for men who live or present as women, especially in Japanese entertainment, show pubs, and the adult industry. Coined around 1980-81 via Betty and Matsubara Rumiko; Japan-specific, not an international term.
Newsboy cap
The newsboy cap, also called the Gatsby cap or baker boy hat, is a soft, round, paneled cap historically worn by working-class men and newsboys.
Nickel (United States coin)
The nickel is the United States five-cent coin, an alloy of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel produced by the United States Mint for circulation since 1866.
Nicky Hilton
Nicky Hilton (Nicholai Olivia Hilton Rothschild), American designer and socialite, younger sister of Paris Hilton, great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton; founded Chick and Nicholai lines, wrote 365 Style, and married James Rothschild in 2015.
Nicola McLean
Nicola McLean (born 1981, London) is an English glamour model and TV personality, a Page 3 model for The Sun and Daily Star, known for I'm a Celebrity 2008 and Celebrity Big Brother 2012 and 2017.