Women's Fashion Brands N

Welcome to the N section of the Women's Fashion Brands directory. In this area of the fashion brand directory you will find women's fashion brands from leading apparel companies and fashion designers that begin with the letter N: 9 brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below, from Nanette Lepore to Norma Kamali. N is the directory's New York letter at heart - a bohemian designer sewing sheets into gowns, a brand named for 9 West 57th Street, an inventor working out of her own sample room - with the world's leading athletic company set down among them.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter N and is not listed in this section, please let us know. And if you prefer to search by clothing category rather than by a specific clothing brand, the Clothes Guide linked from this page organises the same wardrobe by garment instead of by name. Every profile in this letter sets out its facts plainly - founding dates, ownership changes and the founders' own words - with shopping guidance built around them. Two profiles are brief: Necessary Objects, with only its name, city and audience recorded, and Nick & Nora, filed under a misspelled filename.

Nine Brands: Bohemian Dresses, Nautical Heritage, Performance and Invention

The letter opens with designers: Nanette Lepore, the Youngstown-born, New York-based bohemian whose gypsy-influenced, bold-print dresses New York magazine called good-time-girly but not overly frilly; Nautica, David Chu's 1983 nautical label, bought by State-O-Maine in 1984, renamed into its buyer's own name in 1994 and VF-owned since 2003, celebrating the water in every category; and Necessary Objects Ltd., the New York women's and young ladies' brand. Nick & Nora follows - Linda Rae Tepper and Steven Abrams's sleepwear label, grown out of their mid-1970s Ruby Slippers antique clothing store and expanded in the 1980s, continued in spirit by Tepper Jackson's geometric colour from January 2004.

The middle of the letter is collaboration and classicism: Nicky Hilton, whose dated product record runs from a 2004 clothing line and Samantha Thavasa handbags through the higher-priced Nicholai line shown at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in 2007, art deco costume jewelry in 2010, eLuxe in 2014, Linea Pelle handbags in 2015 and the Tolani Mommy and Me capsule in 2017; and Nicole Miller, the RISD-trained designer blending timeless design with eclectic modern sensibility - cinema, contemporary art and mid-century architecture - whose nicole by Nicole Miller exclusive has served JCPenney shoppers since 2005.

N closes at full scale: Nike, based near Beaverton and the world's leading athletic designer and distributor, whose Explore Team research lab drives performance innovation across women's clothing engineered for comfort in every movement, with Converse and Hurley as wholly-owned subsidiaries; Nine West, named for the Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street, first stored in Stamford in 1983, in over 800 locations in 57 countries, Jones-owned from 1999 and Sycamore Partners' private Nine West Holdings from the $2.2 billion 2014 merger; and Norma Kamali, the inventor-designer of the Sleeping Bag Coat, the High Heeled Sneaker and the Parachute Collection, begun in her own sample room in 1967 and first with Sweats and Active collections as core product in 1980.

From the N pages you can browse onward to the brands' official sites in each profile's references, to Apparel Search's own Nautica and VF Corporation profiles, the Nicole Miller designer definition, the Nike company, news, financials and jobs pages, Nicky Hilton's celebrity and blog coverage and the Nike Flyknit sports-bra story, and across the directory to popular brands, designers, retail and wholesale guides - woven into the copy or listed under More to Explore. This hub also points across the alphabet to The North Face under T. Nine brands from a VW Bus childhood to a Beaverton research lab: N is the women's brands directory in miniature.