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New Balance (1906)
New Balance is an American footwear company. Founded in 1906 in Belmont, Massachusetts, by William J. Riley, a 33-year-old English immigrant, New Balance Arch Support Company produces orthotic arches and other accessories that improve the fit of shoes.
New Romantics
Youth movement and spontaneous fashion. It originated in London at the start of the 1980s as a reaction to Punk, and slowly diffused across the Western world. The clothing looked to the past, through evocations, juxtapositions, and combinations: lace, scarves,…
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
(Naba). Following a ministerial decree in Italy, in 1989 a fashion course at university level was established within the existing Accademia. It aims to prepare students for the creative and technical positions in the industry. It lasts four years and…
Nagasawa
Yoichi (1957). Japanese designer. He studied for a diploma in 1980 at the Mode Fashion Academy. He became the indispensable assistant to Tokyo Kumagai until 1987. He launched his first collection in 1992 and won the Mainichi Fashion Award, given…
Neulander Simon
Else, better known as Eva (1900-1942). German photographer. In 1925, she ran a photographic studio in Berlin, initially collaborating with Heinz Hajek-Halke and later working on her own. She took portraits and fashion photographs, publishing in Die Dame, Elegante Welt,…
Novità
Italian women’s magazine launched in 1950 by Emilia Kuster Rosselli, who was its editor until 1958. With a modest financial contribution from her family, an adaptable and very young editorial team, in a short time the magazine became very popular,…
Nutter
Tommy (1943-1992). English tailor. He abandoned his architecture studies in order to join the workshop of G. Ward & Co., London tailors in Savile Row. In 1969, with the help of Cilla Black and Peter Brown of Apple (the Beatles’…
Nonsolomoda
Magazine program on fashion and the world of performance broadcast on the Mediaset network. Created by Fabrizio Pasquero, it was subtitled, “A weekly program on various vanities.” It covers fashion in the widest sense of the word, namely everything that…
New Boxer
Clothing manufacturer with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. Founded in 1988, with an initial capital of 2 million dollars, it manufactures clothing for men, women, and children of different brands, including lines of accessories (bags, umbrellas, belts) and jeans. It has…
Nordica
Italian ski boot manufacturer. During the 1960s, after a new type of ski boot was invented in Austria that substituted metal clasps for laces, Nordica of Montebelluna (Treviso) was the first firm to adopt them in Italy. Founded in 1938…
