About nghty

Polly - Founder & CEO of nghty Berlin
nghty was born on a night at Berlin's KitKatClub. I walked in wearing barely more than lingerie, and I had never felt that free in my own body. That feeling - the way a Berlin night makes you feel - is the whole reason this brand exists.
Before that, I'd spent years in strategy consulting and venture capital (what most people would call a successful path). But something was missing. The kind of freedom and self-expression I wanted wasn't going to come from a boardroom. I found it in Berlin instead. In its nightlife, its festivals, the way the city refuses to play by anyone else's rules.
In those spaces I saw what happens when women stop performing for anyone else. They become magnetic. And I kept thinking that feeling shouldn't only belong to one night out, or to a single room in the city. You should be able to reach for it any day you want.
When I went looking for lingerie that matched that energy, I couldn't find it. Everything was soft and romantic, made to look pretty for someone else. Or it was costume-like and impractical, the kind of thing saved for one night a year. Nothing was built for the woman I was in those moments, or for every moment after.
So I made it myself. nghty is lingerie with edge - minimal cuts, considered design, no lace, no bows. Pieces that feel as good at 7am as they do at 3am. Lingerie you wear for yourself to feel like the most powerful version of you.

