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Cabinet of curiosities
Cabinet of curiosities (Wunderkammer, cabinet de curiosités, studiolo): Renaissance to 18th-century European private collections of naturalia, artificialia, and scientifica, precursors of modern museums, exemplified by Rudolf II's Prague Kunstkammer and revived in contemporary art and exhibition design.
Caitlin O'Connor
Caitlin O'Connor is an American actress and producer known for playing Dyan Cannon in HBO's Winning Time and for her Producers Guild of America induction in 2024.
Calender
Calender (calendering): a textile finishing process passing fabric between heated, pressurized rollers (up to 400 bar, 150–220 °C) to smooth, glaze, or emboss cloth; variants include swissing, friction, Schreiner, and embossing calenders.
Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein, founded in New York in 1968 by designer Calvin Klein and Barry Schwartz, is an American fashion brand known for minimalist style, designer jeans, provocative ads, and logo-waistband underwear; owned by PVH since 2003, with about $9 billion in 2025 retail sales.
Cambric
Cambric, also known historically as batiste (named after a legendary Cambrai weaver), is a fine closely woven plain-weave fabric originally in linen from Cambrai, northern France; a 1530 record shows cambric bought for Henry VIII's shirts, and today it is a light calendered cotton of roughly 60–140 GSM used for shirts, handkerchiefs, linings and printed ethnic wear.
Camila Alves
Camila Alves (Camila Alves McConaughey), Brazilian-born model, designer and entrepreneur; moved to Los Angeles at 15, worked as a maid, then modeled for Dior and Mango; married Matthew McConaughey in 2012; founded Muxo, Women of Today, Yummy Spoonfuls, and Pantalones Tequila.
Camisole
Camisole (cami): a waist-length sleeveless undergarment for women, from French camisole via Late Latin camisia. Once a men's 1670s waistcoat and a Victorian corset cover; now both underwear and outerwear.
Campaign hat
The campaign hat, also called the Smokey Bear hat or drill sergeant hat, is a broad-brimmed felt hat with a four-cornered peaked crown worn in uniforms.
Canada Goose (clothing)
Canada Goose, Canadian performance luxury apparel brand founded 1957 in Toronto as Metro Sportswear by Sam Tick; Dani Reiss CEO; famous for Expedition Parka, fur-free since 2022, NYSE/TSX: GOOS.
Canarian traditional dress
Canarian traditional dress, the traje canario, is the folk dress of the Canary Islands, where each island has its own typical costume worn at festivals and by folkloric groups.
Candace Wheeler
Candace Thurber Wheeler (1827–1923), American textile and interior designer, America's first important woman in both fields; founded the Society of Decorative Art (1877), partnered with Louis Comfort Tiffany, ran the all-woman firm Associated Artists, and decorated the 1893 Woman's Building.
Candice Swanepoel
Candice Swanepoel (born 1988, Mooi River, South Africa) is a South African model, Victoria's Secret Angel from 2010, wearer of the 2013 $10 million Fantasy Bra, and founder of the swimwear brand Tropic of C.
Canvas
Canvas (帆布, hampu) is a heavy plain-weave fabric of cotton, linen, or hemp, named for hemp; duck cloth is denser plied-yarn canvas graded by the US numbered system where lower numbers mean heavier cloth.
Cap
Cap: a brimless, close-fitting head covering, often with a visor; also an upper legal limit, a warm-air layer that delays thunderstorms, slang for a lie, and several CAP acronyms.
Cape
Cape: a sleeveless outer garment fastening at the neck and hanging from the shoulders, shorter than a cloak; from Latin cappa; worn since prehistory for weather, ceremony, and status, and recurring in modern fashion.
Capirote
Capirote: the tall conical pointed hood (Spanish capirote, also cucurucho or coroza) worn by Holy Week penitents in Spain and Hispanic countries; originating in 15th-century Inquisition punishment dress, adopted by Seville brotherhoods in the 17th century, unrelated to the later KKK costume.
Capri Holdings
Capri Holdings Limited (NYSE: CPRI), formerly Michael Kors Holdings Limited, is a luxury fashion group owning Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo; it bought Versace in 2018, survived a blocked $8.5 billion Tapestry merger, and sold Versace to Prada in 2025.
Capri pants
Capri pants, also called capris, are close-fitting women's pants cropped to end above the ankle. Named for the Italian island of Capri, they became popular in the 1950s.
Capsule wardrobe
Capsule wardrobe: a small, coordinated set of versatile clothes mixed into many outfits. Coined by Susie Faux in 1970s London, popularized by Donna Karan's 1985 Seven Easy Pieces; linked to Project 333 and sustainable fashion research.
Cardigan (sweater)
Cardigan sweater: a front-opening knitted sweater fastened with buttons, zips, or snaps, named after the 7th Earl of Cardigan of the Crimean War; word in use since 1856, popularized for women by Coco Chanel in the 1920s.
Carding
Carding: textile fiber-preparation process using wire-toothed cards or carding machines to disentangle, align, blend, and clean cotton or wool before spinning; woollen roving versus worsted sliver; from 13th-century hand cards to Arkwright's 1775 machine.
Carhartt
Carhartt: American workwear brand founded 1889 in Detroit by Hamilton Carhartt; bib overalls for railroad workers, Chore Coat, Detroit Jacket; family-owned, Dearborn, Michigan; Carhartt WIP European fashion line.
CariDee English
CariDee English (born 1984, Fargo, North Dakota) is an American model and TV personality who won Cycle 7 of America's Next Top Model in December 2006, later a National Psoriasis Foundation spokesperson, host of Pretty Wicked, and drummer in LUVnENGLISH.
Carly Foulkes
Carly Foulkes (born 1988, Toronto) is a Canadian model, actress, and photographer known as the T-Mobile Girl from the 2010–2011 myTouch 4G pink-dress ads and the 2012 Ducati "Alter Ego" campaign, later a photographer and member of the band Gracey and Foulkes.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
Carmen Dell'Orefice (born June 3, 1931, New York) is an American fashion model, discovered at 13, a Vogue cover girl from 1946, Salvador Dalí's muse, and the world's oldest working model, active into her nineties.
Carnival of Venice
Carnival of Venice (Carnevale di Venezia): annual pre-Lent masked festival in Venice, Italy, documented from 1094, outlawed after the Republic fell in 1797, and revived in 1979; famed for bauta masks, water parades, and the Flight of the Angel.
Carol Alt
Carol Alt (born 1960, New York) is an American supermodel of the 1980s, called by John Casablancas the model who started the supermodel trend, with 500-plus covers, Cover Girl and Sports Illustrated credits, and a later raw-food author career.
Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera (María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño, born 1939, Caracas) is a Venezuelan fashion designer who founded her New York house in 1981; Puig-owned since 1995, known for the white shirt, First Ladies, fragrances, and Wes Gordon as creative director since 2018.
Caroline Fleming
Caroline Fleming, born Caroline Elizabeth Ada Iuel-Brockdorff (1975), Danish TV personality and "TV baroness", ex-wife of Rory Fleming, host of Danmarks næste topmodel and Ladies of London cast member, cookbook author, and Caolin clinic co-founder.
Caroline Vreeland
Caroline Vreeland (Caroline Olivia Zickerick, born 1987), German-American singer, actress, and model, great-granddaughter of fashion editor Diana Vreeland; known for Star, Notes on Sex and Wine, Next Models, CR Fashion Book column.