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Christian Dior
Christian Ernest Dior was a French fashion designer, born in 1905, who founded the House of Dior in 1946 and transformed postwar fashion with his 1947 New Look.
Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix (born 1951, Arles) is a French fashion designer who founded his couture house in 1987 after Jean Patou, defined 1980s color and baroque embellishment, led Pucci 2002-2005, and designs opera, ballet, and theater costumes.
Christian Louboutin
Christian Louboutin (born 1963, Paris) is the French shoe designer and founder of the Louboutin luxury house, famous for red-lacquered soles (Pantone 18-1663TP), a trademark upheld in US and EU courts, and an independent brand valued at €2.25 billion in 2021.
Christian Siriano
Christian Siriano, American fashion designer and Project Runway season 4 winner (finale March 2008), founded his eponymous label in 2008; known for size-inclusive red-carpet glamour, CFDA membership since 2013, and mentoring Project Runway.
Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley (born Christie Lee Hudson, 1954) is an American supermodel, actress, and entrepreneur, first model on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers (1979–1981), CoverGirl face, Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl', memoir author.
Christophe Lemaire (fashion designer)
Christophe Lemaire, French fashion designer, founded his label in 1991 and led Lacoste, Hermès womenswear, and Uniqlo U; he now co-leads the independent house LEMAIRE with Sarah-Linh Tran.
Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)
Christopher Bailey, British fashion designer, Burberry creative leader 2001-2018 (Design Director, Chief Creative Officer 2009, CEO 2014-2017); distinct from the brand consultant Chris Bailey and actor Jonathan Bailey; transformed Burberry into a global luxury brand.
Chrome Hearts
Chrome Hearts: Los Angeles luxury brand founded 1988 by Richard Stark, John Bowman, and Leonard Kamhout, making handmade sterling silver jewelry, leather, eyewear, and gothic-motif apparel in Hollywood.
Chuck Taylor All-Stars
Chuck Taylor All Stars (Chucks) are Converse canvas basketball sneakers introduced in 1917 as the Non-Skid, renamed All Star in 1919, and named for salesman-player Chuck Taylor by 1932; dominant in basketball until the 1970s, now a casual icon owned by Nike since 2003.
Chukka boot
Chukka boot: ankle-high lace-up boot with two or three eyelet pairs, often suede, also called desert boot in its crepe-soled Clarks form; named after polo's chukker and popularized by WWII British desert campaigns.
Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford (Cynthia Ann Crawford) is an American supermodel, television personality, and entrepreneur, born in 1966, best known as a defining face of the 1990s supermodel era.
Cindy Margolis
Cindy Margolis (Cynthia Dawn Margolis), American model and TV personality, the Guinness-recognized "most downloaded woman on the Internet" of the late 1990s; greeting-card start, CindyMargolis.com, Austin Powers fembot, Playboy December 2006.
Çini
Çini is the Turkish tradition of handmade, glazed tiles and ceramics painted with colorful plant, animal, and geometric motifs and used on buildings and in homes, recognized by UNESCO in 2016.
Cintas
Cintas Corporation (Cintas Corp, CTAS) is a US uniform rental and facility-services company: weekly route-delivered laundered workwear, mats, restroom supplies, first aid and fire protection, with $11.26 billion fiscal 2026 revenue and a pending UniFirst acquisition.
Circus clown
Circus clown: a comic ring performer dating to Astley's 1768 circus; Grimaldi created the whiteface, the Auguste arose at Circus Renz in Berlin, and classic types include whiteface, Auguste, and character or tramp clowns.
Claddagh ring
Claddagh ring (fáinne Cladach): Irish ring of two hands clasping a crowned heart, made in Galway since c. 1700, credited to goldsmith Richard Joyce, descended from fede rings, a symbol of love, loyalty and friendship and of Irish diaspora identity.
Claire McCardell
Claire McCardell (1905–1958) was an American fashion designer, widely credited as the founder of American sportswear and the American Look, known for practical ready-to-wear designs like the Popover dress.
Claire Zeisler
Claire Zeisler (Claire Block, 1903–1991) was an American fiber artist and collector in Chicago known for free-standing, off-loom knotted and wrapped fiber sculptures such as Coil Series III—A Celebration, which helped elevate fiber art to fine art.
Claire's
Claire's, also Claire's Stores, Inc., is an American accessories and jewelry retailer for girls and tweens, famous for ear piercing (131 million piercings). Founded 1961 as a wig retailer; two Chapter 11 bankruptcies (2018, 2025); now owned by Ames Watson with about 900 North American stores; UK and Ireland standalone stores closed in 2026.
Clarabell the Clown
Clarabell the Clown, also Clarabell Hornblow, was the mute, horn-honking, seltzer-squirting clown of NBC's Howdy Doody Show (1947–1960), played by Bob Keeshan, Bob Nicholson, and Lew Anderson, who spoke only "Goodbye, kids" in the 1960 finale.
Clarice Cliff
Clarice Cliff (1899–1972) was an English ceramic designer of Stoke-on-Trent, famed for Art Deco 'Bizarre' and 'Fantasque' hand-painted pottery launched from 1927, sold under her own name, and later revived by collectors.
Cleavage (breasts)
Cleavage is the hollow between a woman's supported breasts, especially as exposed by a low-cut garment; anatomically the intermammary cleft. The clothing sense of the word dates to 1946; décolletage peaked in Rococo fashion, vanished after 1785, and was shunned in the monobosom era.
Clerical clothing
Clerical clothing is the everyday distinctive dress of ordained Christian clergy, distinct from liturgical vestments: the cassock, black suit with Roman collar, clergy shirt, and Protestant Geneva gown, with history from the early church to modern norms.
Clerical collar
Clerical collar, also Roman collar or dog collar: a stiff white band or tab worn with a black shirt or cassock by Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist and many Presbyterian clergy; a modern garment of the 19th century used as recognizable street dress, not a vestment.
Clitoral hood piercing
Clitoral hood piercing: a female genital piercing through the hood skin above the clitoris, most commonly the vertical clitoral hood (VCH) type, plus HCH and triangle placements; anatomy-dependent, with infection, migration, and nerve-injury risks.
Clitoris piercing
Clitoris piercing: a female genital piercing at or near the clitoral glans or hood, also called clit piercing. Actual glans piercing is rare due to desensitization risk; hood piercings dominate, motivated mainly by heightened sexual sensation.
Cloak
Cloak: a loose, sleeveless outer garment fastening at the neck and falling from the shoulders, worn instead of a coat; also called tilmatli, capa, Umhang. Covers typology, etymology, and world traditions.
Clog
A clog is a shoe made entirely or partly of wood, first designed to protect the feet, stockings, or other shoes from damage and water.
Clothing
Clothing: material body covering made of textiles or hides, providing thermal protection, hygiene, and social signaling. Key facts: eyed needles near 50,000 years ago, 132 million tonnes of fibre produced in 2024, 92 million tonnes of textile waste yearly.
Clothing in Africa
Clothing in Africa covers indigenous textile traditions such as kente, aṣọ-òkè, àdìrẹ and bògòlanfini, pre-colonial cloth production, colonial-era dress change, and a modern fashion industry with $15.5 billion in annual textile exports.