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Adidas
Adidas (adidas AG), German sportswear company founded by Adi Dassler, registered 1949 in Herzogenaurach; known for the 3-Stripes, Samba, Telstar ball, Trefoil logo, and 2025 net sales of €24,811 million.
Adidas Originals
Adidas Originals is adidas's lifestyle brand, founded 2001, marked by the Trefoil logo (introduced 1972, reserved for Originals since 2000). It reissues heritage shoes like the Samba, Superstar, and Stan Smith for streetwear.
Adidas Superstar
The Adidas Superstar is a low-top leather sneaker with a rubber shell toe, introduced by adidas in 1970 as a basketball shoe and adopted by hip-hop culture.
Adinkra cloth
Adinkra cloth is a stamped textile made by the Asante people of Ghana, whose carved symbols carry meanings drawn from proverbs and are traditionally used for mourning.
Adinkra stamps
Adinkra stamps are hand-carved calabash printing blocks used to press symbolic Adinkra motifs onto cloth in the Akan adinkra tradition of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Adire eleko
Adire eleko (àdìrẹ ẹlẹ́kọ) is a Yoruba resist-dyed indigo cloth from south-western Nigeria, first made around 1910 in Lagos and Abeokuta by painting cassava-flour paste onto cotton.
Adolf Dassler
Adolf "Adi" Dassler (1900–1978), German shoemaker and founder of adidas, first built sports shoes with brother Rudolf in 1920s Herzogenaurach; after their 1948 split he founded adidas and Rudolf founded Puma.
Adwoa Aboah
Adwoa Aboah: British model, activist, and entrepreneur, founder of mental-health platform Gurls Talk (2015), British Fashion Council Model of the Year 2017, Enninful's first British Vogue cover, and founder of the bag brand The Veil.
Aegyo
Aegyo (애교, 愛嬌) is Korean performed cuteness: babyish voice, pouting, and gestures used to charm or persuade, common among couples, families, and K-pop idols, with documented vowel-shift acoustics.
African red slip ware
African Red Slip ware (ARS, sigillata africana, terra sigillata chiara) is Roman fine tableware with red fabric and transparent slip, made in Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya from the 1st to 7th century AD and exported across the Mediterranean; term coined by John Hayes.
African wax prints
African wax prints, known locally as ankara or kitenge, are colorful cotton cloths made by a resin-resist printing process, worn in West and Central Africa since the late 19th century.
African-American culture
African-American culture, also called Black American culture, is the languages, religious practices, music, foodways, and crafts developed by Black Americans, shaped by slavery, segregation, and racism.
African-American pottery
African-American pottery is the ceramic tradition made by enslaved and free Black potters in the United States, including colonoware, Edgefield alkaline-glazed stoneware, and David Drake's verse-inscribed jars.
African-American quiltmaking
African-American quiltmaking is the tradition of patchwork quilting among Black communities in the United States since the 19th century, best known through the bold, improvisational quilts of Gee's Bend, Alabama.
Agbada
Agbada (agbada, also riga or boubou) is the voluminous, wide-sleeved embroidered robe worn by elite men across West Africa, the outer piece of a four-piece Yoruba formal outfit adopted from the Hausa-Fulani riga in the nineteenth century.
Aglet
Aglet (also aiglet): the small plastic or metal sheath on the end of a shoelace, drawstring, or cord that prevents fraying and aids threading through eyelets; from Old French aiguillette, needle; historically ornamental metal lace tags.
Air Jordan
Air Jordan is Nike's signature basketball shoe and apparel line for Michael Jordan, launched with the Air Jordan 1 in 1985 after Nike's record 1984 rookie signing; NBA-banned AJ1, Jumpman logo, Jordan Brand spinoff, and record sneaker auctions distinguish it.
Ajrakh
Ajrakh is a resist-and-mordant block-printed cotton textile known for geometric patterns in indigo blue, madder red, and iron black, made in Kutch, Gujarat, and Sindh.
Akahogi Tile Kiln Site (赤保木瓦窯跡)
Akahogi Tile Kiln Site (赤保木瓦窯跡) in Takayama, Gifu, is a national Historic Site of six ancient kilns, four Nara-period tile kilns that fired roof tiles for Hida Kokubunji and two Heian-era Sue ware kilns.
Al Sadu (السدو)
Al Sadu (السدو) is Bedouin women's warp-faced weaving of sheep wool, camel hair and goat hair on a ground loom, producing tents, carpets and camel decorations. UNESCO-inscribed (UAE urgent safeguarding 2011, Representative List 2025; Saudi Arabia/Kuwait 2020, Qatar 2025).
Alcantara (material)
Alcantara (material): a proprietary Italian synthetic suede-like microfiber of 68% polyester and 32% polyurethane, invented by Miyoshi Okamoto and produced since 1972 by Alcantara S.p.A. Used in car interiors, fashion, and electronics; carbon-neutral certified since 2009.
Alebrije
Alebrije (plural alebrijes): brightly colored Mexican folk-art sculptures of fantastical hybrid creatures, invented in papier-mâché by Mexico City cartonero Pedro Linares after a 1930s fever dream, and later applied to Oaxacan copal-wood carvings from Arrazola and San Martín Tilcajete.
Alek Wek
Alek Wek (born 1977, Wau, Sudan) is a South Sudanese-British supermodel, designer, and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador who fled civil war at 14, was scouted in London in 1995, and became the first African Elle cover model and first Black Chanel couture bride.
Alençon lace
Alençon lace (point d'Alençon), hand-made French needle lace from Alençon, Normandy, developed around 1650 by Marthe La Perrière; about seven hours per square centimeter, ten production stages, UNESCO-listed since 2010, distinct from machine-made Lyons and Levers Alençon.
Aleppo soap
Aleppo soap (صابون الغار الحلبي), also called ghar soap, is a hard Syrian soap of olive oil and laurel berry oil, boiled in winter, family-stamped, dried 6–9 months, UNESCO-inscribed in 2024.
Alessandro Michele
Alessandro Michele (born 1972), Italian designer from Rome; Gucci creative director 2015-2022, whose maximalist, gender-fluid aesthetic roughly tripled revenues, then Valentino creative director from April 2, 2024, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Alex Anderson (quilter)
Alex Anderson (quilter), American quiltmaker and author, host of HGTV's Simply Quilts, co-founder of The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims; distinct from the animator Alex Anderson and other namesakes.
Alex Consani
Alex Consani (born 2003) is an American transgender fashion model and TikTok personality, Model of the Year winner at the 2024 UK Fashion Awards, the first trans woman to win that honor, and an IMG Models signee known for Tom Ford, Versace, and Victoria's Secret runway work.
Alex Curran
Alex Curran (born 1982, Aintree), also Alex Gerrard, English model, Daily Mirror fashion columnist, wife of footballer Steven Gerrard; a name shared by an Essex equestrian creator, a Brooklyn production head, and Aptitude Software's CEO.
Alexa Chung
Alexa Chung (born 1983) is a British model, TV presenter, writer, and designer, scouted at 16 at Reading Festival, host of MTV's It's On and Netflix's Next in Fashion, namesake of Mulberry's Alexa bag, and founder of the Alexachung label (2017–2022).