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Embroidery
Embroidery, also known as bordado, is the craft of decorating fabric with needle and thread, stitched onto the surface rather than woven in, with counted-thread, freestyle, and whitework types.
Embroidery of Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Embroidery of Eastern Europe and the Balkans is the family of regional needlework traditions that decorated clothing and household textiles across Russia, Ukraine, and the Balkan lands.
Embroidery of India
Embroidery of India: regional and community needlework traditions such as zardozi, chikan, kantha, phulkari, ari chain stitch, and Banjara and Toda work, several GI-protected and now adapted by contemporary fashion and art.
Emilio Pucci
Emilio Pucci, Marquis of Barsento (1914-1992), Italian fashion designer and Olympic skier who founded the Pucci house in 1947; famed as the Prince of Prints for kaleidoscopic Emilioform jersey designs, Braniff uniforms, and the Apollo 15 patch.
Emily Oberg
Emily Oberg, Canadian founder and visual director of Sporty & Rich, a vintage-inspired luxury sportswear brand started as a 2015 Instagram mood board; formerly Complex editorial producer and Kith Women creative lead; reported $30M revenue, no outside investors.
Emily Ratajkowski
Emily Ratajkowski (EmRata, Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski), British-born American model, actress and writer: Blurred Lines video (2013), Gone Girl, bestselling essay collection My Body (2021), Inamorata brand, High Low podcast.
Emma Ferrer
Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer (born 1994, Morges, Switzerland) is a Tuscan-based figurative painter, granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, a 2014 Harper's Bazaar cover model, and painter of The Scapegoat series shown at Sapar Contemporary.
Energizer Bunny
Energizer Bunny, pink drumming toy rabbit mascot of Energizer batteries in North America, created in 1988-1989 as a parody of Duracell's 1973 Duracell Bunny; tagline "It keeps going and going and going."
English embroidery
English embroidery: England's needlework tradition, from medieval opus anglicanum silk-and-gold church vestments and the Bayeux Tapestry to Tudor-Stuart raised work, samplers, and Jacobean crewelwork.
English knitting
English knitting, also called throwing or right-hand knitting, is a Western hand-knitting style holding yarn in the right hand and wrapping it around the needle; dominant in the UK and North America, distinct from Continental left-hand picking.
English medieval clothing
English medieval clothing: dress in England from Anglo-Saxon to late medieval times, mainly wool and linen with imported silk. Distinguished by opus anglicanum embroidery, sumptuary laws of 1337, 1363, and 1463, and London excavated textile finds.
English rose (epithet)
English rose (epithet): a term for an attractive, fair-skinned Englishwoman with a traditionally English appearance, traced to Basil Hood's 1902 opera Merrie England; distinct from David Austin's English rose cultivars.
Entrelac
Entrelac (from French entrelacer, to interlace) is a modular knitting technique building basketweave-like fabric from short-row triangles and rectangles joined by picked-up stitches, worked in tiers, flat or in the round, often in self-striping yarn.
Ephemera
Ephemera: transitory printed or written items such as tickets, posters, and receipts created for short-term use and meant to be discarded, now collected and archived as primary evidence of everyday life, from the Greek ephēmeros, "lasting only a day."
Ephod
Ephod (Hebrew אֵפֹד, ephod): ancient Israelite priestly vestment, a close-fitting armless garment worn by the high priest and ordinary priests, also denoting a cultic image or divinatory object linked to the Urim and Thummim.
Erica Mena
Erica Mena (Erica Jasmin Mena, born 1987, Bronx) is an American model, video vixen, reality TV star, actress, and author known for Love & Hip Hop: New York and Atlanta, her Safaree Samuels marriage, and books Underneath It All and Chronicles of a Confirmed Bachelorette.
Erin Heatherton
Erin Heatherton (Erin Heather Bubley, born 1989, Skokie, Illinois) is an American model and actress, a Victoria's Secret Angel 2010–2013 with six runway shows, later in SI Swimsuit 2015–2016.
Ermenegildo Zegna
Ermenegildo Zegna is an Italian luxury menswear group founded as a wool mill in Trivero, Piedmont, in 1910, whose brands include ZEGNA, Thom Browne, and TOM FORD FASHION.
Escoffion
Escoffion (scoffion): a medieval French women's headdress, originally a jeweled net-covered cushion, later a horned padded head-dress of the fifteenth century alongside the hennin; the word later became a burlesque term for common women's headwear.
Esme Young
Esme Young (born 1949) is an English fashion designer, costume designer, and judge on The Great British Sewing Bee since 2016; co-founder of Swanky Modes (1972–1993) and maker of the Bridget Jones bunny outfit.
Esprit Holdings
Esprit Holdings Ltd (Esprit, edc) is a Hong Kong-listed apparel company that shifted in 2024-2025 from direct retail to an asset-light licensing model after insolvency proceedings across European, Canadian, and US subsidiaries, reporting FY2025 revenue of about HK$20 million.
Esti Ginzburg
Esti Ginzburg (אסתי גינזבורג), born 1990 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli model and actress who appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2009-2011, served two years in the IDF, and starred in Twelve (2010).
Eugena Washington
Eugena Washington is an American model and actress who was Playboy's 2016 Playmate of the Year and finished third on America's Next Top Model in 2006.
Euphronios Krater
The Euphronios Krater, also called the Sarpedon Krater, is an Attic red-figure calyx-krater painted by Euphronios in Athens around 515 BCE, now displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri, Italy.
European textile artists
European textile artists use fiber, cloth, and stitch as a fine-art medium; the modern field emerged with the 1962 Lausanne Tapestry Biennial, which made stars of Eastern European artists like Magdalena Abakanowicz.
Eva Herzigová
Eva Herzigová (born 1973, Litvínov) is a Czech supermodel of the 1990s, nicknamed Marilyn of the Nineties, famous for the 1994 Wonderbra 'Hello Boys' campaign, Guess and Victoria's Secret work, and Editor-at-Large at Vogue Czechoslovakia.
Eva Marcille
Eva Marcille, born Eva Pigford (1984, Los Angeles), won America's Next Top Model cycle 3 in 2004, then became an actress on The Young and the Restless, RHOA, and All the Queen's Men; distinct from Spanish actress Eva Marciel.
Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit (Florence Evelyn Nesbit, 1884–1967), American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress, a Gibson Girl model and early celebrity, known for the 1906 murder of Stanford White by her husband Harry Thaw, the 'Trial of the Century'.
Evil clown
Evil clown: horror archetype depicting clowns as sinister or murderous, rooted in trickster figures, cemented by John Wayne Gacy and Stephen King's 1986 It, tied to coulrophobia and the 2016 clown sightings panic.
Ewe kente
Ewe kente, also called kete or agbamevor, is strip-woven cloth made by the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo, distinguished from Asante kente by its figurative motifs of animals, people, and letters.