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Eyo masquerade
The Eyo masquerade, formally known as Adamu Orisha, is a white-robed costumed figure and procession tradition of Lagos Island, Nigeria, performed chiefly at the burial rites of prominent chiefs.
Fabindia
Fabindia: Indian retail company founded in 1960 by John Bissell as a handloom export house, now a 350-plus-store chain sourcing from over 55,000 rural artisans, known for community-owned supplier companies and craft-based apparel.
Fabio Lanzoni
Fabio Lanzoni (born 1959, Milan), known as Fabio, Italian-American model famous for 400+ romance novel covers from Hearts Aflame (1987) and the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! campaign (1994–2016).
Fabletics
Fabletics: American activewear brand founded 2013 by Kate Hudson, Adam Goldenberg, Don Ressler under TechStyle. Known for its $69.95/month VIP membership with VIP Credits, 135+ stores, and international expansion into India, UAE, and Latin America.
Facesitting
Facesitting, also called queening, is a sexual practice in which one partner sits on the other's face to receive oral sex. Covers terminology, the 2014 UK protest, STI risk, breathing risk, and consent.
Fair Isle (technique)
Fair Isle is a Shetland stranded colorwork knitting technique from Fair Isle island, using no more than two colors per row, geometric motifs, Shetland wool, floats under five stitches, popularized by the Prince of Wales in 1921.
Fairyland Lustre
Fairyland Lustre (仙境彩光陶瓷) is an iridescent lusterware range made on bone china by Wedgwood from late 1915, decorated to designs by Daisy Makeig-Jones with fairies, imps, and goblins in fantastic landscapes.
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold (Faith Willi Jones, 1930–2024), American painter, author, and activist from Harlem, best known for painted story quilts such as Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? and Tar Beach, the American People series, and children's books.
Family Pottery Hostel
Family Pottery Hostel (墾丁寶島窯民宿, Kenting Baodao Yao B&B) is a licensed 5-room, 18-guest pottery-themed homestay in Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, run by a ceramics-loving couple offering evening pottery DIY for guests.
Fanny pack
Fanny pack (bum bag, belt bag): a small zippered pouch worn on a waist strap, with 5,000-year origins in Ötzi's belt pouch, a 1980s athleisure peak, a 1990s stigma, and a 2010s revival as cross-body sling and luxury belt bag.
Fantasy coffin
A fantasy coffin, known in Ga as Abebuu adekai, is a coffin shaped to represent the deceased's life, such as a fish for a fisherman, made in Ghana.
Farfetch
Farfetch is a global luxury fashion marketplace founded by José Neves in London around 2007, linking buyers in 190+ countries with 1,400+ brands and boutiques; NYSE-listed in 2018, it nearly failed in 2023 and was bought by Coupang in January 2024.
Farthing (British coin)
The farthing was the smallest pre-decimal British coin, worth a quarter of a penny (960 to the pound); silver from the 13th century, copper from 1672, bronze from 1860, demonetised 1 January 1961.
Farthingale
Farthingale: hooped or padded underskirt support of the 16th–17th centuries, from Spanish verdugado (verdugo, green rod). Originated at the Castilian court; Spanish, French, and wheel styles; obsolete in England by 1625.
Fascinator
Fascinator: decorative women's headpiece on a comb, clip, or headband, no brim or crown; originally an 18th-19th-century lace or knitted scarf, renamed by Mr. John in the 1960s; banned from Royal Ascot's Royal Enclosure.
Fashion
Fashion: the socially driven, changing practice of dress communicating identity and status, and the trillions-dollar industry behind it. Covers haute couture origins, 2026 low single-digit growth, tariffs, AI adoption, and sustainability burdens.
Fashion accessory
Fashion accessories are items worn or carried to complete an outfit, from bags and hats to jewelry and belts. Covers their history, social meaning, market growth, sustainability footprint, and EU rules.
Fashion and clothing in the Philippines
Fashion and clothing in the Philippines: baro't saya, terno, Maria Clara dress, and barong Tagalog national attire; piña and handwoven textiles; Spanish and American colonial influences; contemporary designers and MNL Fashion Week.
Fashion and Textile Museum
Fashion and Textile Museum, London museum at 83 Bermondsey Street founded by Zandra Rhodes in 2003, housed in a Ricardo Legorreta building, run by Newham College since 2007, showing temporary contemporary fashion and textile exhibitions.
Fashion in India
Fashion in India spans ancient textile traditions, a large garment industry, and a designer sector gaining global recognition, with handmade fabrics dating back 6,000 years.
Fashion in the United States
Fashion in the United States: design, manufacture, and consumption of American clothing, rooted in ready-to-wear and sportswear rather than Parisian couture. Key facts: NYC Garment District heyday of 300,000 jobs, 939,000 apparel workers in 1990, NAFTA-driven decline, Los Angeles as largest remaining production hub.
Fashion Museum, Bath
The Fashion Museum, Bath, founded in 1963 as the Museum of Costume, holds around 100,000 objects spanning the late sixteenth century to today, reopening in 2030.
Fashion Nova
Fashion Nova is an American fast fashion retailer founded in 2006 by Richard Saghian in Los Angeles, grown via Instagram and TikTok influencer marketing into a billion-dollar brand known for rapid trend drops, Cardi B collaborations, and a 2022 FTC review-suppression settlement.
Fashion show
Fashion show: an event where designers present new clothing on live models to buyers, press, and clients. Traced to Charles Frederick Worth; fixed twice-yearly dates by 1918; now runway, presentation, and digital formats within fashion weeks.
Fashion week
Fashion week: twice-yearly series of runway shows and presentations in New York, London, Milan, and Paris (the Big Four), begun with Eleanor Lambert's 1943 Press Week, where designers show upcoming collections to buyers and press months before retail delivery.
Fast fashion
Fast fashion is a business model in apparel retailing that rapidly turns the latest trends into affordable clothing, underpinning Inditex's Zara, H&M, and ultra-fast retailer Shein.
Fast Retailing (ファーストリテイリング)
Fast Retailing (ファーストリテイリング) is the Japanese apparel retail holding company behind UNIQLO, GU, and Theory, run on a SPA model by Tadashi Yanai. FY2026 revenue was ¥3.9633 trillion, and it may end 2026 as the world's second-largest apparel group.
Fatimid lusterware
Fatimid lusterware is lustre-painted ceramic produced mainly at Fustat, Egypt, under the Fatimid caliphate, dated from around 1000 AD until 1171 and prized for its metallic golden sheen.
Feather cloak
Feather cloak (kahu huruhuru), a prestigious Māori garment with feathers woven into a flax-fibre muka base; birds as messengers of Tāne, kahu kiwi as highest mana, production common from the mid-1800s.
Featherwork
Featherwork, in Spanish arte plumaria and Nahuatl amantecayotl, is the art of making objects and images from bird feathers, reaching its greatest refinement in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico through feather mosaic.