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Garland
A garland is a wreath, chain, or hanging ornament made from flowers, leaves, or other materials. Cultural uses include personal adornment, welcoming guests, ceremonial honor, and festive decoration.
Garter
Garter: a band worn around the leg to hold up stockings or socks, known also as the suspender belt's parent accessory. Distinguished by its medieval unisex use, the Order of the Garter (1348), van Butchell's 1783 spring fastening, and decline after 1959 pantyhose.
Gauge (knitting)
Gauge (knitting): stitches and rows per 4 inches (10 cm) of knitted fabric, also called tension. Set by yarn, needles, and personal tension; verified with a washed swatch; central to fit and yarn substitution, with Craft Yarn Council category ranges as reference.
Gauntlet (glove)
Gauntlet (glove): a glove with a long cuff protecting wrist and forearm, from Old French gantelet; also the steel-plated medieval armored glove whose throwing down signaled a challenge.
Gaurav Gupta
Gaurav Gupta, Indian couturier and artist, co-founded Gaurav Gupta Couture with brother Saurabh Gupta in 2005; known for sculptural sari-gowns, Paris Haute Couture Week debut in January 2023 as the second Indian designer, and 'Across the Flame' SS25 collection.
Gauze
Gauze is a thin open-weave fabric, in strict textile terms the densest leno weave with crossing warp ends, also the name for loosely woven cotton surgical dressings; from French gaze, 1560s, origin uncertain.
Gelede headdresses
Gelede headdresses, known in Yoruba as igi Gelede, are carved wooden helmet masks worn by male dancers in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo to honor and appease the spiritual powers of women.
Gemma Ward
Gemma Ward (born 1987) is an Australian model and actress known for her doll-like features, who appeared on American Vogue's cover at 16 in 2004.
Genital modification and mutilation
Genital modification and mutilation covers non-medical and identity-related alteration of the genitalia: FGM/C (WHO-defined, four types, over 230 million affected), male circumcision and VMMC, intersex and gender-affirming surgery, and cosmetic genital surgery, whose legal and cultural treatment differs sharply.
Genital piercing
Genital piercing: jewelry placed through male or female genital tissue, including Prince Albert, ampallang, and VCH types. Covers healing times of 4 weeks to a year, infection, urethral and nerve complications, condom breakage and STI risk, adult-only laws, and the WHO FGM Type IV classification issue.
George Nakashima
George Nakashima (1905–1990) was a Japanese American architect turned woodworker and furniture designer in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and a leading figure of the American studio craft movement.
Georgia May Jagger
Georgia May Jagger (born 1992), British-American model and beauty entrepreneur, daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall; campaigns for Rimmel, Hudson Jeans, Versace; co-owns Bleach London and runs May Botanicals skincare.
Georgina Chapman
Georgina Chapman (born 1976) is an English fashion designer, co-founder and creative director of Marchesa with Keren Craig (2004), a red-carpet eveningwear label; former wife of Harvey Weinstein, now partner of Adrien Brody.
Georgina Rodríguez
Georgina Rodríguez Hernández (born 1994, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Spanish model, businesswoman and Netflix star of Soy Georgina, partner of Cristiano Ronaldo, with about 70 million Instagram followers and brands OM by G and Bellhatria.
Georgina Wilson
Georgina Wilson (Georgina Wilson-Burnand), born 1986, Filipino-British model, TV host, and entrepreneur; niece of Gloria Diaz, host of Asia's Next Top Model cycle 3, and co-founder of the Sunnies lifestyle brand.
Geotextile
Geotextile: permeable textile used with soil for filtration, drainage, separation, reinforcement, and stabilization. Woven types give tensile strength; nonwoven types filter and drain. First used 1926 in South Carolina road construction.
Gerbilling
Gerbilling, also called gerbil stuffing or gerbil shooting, is an urban legend about inserting a live gerbil into the rectum; no documented case or medical report exists, and its best-known variant falsely attaches the practice to Richard Gere.
German Textile Workers' Union
Gewerkschaft Textil-Bekleidung (GTB), the German textile and clothing workers' union, founded 1949 in Bad Salzuflen, a DGB founding union, dissolved 1998 into IG Metall after 129 years of textile-union tradition.
Geta (下駄) (footwear)
Geta (下駄) are Japanese wooden thonged footwear with a two-toothed platform and hanao thong, distinct from flat zori and leather-soled setta. Rooted in Yayoi ta-geta and Kofun-era imports, they flourished in Edo-period fashion and Shizuoka's Meiji-era industry.
Gia Allemand
Gia Allemand (1983–2013), American model and reality TV contestant, known for Maxim swimsuit modeling and season 14 of ABC's The Bachelor and Bachelor Pad; died at 29 in New Orleans following a suicide attempt.
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace (1946–1997), Italian fashion designer from Reggio Calabria who founded his Milan house in 1978, created the Medusa-logo luxury brand, pioneered the supermodel era, and was killed in Miami in 1997.
Giles Deacon
Giles Deacon (born 1969, Darlington) is a British couture designer and illustrator; founder of the Giles label (2003), British Designer of the Year winner, Ungaro creative director, and couture designer since 2016.
Gimbels
Gimbels (Gimbel Brothers) was an American department store chain founded in 1842 in Vincennes, Indiana, by Adam Gimbel; largest US department store company by 1923, owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's rival, closed 1987.
Gingham
Gingham (vichy check) is a plain-woven, yarn-dyed cotton fabric with even two-color checks, from Malay ginggang 'striped'; imported to Europe in the 17th century, made in Manchester, Lancashire, and Glasgow, and a recurring 1940s-50s and 2026 fashion trend.
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani (1934–2025) was an Italian fashion designer who founded his Milan ready-to-wear label in 1975 with Sergio Galeotti, pioneered deconstructed unstructured tailoring built on the soft jacket, and built an independent empire worth over $10 billion.
Girdle
A girdle is a close-fitting elastic undergarment, the twentieth-century descendant of the corset, that shapes the body below the waist and holds up stockings with attached garters.
Givenchy
Givenchy, French luxury fashion house founded in Paris in 1952 by Hubert de Givenchy, known for the Separables, L'Interdit, and Audrey Hepburn; LVMH-owned since 1988, creative director Sarah Burton since 2024.
Glenn Martens
Glenn Martens (born 1983) is a Belgian fashion designer, creative director of Maison Margiela since January 2025 and of Diesel from 2020 to 2026, previously head of Y/Project and a two-time ANDAM Grand Prix winner.
Glove
Glove: a separate-fingered hand covering, from Tutankhamun's linen pair and ceremonial regalia to surgical, baseball, protective, cold-weather and sensor gloves; mittens enclose the fingers together.
Gnaga
Gnaga: Venetian Carnival costume in which men dressed as women wearing a cat-shaped mask, named from Venetian "gnau" (meowing); also the wooden old-woman mask of the Fornesighe carnival in Val di Zoldo.