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Holly Hallstrom
Holly Anne Hallstrom (born 1952) is an American model and actress, a "Barker's Beauty" on The Price Is Right from 1977 to 1995. She was fired in 1995, ostensibly for weight gain, and fought Bob Barker in litigation settled in 2005.
Home Spot Surf Shop
Home Spot Surf Shop is a family-run surf shop at 21 Avenue Jean Laffitte, Hourtin-Plage, Gironde, France, run since 2007 by surfer-instructor Stéphan "Fanfan" Lusseyran, selling boards, wetsuits, and clothing and renting about fifty surfboards.
Hoodie
Hoodie (also hoody, bunny hug in Saskatchewan): a hooded sweatshirt developed by Champion in the 1920s-1930s for athletes or cold-warehouse workers, later a streetwear, protest, and luxury fashion icon.
Horezu ceramics
Horezu ceramics are traditional glazed pottery produced by hand in Horezu and the village of Olari, Vâlcea County, Romania, known for its rooster motif and inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2012.
Horspath
Horspath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3½ miles east of Oxford, with finds linking it to the Romano-British pottery industry.
Hot Dog Surf Shop
Hot Dog Surf Shop is a surf shop in Kittle, a village on the edge of the Gower Peninsula near Swansea, Wales, selling and hiring surfboards, wetsuits, bodyboards, and surf clothing.
Hot Topic
Hot Topic: American mall-based pop-culture and music-merchandise retailer founded by Orv Madden in 1989 in Montclair, California; went public 1996, launched Torrid 2001, owned by Sycamore Partners from 2013, sold to Spencer Spirit Holdings in 2026.
Hotpants
Hotpants (hot pants, booty shorts, micro shorts) are extremely short, close-fitting shorts worn as women's fashion. Named by Women's Wear Daily in late 1970, they peaked as a 1971 disco-era craze, faded by 1972, and have since revived, notably via Miu Miu's autumn/winter 2023 collection.
Houndstooth
Houndstooth (pied de poule, shepherd's check, dogtooth) is a two-colour broken-check pattern formed by colour order on a 2/2 twill, classically worsted wool, from Scottish shepherd outerwear of the 1800s to Dior-era and modern fashion.
Hourglass figure
Hourglass figure: a body shape with nearly equal bust and hips and a markedly narrower waist; a named category in the FFIT nine-type system and the corseted ideal of nineteenth-century fashion, later embedded in 1958 US clothing sizing.
House of Fraser
House of Fraser is a British department store group founded in Glasgow in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser, which entered administration in 2018 and now trades as FRASERS.
Huarache (shoe)
Huarache (Mexican sandal, from Purépecha kwarachi): traditional woven-leather footwear on flat leather or tire soles, a 1940s export industry, Tarahumara running sandal, and subject of the 2025 Adidas Oaxaca Slip-On appropriation dispute.
Hubert de Givenchy
Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018), French couturier, founded the Givenchy house in Paris in 1952, created the Bettina blouse and sack silhouette with Balenciaga, and defined Audrey Hepburn's style from Sabrina to Breakfast at Tiffany's; sold to LVMH in 1988, retired 1995.
Hugo Boss
HUGO BOSS: German premium fashion company founded 1924 in Metzingen by Hugo Ferdinand Boss; brands BOSS and HUGO; EUR 4.3 billion fiscal 2025 sales; Frasers Group holds 48 percent and bid EUR 38 per share.
Huipil
Huipil (Nahuatl huipilli, güipil): sleeveless Mesoamerican women's tunic of one to three backstrap-loom woven rectangular panels with a neck opening, worn in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, with community-specific motifs and pre-conquest origins.
Hummel figurines
Hummel figurines (M.I. Hummel), German earthenware collectible figures made by Goebel in Rödental from 1935 after drawings by Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, identified by HUM numbers and TMK base marks.
Hummel International
Hummel International, also styled hummel, is a Danish sportswear brand founded in 1923 in Hamburg, known for its chevrons and bumblebee, handball and football sponsorships (EHF, IHF, Danish national team), Company Karma projects, and Thornico ownership.
Hurley International
Hurley International: American surf and skate apparel brand founded by Bob Hurley in Costa Mesa, California (surfboards from 1979, clothing 1998/1999), owned by Nike 2002–2019 and by Bluestar Alliance since December 2019.
Hush Puppies
Hush Puppies is an American footwear brand of casual, comfort-focused shoes launched in 1958 by Wolverine World Wide, with a basset hound mascot and licensed sales worldwide.
Hydrocolloid dressing
Hydrocolloid dressing, also called hydrocolloid wound dressing or patch (水胶体敷料), is a two-layer adhesive dressing of CMC, pectin, or gelatin with a polyurethane backing that gels with exudate to keep wounds moist, used for pressure injuries, minor burns, and acne.
Icelandic national costume
Þjóðbúningurinn, the Icelandic national costume, is a family of traditional dress styles: five women's costumes (faldbúningur, peysuföt, upphlutur, skautbúningur, kyrtill) and two men's variants, worn on June 17 and at formal occasions.
Iconix Brand Group
Iconix Brand Group is an American brand management company (now Iconix International) owning roughly 30 consumer brands such as Candie's, Starter, Umbro, and Rocawear, licensing them to retailers and wholesalers; it was charged by the SEC in 2019 with accounting fraud, and former CEO Neil Cole was sentenced to prison in 2023.
Ifugao wood carving
Ifugao wood carving is the carving tradition of the Ifugao people of the Cordillera mountains in northern Luzon, Philippines, best known for the bulul, a carved figure guarding rice granaries.
Iga ware
Iga ware (伊賀焼, Iga-yaki) is Japanese stoneware made in Iga, Mie Prefecture, best known for boldly distorted tea ceramics of the Momoyama period and modern donabe pots.
Imaan Hammam
Imaan Hammam is a Dutch fashion model of Moroccan and Egyptian descent, scouted at Amsterdam Central Station at 13, who opened Givenchy spring/summer 2014, has 26 Vogue covers, and is an Estée Lauder ambassador, distinct from the model Iman.
Iman (model)
Iman (born Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, 1955, Mogadishu) is a Somali-American supermodel, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, wife of David Bowie, and founder of IMAN Cosmetics in 1994.
Imperial kilns of Jingdezhen
The imperial kilns of Jingdezhen, known as the Yuyichang in the Ming and Yuyaochang in the Qing, fired porcelain exclusively for China's imperial courts from 1369 to 1911.
Imperial Porcelain Factory
The Imperial Porcelain Factory (Императорский фарфоровый завод) is a porcelain manufactory in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1744 by Empress Elizabeth, the first porcelain works in Russia and still operating today.
Inca tunic
The Inca tunic, called uncu in the Inca language, was the shirtlike primary garment of Inca men in the Andes, woven as one rectangle of tapestry cloth with a neck slit.
India Hicks
India Hicks, British designer, author, and humanitarian, daughter of David Hicks and Lady Pamela Mountbatten, goddaughter of King Charles III and bridesmaid at his 1981 wedding, Bahamas-based, Global Empowerment Mission board member.