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India Royale
India Royale (born India Cox, 1995, Chicago) is an American influencer and entrepreneur, known for beauty and lifestyle content, her India Royale Beauty cosmetics line, and her marriage to rapper Lil Durk.
Indienne
Indienne: painted or block-printed cotton textile first made in India (Gujarat, Bengal, Coromandel Coast) and imitated in Europe from the 17th century; mordant-and-resist dyeing, French ban 1686–1759, Mulhouse and Jouy production.
IndustriALL Global Union
IndustriALL Global Union, global union federation founded 19 June 2012 from IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF; 550 affiliates, 50 million workers, Geneva head office, 14 sectors, Global Framework Agreements.
Ines Rau
Ines Rau (Ines-Loan Rau, born 1990) is a French-Algerian trans model, the first openly transgender Playmate, centerfold of Playboy's November/December 2017 issue; also actress, author of Femme, and DJ.
Infant Diapers
Infant diapers: disposable garments with a sodium polyacrylate core absorbing up to 30x their weight, versus reusable cloth. Covers history from 1942 disposables, skin health, safety, and environment.
Inrō
Inrō (印籠) is a small Japanese stacked case of three to five nested tiers, worn at the waist and used to hold seals and medicine.
Insect collecting
Insect collecting: capturing, killing, preserving, and storing insects and arthropods as specimens for entomology or hobby. Uses nets, kill jars with ethyl acetate, pinning, ethanol; amateur collectors declining.
Intangible cultural heritage
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH), or living heritage, covers traditions, knowledge, and skills communities recognize as their heritage. Defined by UNESCO's 2003 Convention (adopted 17 October 2003; 185 states parties as of June 2026), spanning five domains and UNESCO lists.
Intarsia (knitting)
Intarsia (knitting): a colorwork technique using a separate bobbin of yarn for each color block, with no floats and twisted color changes, unlike stranded Fair Isle knitting; worked flat for large isolated motifs.
International Honor Quilt
International Honor Quilt (IHQ), also called International Quilting Bee: a 1980 feminist art project by Judy Chicago of 542 triangular quilt panels honoring women, made by 750 makers from 12 countries, held at the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute since 2013.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), US-Canadian women's garment union founded 1900, largest in its industry, peak 450,802 members in 1957; merged with ACTWU into UNITE in 1995.
International Museum of Ceramics (Faenza)
The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza is an Italian museum of ceramics from every age and continent, founded in 1908 and housed in the former convent of San Maglorio.
International Quilt Festival
The International Quilt Festival is a large annual quilt show held each fall in Houston, Texas since 1975, featuring over 1,400 quilts, 500 vendor booths, and about 275 classes.
International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation
The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) was a Brussels-based global union federation founded in 1970 from the ITGWF-ISLWF merger, claiming up to 10 million members, and dissolved in 2012 into IndustriALL Global Union.
Intimate parts in Islam
Intimate parts in Islam ('awrah, عورة) are the body parts Islamic law requires covering in prayer and before others. Boundaries differ by school: men navel to knee; free women all but face and hands; slave women historically like men.
Inuit clothing
Inuit clothing: traditional Arctic dress of caribou and sealskin, layered fur-in/fur-out, hollow-haired caribou insulation, sinew-sewn waterproof seams, amauti baby parkas, kamiit boots, and modern fur-trimmed fabric parkas.
Inuksuk
Inuksuk (Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural inuksuit; also inukshuk) is a stone landmark built by Inuit and other Arctic peoples, meaning "that which acts in the capacity of a human"; used for navigation, caribou drives, and memorials, and now a symbol of Nunavut and Canada.
Inverted Jenny
The Inverted Jenny (Scott C3a) is a 1918 US 24-cent airmail stamp with a blue Curtiss JN-4 biplane printed upside down; one sheet of 100 exists, bought by Robey for $24 in 1918, with position 49 selling for $2,006,000 in 2023.
Ireland Baldwin
Ireland Basinger Baldwin, American fashion model and actress, daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger; signed with IMG Models and Two Management in 2013, later DT Model Management; Rampage and Sisley campaigns.
Irezumi (入れ墨)
Irezumi (入れ墨), also called horimono or shisei, is traditional Japanese tattooing: hand-poked tebori body suits with dragon, koi, and Suikoden motifs, shaped by Edo punitive marks, the 1872–1948 ban, and yakuza association.
Irina Shayk (Ирина Валерьевна Шайхлисламова)
Irina Shayk (Ирина Валерьевна Шайхлисламова), Russian model and actress born 1986 in Yemanzhelinsk; first Russian on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover (2011), face of Intimissimi, Megara in Hercules (2014), mother of Lea with Bradley Cooper.
Ironing
Ironing: pressing textiles with a heated iron to remove wrinkles via heat, moisture, and pressure. From Chinese coal pans and sadirons to Seeley's 1882 electric iron, thermostats, steam irons, and ISO 3758 care-label temperatures.
Iroquois False Face Society oratory
The Iroquois False Face Society oratory is the chanting and spoken invocation of the Haudenosaunee False Face Society, whose masked members cure sickness by blowing hot ashes.
Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, performer, and television personality born in 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, who won three CFDA awards for his womenswear label.
Isaac Singer
Isaac Merritt Singer (1811–1875), American inventor and entrepreneur, patented the first commercially successful sewing machine (US Patent 8,294, August 12, 1851) and co-founded I.M. Singer & Company with Edward Clark, which became an early multinational.
Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana, Brazilian model born 1983 in Curitiba, Elite Model Look finalist at 13, Valentino campaign at 16, Victoria's Secret controversy, eight Pirelli Calendars, over 50 Vogue covers, Pierre Cardin ambassador since 2023.
Ise katagami
Ise katagami (伊勢型紙) is Japanese stencil paper, hand carved and used in katazome resist-paste dyeing to pattern kimono and yukata cloth, produced for centuries in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture.
Isis King
Isis King, born 1985 in Maryland, is an American model, actress, and fashion designer known as the first openly transgender woman to compete on America's Next Top Model.
Iskra Lawrence
Iskra Lawrence (Iskra Arabella Lawrence) is a British model and body positivity advocate born in 1990, the face of Aerie's unretouched #AerieREAL campaign and founder of the brand Saltair.
Islamic clothing
Islamic clothing: dress shaped by modesty principles in Islamic law, from simple early Muslim garments through Abbasid and Fatimid luxury textiles to today's global modest-fashion industry and technical hijab and abaya design.