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Islamic pottery
Islamic pottery, or Islamic ceramics, is the ceramic production of the Islamic world from the 7th century onward, spanning glazed fine wares developed in Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Anatolia.
Issey Miyake (三宅一生)
Issey Miyake (三宅一生), 1938–2022, Japanese designer and founder of Miyake Design Studio (1970) and the ISSEY MIYAKE brand; known for the "a piece of cloth" concept, Pleats Please garment pleating, A-POC, and the Kyoto Prize.
Izabel Goulart
Izabel Goulart (Maria Izabel Goulart Dourado, born 1984) is a Brazilian model from São Carlos, São Paulo, a Victoria's Secret Angel 2005–2008 who walked the brand's shows through 2016, later modeling for Chanel, Givenchy, and Balenciaga, engaged to footballer Kevin Trapp.
İznik pottery
İznik pottery is Ottoman ceramics made in İznik (ancient Nicaea), Anatolia, from the mid-14th to the late 17th century, known for underglaze-painted dishes and tiles in cobalt blue and red.
J. Alexander (model)
J. Alexander (Alexander Jenkins), Miss J, is an American runway coach and TV personality from the South Bronx who coached models for Gaultier, Chanel, and Valentino, coached and judged America's Next Top Model from 2003, taught at SCAD, and revealed a 2022 stroke in Netflix's Reality Check.
J.Crew
J.Crew is an American preppy apparel retailer of J.Crew Group (with J.Crew Factory and Madewell), catalog-founded in 1983, bankrupt in 2020 with $1.65B debt swapped to equity under Anchorage Capital, now with 114 J.Crew, 160 Madewell, and 395 Factory US stores.
J.P. Stevens & Co.
J.P. Stevens & Co. was an American textile manufacturer founded in 1813 in Andover, Massachusetts, known for the 20-year union organizing campaign and consumer boycott that inspired the film Norma Rae.
Jabong.com
Jabong.com was an Indian online fashion e-commerce site launched in 2012 under Rocket Internet, which grew to about $500 million valuation before Myntra/Flipkart bought it in 2016 for $70 million and shut it in 2020.
Jack Lenor Larsen
Jack Lenor Larsen (1927–2020) was an American textile designer whose studio blended hand techniques with power weaving for high-end modern interiors, and who founded LongHouse Reserve.
Jack-o'-lantern
Jack-o'-lantern: carved, candle-lit pumpkin or vegetable lantern of Halloween. Named for the Irish Stingy Jack legend; originally a 1660s term for will-o'-the-wisp; turnips preceded American pumpkins.
Jacobean embroidery
Jacobean embroidery is an English embroidery style from the reign of James I (1603-1625), usually worked in crewel wool on linen twill, known for tree of life motifs, scrolling stems, and stylized flora and fauna.
Jade Jagger
Jade Jagger, full name Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger, is a British jewelry designer and creative director, daughter of Mick Jagger, who leads her own brand, Jade Jagger Jewellery.
Jaipur blue pottery
Jaipur blue pottery is a glazed, low-fired ceramic craft of Jaipur, Rajasthan, made from a quartz-based dough with no clay and painted in cobalt blue and white.
Jamdani (জামদানি)
Jamdani (জামদানি), also called Dhakai Jamdani, is a sheer, figured muslin cotton fabric handwoven around Dhaka, Bangladesh, using a discontinuous supplementary-weft technique; UNESCO-inscribed in 2013 and Bangladesh's first GI product (2016).
James Jebbia
James Jebbia, British-American founder of Supreme, the New York streetwear brand started as a 1994 Lafayette Street skate shop; pioneered Thursday drops, won the 2018 CFDA menswear award, and sold the company through Carlyle, VF, and EssilorLuxottica.
Jamie Bochert
Jamie Bochert (born 1978) is an American model and musician from New Jersey, discovered in 2002 in Los Angeles, runway debut for Ann Demeulemeester FW02, Marc Jacobs muse from 2008, Saint Laurent collaborator, performing music as Francis Wolf.
Jane Morris
Jane Morris, born Jane Burden (1839–1914), was an English embroiderer and artist's model who inspired Dante Gabriel Rossetti's paintings and ran the embroidery side of Morris & Co.
Janice Dickinson
Janice Dickinson, American model born 1955 in Brooklyn, self-proclaimed first supermodel, French Vogue cover model, ANTM judge for four seasons, Oxygen reality star, memoirist, and recording artist.
Japanese bondage
Japanese bondage, also known as kinbaku (緊縛, "tight binding") or shibari, is a form of rope bondage that took shape in 20th-century Japan and is now practiced worldwide.
Japanese clothing
Japanese clothing (wafuku, kimono, and Western yofuku) covers traditional straight-cut garments, the postwar shift to Western dress, a 98.6% import-reliant clothing economy, falling garment prices, recycling policy, and a shrinking kimono market.
Japanning
Japanning: European imitation of East Asian lacquer using shellac, sandarac, and spirit or oil varnishes, heat-dried and polished; codified by Stalker and Parker's 1688 treatise, centered in England, France, and Germany, later industrialized on tinplate and papier-mâché.
Japanophilia
Japanophilia is the appreciation and love of Japanese culture, people, or history (Japanese: shinnichi, 親日), distinct from Japonisme, the 19th-20th century Western art movement sparked by Japan's 1854 opening, the 1867 Paris Exposition, and collectors such as Charles Longfellow.
Jarah Mariano
Jarah Mariano is an American model known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2008 and 2009. She is also the wife of actor Milo Ventimiglia.
Jasmine Lennard
Jasmine Lennard, English model and reality-TV personality, known for Make Me a Supermodel (2005), her 2006 sacking from its Extra spin-off, and Celebrity Big Brother 2012; daughter of Brian Lennard and Marilyn Galsworthy.
Jasmine Sanders
Jasmine Sanders, aka Golden Barbie (born 1991), German-American model raised in South Carolina; Miu Miu Fall 2016 breakout, SI Swimsuit 2019 Rookie of the Year and 2020 cover star.
Jasmine Tookes
Jasmine Tookes (born 1991) is an American model from Huntington Beach, California, a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2015 who wore the $3 million 2016 Bright Night Fantasy Bra and opened the 2025 VS show while pregnant; founder of the Brunel beauty line.
Jasperware
Jasperware is a fine-grained, unglazed stoneware invented by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1770s at his Etruria works in Staffordshire, decorated with white reliefs imitating antique cameos.
JCPenney
JCPenney, historically the J.C. Penney Company, is an American department store retailer founded by James Cash Penney in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 1902 and now part of Catalyst Brands.
JD Sports
JD Sports, main fascia of JD Sports Fashion Plc (John David Sports), British sports fashion retailer founded 1981 in Bury; FTSE 100, 4,800+ stores in 51 countries, FY26 revenue £12,662m, distinct from JD.com.
Jean Patou
Jean Patou (1880 or 1887–1936) was a French couturier who founded his Paris house in 1914, pioneered corset-free dress and women's sportswear with muse Suzanne Lenglen, created the JP monogram and the perfume Joy, and led a house later headed by Lagerfeld and Lacroix.