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Lydia Hearst
Lydia Hearst (Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw, born 1984) is an American model and actress, daughter of Patty Hearst, discovered by Steven Meisel for the April 2004 Vogue Italia cover, later a horror-film actress married to Chris Hardwick.
Lynn Hung
Lynn Hung (熊黛林, Xiong Dai Lin) is a Chinese model and actress born in Nanjing, based in Hong Kong, known for playing Ip Man's wife Cheung Wing-sing in the Ip Man films and for a 2002 China Best Professional Fashion Model award.
Lyocell
Lyocell, best known under the Tencel brand, is a regenerated cellulose fiber made by NMMO solvent spinning with closed-loop solvent recovery, developed by Courtaulds and distinguished from viscose by avoiding carbon disulfide chemistry.
Lyons silk
Lyons silk (la soierie lyonnaise) is the silk-weaving industry of Lyon, France, established in 1536, home of the canut weavers, the Canut revolts, and the Jacquard loom of 1801.
Macaroni (fashion)
Macaroni (fashion): 18th-century English hyper-fashionable men, c. 1760-1780, named for pasta from the Grand Tour; wore habit à la française, tall wigs, and were satirized in Darly macaroni prints.
Machine embroidery
Machine embroidery is the process of decorating fabric with thread using an embroidery machine, most often a computerized machine that follows a digitized design file to place stitches without a human guiding the needle.
Machine quilting
Machine quilting is the practice of stitching a quilt's top, batting, and backing together with a sewing machine rather than by hand, on a domestic machine or a longarm.
Mackintosh
Mackintosh: rubberised raincoat invented by Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, first sold in Glasgow in 1823; bonded-cotton fabric, generic "mac", brand now owned by Japan's Yagi Tsusho.
Macramé
Macramé is a loomless textile technique that knots cords into coarse lace or fringe, popular under Queen Victoria and revived in the 1960s and 1970s.
Macron (sportswear)
Macron is a Bologna-based Italian sportswear company founded in 1971, specializing in teamwear and technical sponsorships for football and rugby clubs, national teams, UEFA referees, and World Rugby, with 2025 revenue of €244.4 million.
Macy's
Macy's is the American department store chain founded by Rowland H. Macy in New York in 1858, flagship nameplate of Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M), known for its Herald Square store and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and executing the Bold New Chapter turnaround of about 150 store closures.
Macy's, Inc.
Macy's, Inc. (formerly Federated Department Stores) is the American holding company behind Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Bluemercury, NYSE ticker M. It ran 665 stores with $21.8 billion fiscal 2025 net sales and is executing the 2024 Bold New Chapter closure strategy.
Mădălina Diana Ghenea
Mădălina Diana Ghenea, Romanian actress and fashion model born 1987 in Slatina, known for Gattinoni runway work, Sophia Loren in House of Gucci, and the lead in Deep Fear (2023).
Made in USA
Made in USA is a U.S. country-of-origin labeling and advertising claim. Under FTC rules, an unqualified claim requires a product be 'all or virtually all' made in the United States, codified in the 2021 Made in USA Labeling Rule, 16 CFR Part 323.
Madeleine Vionnet
Madeleine Vionnet (1876–1975) was a French couturier who perfected the bias-cut dress, which clung to the body without corsetry and transformed fashion in the 1920s and 1930s.
Madeline Mulqueen
Madeline Mulqueen, Irish model from Limerick, known for the Rubberbandits' Horse Outside video, the Transformers: Age of Extinction red carpet tour in Irish designs, engagement to Jack Reynor, and later career as a stills and nature photographer.
Madhu Sapre (मधु सप्रे)
Madhu Sapre (मधु सप्रे), born 1971 in Nagpur, is an Indian model, Femina Miss India 1992 winner and Miss Universe 1992 second runner-up, India's leading 1990s supermodel, known for the 1995 Tuff shoes ad controversy and film Boom.
Madras (cloth)
Madras cloth: lightweight yarn-dyed plain-weave checked cotton hand woven in South India, named for Madras (Chennai). Known for bleeding vegetable dyes, Atlantic slave-trade currency, Caribbean national dress, and American preppy shirting.
Maija Isola
Maija Isola (1927–2001) was a Finnish textile designer and painter, the first designer for Marimekko, where she created over 500 patterns including the 1964 Unikko print.
Maison Margiela
Maison Margiela, Paris luxury fashion house founded in 1988 by Martin Margiela and Jenny Meirens, also Maison Martin Margiela. Known for blank white labels with four stitches, numbered line codes 0–23, upcycling, Replica, and Artisanal couture; owned by OTB Group, now led by Glenn Martens.
Malia Jones
Malia Jones (born 1977) is the American surfer, model, and swimwear designer, U.S. Women's Amateur Surfing champion at 15, who founded the Malia Jones swimwear line; distinct from several other people of the same name.
Mama Cax
Mama Cax (Cacsmy Brutus), Haitian-American model, blogger, and disability rights advocate who walked NYFW runways on a prosthetic leg, appeared on a 2018 Teen Vogue cover, worked with Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive and Savage X Fenty, and died in 2019 at 30.
Mandarin square
The mandarin square, or buzi (补子), is an embroidered rank badge sewn onto the robes of civil and military officials in Ming and Qing dynasty China, with birds for civil and beasts for military ranks.
Mango (retailer)
Mango (Mango Fashion Group) is a Barcelona-founded Spanish fashion retailer started in 1984 by Isak and Nahman Andic, with Woman, Man, Kids, Teen, and Home lines, 2,900+ stores in 120 markets, €3.8bn 2025 turnover, and 78% international sales.
Manish Malhotra (मनीष मल्होत्रा)
Manish Malhotra (मनीष मल्होत्रा), Indian fashion designer and Bollywood costume stylist; debut Swarg (1990), first Filmfare Best Costume Design for Rangeela (1995), founded House of Manish Malhotra in 2005, Met Gala debut 2025.
Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik, Spanish-born London shoe designer (born 1942, Canary Islands), founded his eponymous label in 1970 after Diana Vreeland urged him to make shoes. Known for the Hangisi, BB, and Maysale classics, family-run production in Italy, CBE 2007, and Sex and the City fame.
Mantle of Muhammad
The Mantle of Muhammad, known in Turkish as Hırka-i Saadet, is a cloak venerated in Islam as a garment of the Prophet Muhammad, kept at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
Mantle of Roger II
The Mantle of Roger II is a semicircular ceremonial cloak made in the royal workshop of Palermo in 1133/34 for Roger II, king of Norman Sicily.
Manuela Arbeláez
Manuela Arbeláez (Manuela Arbeláez Correa), Colombian-American model and actress born 1988 in Medellín; Price Is Right model since 2009, known for the 2015 $21,960 Five Price Tags car giveaway and her Manny Fuerte fitness program.
Manunggul Jar
Manunggul Jar: a National Cultural Treasure secondary burial jar in earthenware, 890–710 BC, 66.5 x 51.5 cm, from Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan, with a ship-of-the-dead lid of two figures rowing to the afterlife.