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Mao suit
Mao suit, Chinese Zhongshan suit (中山装), a tunic jacket with turn-down collar and four pockets named for Sun Yat-sen; adopted as Nationalist official dress in 1929, near-universal in Mao-era China, now worn mainly at state ceremonies.
Māori traditional textiles
Māori traditional textiles: woven and plaited fibre arts of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, based on harakeke flax and muka fibre, using whatu finger twining, raranga plaiting, tāniko borders and tukutuku panels, producing prestige cloaks (kākahu) and practical baskets, mats and nets.
Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer, founder of Marc Jacobs International with Robert Duffy; famed for the 1992 Perry Ellis grunge collection and Louis Vuitton creative director 1997–2013; brand sold by LVMH to WHP Global and G-III in 2026.
Marcus Schenkenberg
Marcus Schenkenberg (Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop), Swedish model born 1968, first prominent male supermodel via the 1991 Calvin Klein Bruce Weber campaign; later actor, author, and businessman.
Mardi Gras Indians
Mardi Gras Indians, also called Black Masking Indians, are New Orleans African American tribes who parade in year-long hand-beaded suits with call-and-response chants on Mardi Gras, Super Sunday, and St. Joseph's Night, honoring Native American aid to enslaved people.
Margaret Josephs
Margaret Josephs, American fashion designer and TV personality; founder of Macbeth Collection (1999) and star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey (2017-2026); also Candie Couture, Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget, and Soirée mocktails.
Margaux Hemingway
Margaux Hemingway (Margot Hemingway), American fashion model and actress, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, sister of Mariel; 1975 Fabergé $1 million contract, film Lipstick (1976); died July 1, 1996, suicide by phenobarbital.
Margilan ikat
Margilan ikat is resist-dyed silk and silk-cotton cloth from Margilan in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley, known locally as abrbandi, with fabrics like atlas and adras recognized by UNESCO in 2017.
Maria Adelborg
Maria Adelborg (Eleonora Amalia Maria Adelborg, 1849–1940) was a Swedish textile artist and handicrafts-movement pioneer, pattern-designer for Selma Giöbel and Handarbetets Vänner, known for the Gagnefmattan rug, Rome Brigittine chapel rugs, and Sofia church chasubles.
Maria Grazia Chiuri
Maria Grazia Chiuri (born 1964, Rome) is an Italian fashion designer, Fendi Chief Creative Officer since 2025 and Christian Dior's first female creative director (2016-2025), known for the Baguette, Rockstud, Book Tote, and feminist runway messaging.
Mariano Fortuny (designer)
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871–1949) was a Spanish painter, photographer, and designer who worked in Venice, best known for the Delphos, a heat-pleated silk gown patented in 1909.
Marisa Miller
Marisa Miller, born Marisa Lee Bertetta in 1978, is an American model who appeared in seven Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues and covered the 2008 issue.
Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer (M&S), British retailer founded 1884 by Michael Marks at Kirkgate Market, Leeds, partnered with Tom Spencer 1894; own-label food, fashion and home; listed 1926; hit by 2025 cyberattack; revenue £17.3bn.
Marshall Field's
Marshall Field's (Marshall Field & Company), Chicago's flagship department store from 1881, famed for its State Street store, Walnut Room, Christmas windows, and Frango Mints, rebranded as Macy's in 2006.
Marshalls
Marshalls, an American off-price retailer founded in 1956 in Beverly, Massachusetts and owned by TJX since 1995, sells brand-name apparel and home goods 20–60% below department stores via opportunistic buying, with 1,000+ US and Canadian stores.
Martaban jars
Martaban jars are large stoneware storage jars named after the port of Martaban (modern Mottama) in Lower Myanmar, used to ship water, oil, wine, and spices from the 13th century onward.
Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela, Belgian designer born 1957, founded Maison Martin Margiela in Paris in 1988 with Jenny Meirens; known for deconstruction, tabi boots, blank white labels, anonymity, Hermès 1997-2003, and departure in 2009.
Mary Jackson (artist)
Mary Jackson (born 1945, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) is a Gullah sweetgrass basketweaver and MacArthur and NEA Heritage Fellow whose sculptural coiled baskets differ from the British NEAC painter Mary Jackson born 1936.
Mary Quant
Mary Quant (Barbara Mary Quant, 1930–2023) was a British fashion designer and retail pioneer of Swinging London; she popularized the miniskirt, colored tights, hot pants, and PVC wet-look clothing from her 1955 King's Road boutique Bazaar, built a mass-market brand with the daisy logo, and received an OBE (1966) and a Damehood (2015).
Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival (MDSW): annual fiber festival since 1974 at Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD, first full weekend in May; 250+ vendors, 600+ sheep, Sheep-to-Shawl competition, fleece sale.
Masaba Gupta (मसाबा गुप्ता)
Masaba Gupta (मसाबा गुप्ता), born 1989, is an Indian fashion designer, entrepreneur, and actor, daughter of Neena Gupta and Viv Richards. She founded House of Masaba in 2009, launched LoveChild in 2022, and stars in Netflix's Masaba Masaba.
Mask
Mask: a face covering used for ritual, theater, disguise, and protection across cultures since 7000 BC; includes surgical masks from Mikulicz's 1897 design, 1918 pandemic mandates, and modern respirators.
Masquerade ball
Masquerade ball: a masked dance, from Italian mascarata (English 1590s). Documented in Venice from 1268, central to 18th-century Venetian Carnival and Georgian London, revived with Carnevale in 1979.
Massimo Dutti
Massimo Dutti is a Spanish fashion brand founded in Barcelona in 1985 by Armando Lasauca and owned by Inditex since 1991. A premium Zara sibling selling menswear, womenswear, and accessories, it ran €2,019 million in FY2025 sales across 511 stores.
Matchgirls' strike
The Matchgirls' strike, July 1888: about 1,400 women and girls at Bryant & May's Bow match factory in London walked out over fines, low pay and phossy jaw from white phosphorus, won their demands, and helped launch New Unionism.
Matekino Lawless
Matekino Lawless is a New Zealand Māori master weaver of Ngāti Maniapoto descent, an early advocate for reclaiming raranga and whatu, made an ONZM in 2023.
Matryoshka doll
Matryoshka (матрёшка), also called Russian nesting doll: a turned wooden doll holding smaller dolls inside, invented in the early 1890s in the Mamontovs' Moscow 'Detkoye vospitanie' workshop by Malyutin and Zvyozdochkin and bronze-medaled at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Matthieu Blazy
Matthieu Blazy (born 1984, Paris) is a French-Belgian fashion designer, Chanel's artistic director since December 2024 and former Bottega Veneta creative director (2021-2024), known for trompe-l'oeil leather craft and the 2025 debut that sparked "Matthieu Mania."
Maurizio Gucci
Maurizio Gucci (1948–1995), grandson of founder Guccio Gucci, last family head of the Gucci fashion house; inherited 50% in 1983, sold to Investcorp in 1993, murdered in Milan in 1995 by a hitman hired by ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani.
Max Alexander (fashion designer)
Max Alexander (born 2016, Los Angeles) is an American child fashion designer behind the Couture to the Max label, Guinness record holder as youngest runway designer, and the youngest designer to show at Paris Fashion Week in March 2026.