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Midriff
Midriff: the part of the torso between chest and waist, also called the diaphragm in anatomy; from Old English midhrif (mid + hrif, belly). Central to fashion history, midriff exposure moved from dance wear to mainstream apparel by the 1940s.
Mike the Tiger
Mike the Tiger is the live Bengal tiger mascot of LSU in Baton Rouge since 1936, begun with Mike I bought from the Little Rock Zoo for $750; Mike VII, from a Florida sanctuary, is the only live tiger on a U.S. college campus.
Miles McMillan
Miles McMillan is an American model and painter who studied fine arts at NYU. He is known for his runway campaigns for Dior and his oil painting.
Millefleur tapestry
A millefleur tapestry is a woven wall hanging covered with a dense scatter of small flowering plants, popular in Franco-Flemish workshops from about 1450 to the early 1500s.
Mimbres Classic Black-on-White
Mimbres Classic Black-on-White, or Mimbres Style III, is a painted pottery type made by the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico from about A.D. 1000.
Ming Xi (奚梦瑶)
Ming Xi (奚梦瑶), born 1989 in Shanghai, is a Chinese supermodel and actress who debuted at Givenchy couture in 2010, walked Victoria's Secret six times from 2013, fell famously at the 2017 Shanghai show, married Mario Ho in 2019, and returned to the VS runway in 2026.
Mingei
Mingei (民芸) is the Japanese folk-craft movement launched in 1925 by the philosopher Yanagi Sōetsu with potters Hamada Shōji and Kawai Kanjirō, celebrating ordinary, useful objects made by anonymous craftsmen.
Miniskirt
Miniskirt: a skirt or dress with a hemline well above the knee, the iconic 1960s fashion. Associated with Mary Quant and André Courrèges; name reportedly from the Mini car; hemlines really short only by 1966.
Mino washi
Mino washi (美濃和紙) is traditional Japanese paper made in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, dating to at least 702 and ranked among Japan's three great washi traditions.
Minoan snake goddess figurines
Minoan snake goddess figurines: faience statuettes with snakes from the Temple Repositories at Knossos, found by Arthur Evans in 1903, dated c. 1600 BCE, heavily reconstructed and contested as forgeries.
Miranda Kerr
Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel and entrepreneur; first Australian Victoria's Secret Angel (2007); founder and CEO of certified organic skincare brand KORA Organics (2009); lives in Los Angeles with Evan Spiegel.
Misa Hylton
Misa Hylton (born 1978, Mount Vernon, NY), also credited as Hylton-Brim, is an American hip-hop fashion stylist, founder of the Misa Hylton Fashion Academy (2012), and MCM Global Creative Partner, known for Lil' Kim's 1999 VMAs look and Mary J. Blige styling.
Mississippian culture pottery
Mississippian culture pottery, the shell-tempered ceramic tradition of the Mississippian period (ca. A.D. 900–1600) in the southeastern and mid-continental United States, defined by crushed mussel-shell temper, thin walls, effigy bowls, and household production.
Mitre
Mitre: the liturgical head-covering of Western bishops and certain prelates, derived from the papal camelaucum; first worn in Rome by the mid-tenth century, shaped into the modern form by 1150, worn in three grades and removed for prayer.
Miu Miu
Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada's 1993-founded luxury fashion brand within the Prada Group, named after her nickname, shows in Paris and is known for Women's Tales films, the viral SS22 micro mini skirt, and record retail growth (+93% in FY2024).
Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada (Maria Bianchi, born 1949) is the Italian designer who turned her grandfather's 1913 Milan leather goods house into Prada and founded Miu Miu (1993) and Fondazione Prada; co-creative director of Prada with Raf Simons since 2020.
Miyakojima City Cultural Experience Village
Miyakojima City Cultural Experience Village (宮古島市体験工芸村) is a group of eight hands-on craft workshops inside the Miyakojima City Tropical Botanical Garden in Hirara, Okinawa. Opened May 2009 with nine workshops; offers shisa pottery, weaving, indigo dyeing, shellwork, and cooking.
Moccasin
Moccasin is a heelless shoe of soft leather, traditionally used by Indigenous peoples of North America. It is made from tanned hides and can be plain or decorated.
Mod (subculture)
Mods (modernists), a British youth subculture from late-1950s London built on sharp tailored fashion, soul and R&B music, Vespa and Lambretta scooters, and the 1964 clashes with Rockers and 1979 revival.
Model (art)
Model (art) covers the sculptor's preliminary model (maquette, bozzetto), the modelling technique in soft media, the posing artist's model and mannequin, and models raised to finished artworks.
Modesty
Modesty: propriety in dress, speech, or conduct, and humility about oneself. Cross-culturally variable norms shaped by religion and culture; Islamic hayaa; modest fashion market near $433bn by 2028.
Mohair
Mohair is the lustrous hair of the Angora goat (Capra hircus), distinct from angora rabbit fiber. Key facts: 24-46 micron diameter by age, sheared twice yearly, South Africa produces over half the global clip, certified under the Responsible Mohair Standard.
Moleskin
Moleskin (molskinn) is a heavy, densely woven cotton fustian fabric, satin or twill weave, sheared and brushed on one side for a suede-like nap resembling mole fur; no mole skin is used. Historic European workwear, military, and country-clothing cloth.
Mollusk Surf Shop
Mollusk Surf Shop, also Mollusk, is a family-owned California surf shop and clothing brand founded in 2005 in San Francisco's Outer Sunset by John McCambridge and Johanna St. Clair, with Venice Beach and Santa Barbara stores, custom California-made boards, and an in-house apparel line.
Molly Sims
Molly Sims (born 1973, Murray, Kentucky) is an American model, actress, and entrepreneur: host of MTV's House of Style, Delinda Deline on NBC's Las Vegas, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, and founder of YSE Beauty.
Moncler
Moncler, short for Monestier-de-Clermont near Grenoble, is an Italian luxury fashion brand founded in 1952 by René Ramillon and André Vincent, famous for down jackets, the 1954 K2 expedition, Remo Ruffini's 2003 acquisition, and the Stone Island deal.
Mongolian felt-making
Mongolian felt-making, known in Mongolian as esgii urlal, is the traditional craft of producing felt from livestock wool for ger coverings, clothing, carpets, and footwear; it is listed in Mongolia's national intangible cultural heritage inventory.
Monokini
Monokini: originally Rudi Gernreich's 1964 topless swimsuit, a bikini bottom with two thin straps; now also a one-piece swimsuit with cutouts imitating a bikini. Coined from mono- plus bikini.
Mooning
Mooning, also called chucking a browneye, is the act of exposing one's bare buttocks in public as a joke, insult, or protest, popularized from 1960s American student slang.
Moradabad brassware
Moradabad brassware is the handcrafted brass ware produced in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, a city known as the Brass City whose GI-registered craft employs an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 artisans.