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Antique
Antique: a collectible object valued for age, rarity, quality, or beauty, commonly defined as at least 100 years old, distinct from vintage (20–99 years) and collectibles; covers identification, valuation, market size, and trade law.
Antonio D'Amico
Antonio D'Amico (1959–2022) was an Italian designer and model, partner of Gianni Versace from 1982 until Versace's 1997 murder, who later founded his own fashion lines.
Anya Ayoung-Chee
Anya Ayoung-Chee (born 1981) is a Trinidadian fashion designer, model, and beauty queen, Miss Trinidad and Tobago Universe 2008, winner of Project Runway Season 9 in 2011, and founder of the Pilar, Anya de Rouge, and cANYAval fashion ventures.
Áo dài
Áo dài: Vietnam's national garment, a fitted two-panel tunic over wide-leg trousers. Shaped by the 1744 Nguyễn Phúc Khoát reform, Minh Mạng's 1828 decree, Lemur's 1930s redesign, and the 1960 Raglan cut; worn as school uniform and formal dress.
Apadravya
Apadravya: vertical male genital piercing through the glans of the penis, usually through the urethra, fitted with a straight barbell; named from the Kama Sutra and distinguished from the horizontal ampallang only by orientation.
Appliqué
Appliqué, from French appliquer (to apply), is a needlework technique of stitching cut fabric shapes onto a ground cloth; distinct from patchwork and reverse appliqué, it dates back at least 3,300 years to Tutankhamun's Egypt.
Apron
Apron: a front-of-body protective garment, first recorded in English as "napron" in the early 14th century. Worn as workwear, servant's badge, 18th-century fashion accessory, mid-20th-century homemaker symbol, and modern PPE including lead X-ray aprons.
Arakawa Toyozō
Arakawa Toyozō (荒川豊蔵; 1894–1985) was a Japanese ceramic artist from Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, who revived Shino and Setoguro pottery and in 1955 became an inaugural Living National Treasure.
Aran jumper
Aran jumper (geansaí Árann), also called Aran or fisherman sweater: a heavy cream cable-knit Irish sweater from the Aran Islands, Galway Bay. A 20th-century invention tied to the 1891 Congested Districts Board, popularized by Vogue in 1956, with later myths of clan patterns and drowned fishermen.
Aran knitting
Aran knitting is the Irish tradition of hand-knitted cream sweaters with cabled panels, associated with the Aran Islands and dating only to the early 20th century.
Arcadia Group
Arcadia Group was the British clothing retail group behind Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Evans and Wallis. Founded as Burton in 1903, bought by Philip Green in 2002, it collapsed into administration in November 2020 and its brands were sold to ASOS and Boohoo.
Argyle (pattern)
Argyle is a knitted diamond pattern derived from Clan Campbell of Argyll tartan, turned 90 degrees and cut on the bias, reworked by Pringle from the 1920s and tied to golf, socks, and sweaters.
Arianny Celeste
Arianny Celeste, born Penelope López Márquez in 1985, is an American model and television personality from Las Vegas, best known as the UFC's longest-running Octagon Girl, starting in 2006.
Aritzia
Aritzia is a Canadian women's fashion retailer founded in Vancouver in 1984 by Brian Hill, selling exclusive in-house brands and trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Arm knitting
Arm knitting: a needle-free hand-knitting technique using the forearms as needles, roughly 50 mm each, with super bulky yarn to make chunky blankets and scarves quickly.
Armani
Armani: Italian luxury fashion house founded in Milan in 1975 by Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti; brands Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Armani Exchange, Armani Privé; founder died September 2025, succession via Giorgio Armani Foundation.
Aromantic flag
Aromantic flag: five-stripe pride flag (dark green, light green, white, gray, black) for aromanticism, designed by Tumblr user Cameron Whimsy in 2014; replaced an earlier four-stripe flag and a yellow-center version.
Artificial cranial deformation
Artificial cranial deformation, also called head binding or head flattening, is the intentional molding of an infant skull with bandages, boards, or cradles to create a permanent shape, practiced worldwide from the Late Pleistocene to the 20th century as a marker of identity and status.
Artificial leather
Artificial leather, also called faux, synthetic, or vegan leather (leatherette), is a fabric- or nonwoven-based material with PVC, PU, or microfiber polymer coating imitating leather; patented from 1884, dominated by PU at 57.7% of the 2024 market.
Artisan
Artisan, also called craftsperson or craftsman, a skilled craft worker making objects partly or entirely by hand; classified in NOC 5244 and ILO ISCO 7331; central to UNESCO intangible heritage safeguarding, historic guild systems, and craft economies such as India's 64.66 lakh artisans.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Arunachalam Muruganantham, India's 'Pad Man', is the Coimbatore inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad machine and village micro-factory model, honored with the Padma Shri and TIME 100 recognition.
Asante goldwork
Asante goldwork is the goldsmithing tradition of the Asante people of southern Ghana, centered at Kumasi and known for cast royal regalia, jewelry, and gold-dust weights.
Asante stools
Asante stools (Twi: dwa) are carved wooden seats made by the Asante people of Ghana, serving as furniture, personal spiritual objects, and the principal symbols of Akan political authority.
ASAP Bari
ASAP Bari, born Jabari Shelton (1991, Harlem), is an A$AP Mob founding member and founder of the VLONE streetwear brand, known for the Nike Air Force 1 collaboration, the 2017 controversy, and later VLONE trademark litigation.
Ascot tie
Ascot tie: a broad, scarf-like necktie with wide square or pointed ends, pinned over the shirtfront, named after Ascot Heath racecourse; popular from the 1880s, worn with morning dress, distinct from the casual day cravat also called an ascot.
Ash Hudson
Ash Hudson (Albion Hudson) is an American designer, brother of Slash, founder of the streetwear brand Conart; he moved from Los Angeles to Tokyo in 2013 and curates his mother Ola Hudson's design archive.
Ashley Graham
Ashley Graham (born 1987, Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American plus-size, or curvy, model, designer, author and entrepreneur. First size-14 model on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover (2016); signed to IMG; Broadway debut in Chicago in 2025.
Ashley Nell Tipton
Ashley Nell Tipton (born 1991, San Diego) is an American plus-size fashion designer who won Project Runway Season 14 in 2015 with the show's first all plus-size finale collection, later partnering with JCPenney's Boutique+ and Simplicity.
Asian conical hat
Asian conical hat: wide cone-shaped sun-and-rain hat of palm, bamboo, or straw worn across East and Southeast Asia as nón lá (Vietnam), dǒulì (China), kasa (Japan), and satgat (Korea); the term coolie hat is now considered offensive.
Asics (アシックス)
Asics (アシックス) is a Kobe-based Japanese sporting-goods maker founded in 1949 by Kihachiro Onitsuka, renamed ASICS in the 1977 Onitsuka-GTO-JELENK merger; known for GEL cushioning, Onitsuka Tiger, and record FY2025 sales of 810.9 billion yen.