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Philipp Plein
Philipp Plein, German designer born 1978 in Munich, founded his namesake maximalist luxury brand in 1998 (furnishings first, clothing from 2004). Headquartered in Lugano, self-financed, sole-owned, with Plein Sport and Billionaire labels, rhinestone skull motifs, and theatrical shows.
Phoebe Dahl
Phoebe Dahl, American fashion designer, granddaughter of Roald Dahl; founder of Faircloth & Supply (Los Angeles, 2013), a one-for-one linen label donating school uniforms to Nepali girls; later Gen Art creative director and Sometime Never travel club founder.
Phoebe Philo
Phoebe Philo: British designer, Central Saint Martins graduate, creative director of Chloé (2001–2006) and Céline (2008–2017), creator of the Paddington and Luggage bags, and founder since 2023 of her own LVMH-backed eponymous label.
Phoenix Crown
The phoenix crown (凤冠, fengguan) is a Chinese ceremonial crown for empresses and high-ranking women, decorated with phoenixes, gold dragons, and kingfisher feathers; four Ming examples survive from the Dingling tomb.
Phoenix Jones
Phoenix Jones is the costumed crime-fighting persona of Benjamin Fodor, a Seattle MMA fighter who led the Rain City Superhero Movement from 2010, was arrested for pepper spray assault in 2011 and drug dealing in 2020, and inspired the podcast The Superhero Complex.
Phrygian cap
Phrygian cap (bonnet phrygien): soft conical cap with forward-bent tip from ancient Phrygia, Anatolia; worn by freed Roman slaves, became the red bonnet rouge of the French Revolution, Marianne's emblem, and the Paris 2024 Olympic mascot.
Phulkari (ਫੁਲਕਾਰੀ)
Phulkari (ਫੁਲਕਾਰੀ), "flower work," is Punjab's folk embroidery: silk floss (pat) darned from the reverse of handwoven cotton (khaddar) into shawls and baghs, a dowry tradition revived after the 1947 Partition and GI-tagged in 2011.
Pia Whitesell
Pia Whitesell, born Pia Loyola Blanco in 1983 and formerly known as Pia Miller, is a Chilean-born Australian model, actress and entrepreneur known for Home and Away's Katarina Chapman, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, beauty ambassadorships, and her 2021 marriage to agent Patrick Whitesell.
Piedra de sacrificio
A piedra de sacrificio is a stone altar, above all the Aztec techcatl, on which victims were stretched while priests extracted the heart as an offering to a deity.
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Cardin (1922 to 2020), was a French fashion designer who founded his Paris couture house in 1950 and defined 1960s Space Age fashion.
Pileus (hat)
The pileus (Greek pilos) was an ancient brimless felt cap worn by Greek workers and Roman priests, given to freed slaves as a liberty symbol, and later conflated with the Phrygian cap of the French Revolution.
Pin
Pin (sewing): thin pointed fastener of steel or brass holding fabric layers before stitching. Also safety pins and T-pins. Distinguished by shaft diameter 0.4–0.8 mm, length 1/2"–2 1/8", head type, and point style per fabric.
Pin-up model
A pin-up model, or pin-up girl, is a person, usually a woman, whose mass-produced photograph or drawing is displayed on walls, a term Webster's defined in 1941.
Pink (Victoria's Secret)
Pink (PINK) is Victoria's Secret's younger-skewing lifestyle brand, launched in 2002 for college-age women. Known for bras, apparel, and body mists; peaked near $3 billion in 2018 sales, then declined and is now being revived for 18-to-24-year-olds.
Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: raspberry-pink wool bouclé suit with navy trim and pillbox hat worn in Dallas on November 22, 1963; an authorized Chez Ninon copy of a Chanel design, now sealed at the National Archives until 2103.
Pinky ring
Pinky ring: any ring worn on the little finger (Dutch "pinkje"), most iconically the engraved signet. Victorian unmarried wear, 20th-century gangster associations, queer signaling, and a modern revival led by women and genderless designs.
Pirot kilim
The Pirot kilim (пиротски ћилим) is a flat-woven woollen rug made in Pirot, southeastern Serbia, on a vertical loom, with two sides of equal quality.
Pithos (πίθος)
Pithos (πίθος, plural pithoi; Latin dolium) is the Greek name for a large ceramic storage jar used from the Neolithic to the present for grain, oil, and wine, for jar burials, and traded across the Mediterranean, distinct from the smaller transport amphora.
Pixie Geldof
Pixie Geldof (Little Pixie Geldof), English model and singer, third daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates; fronted band Violet, released solo album I'm Yours (2016), walked for Chloé and Ashley Williams, and fronted Gucci's 2025 campaign.
Plague doctor costume
The plague doctor costume, also known as the beak doctor costume, is the beaked-mask outfit popularly associated with physicians treating plague in early modern Europe from the mid-seventeenth century.
Plains beadwork
Plains beadwork is the Indigenous art of the Great Plains of sewing glass trade beads onto hides and cloth, which replaced porcupine quillwork in the late 1800s.
Platform shoe
Platform shoe: footwear with a very thick, high sole under the whole foot. Known historically as chopines in Venice, revived by Ferragamo in 1938, disco-era 1970s, Spice Girls 1990s, and Balenciaga 2017.
Playboy Bunny
Playboy Bunny: waitress at a Playboy Club wearing the trademarked bunny suit (corset leotard, ears, tail, collar, cuffs), debuted in Chicago in 1960; concept by Ilsa Taurins, refined by Hugh Hefner, distinct from the bunny logo.
Plus-size clothing
Plus-size clothing is apparel for bodies above a retailer's standard range, commonly from US size 14. Covers stoutwear history via Lane Bryant (1904), ASTM 14W–40W sizing, a USD 311.4 billion global market, fit problems, and the GLP-1-era retail pullback.
Plus-size model
Plus-size model: a fashion model above the industry's straight-size range, also called curve models. Distinctive facts: the modeling threshold sits far below retail plus-size (a US 10 can qualify), non-White models are 4.5 times more likely to be plus-size, and runway plus-size share is only about 0.3%.
Pnina Tornai (פנינה תורני)
Pnina Tornai (פנינה תורני), Israeli couture bridal designer based at Kleinfeld Bridal since 2004 and star of TLC's Say Yes to the Dress, known for corseted Swarovski-crystal gowns, the Love by Pnina Tornai line, and Jared diamond jewelry.
Polar fleece
Polar fleece is a soft brushed polyester knit invented by Malden Mills with Patagonia around 1979-1981, sold in Micro/100/200/300 weights, warm, quick-drying, not windproof, and prone to microfiber shedding.
Polka dot
A polka dot is one of a number of round spots forming a regular pattern, especially on fabric, a fashion motif named for the polka dance craze.
Pollera
Pollera: Spanish American woman's skirt and traditional costume; Panama's embroidered national two-piece dress, Bolivia and Peru's layered cholita skirt, Ecuador's chola cuencana pleated skirt; Spanish colonial origin, 16th century onward.
Polo shirt
Polo shirt, also called tennis shirt or golf shirt: a collared, short-sleeved knit top with a buttoned placket, usually piqué cotton. Invented by René Lacoste (1927 design, L.12.12, launched 1933 with André Gillier); Fred Perry and Ralph Lauren Polo followed.