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Robert Award for Best Costume Design
The Robert Award for Best Costume Design (Årets kostumedesigner) is a Danish Film Academy Robert Award given annually since 1984 to the year's best Danish film or TV costume designer, judged by academy costumiers; recent winners include Queen Margrethe II and Malgorzata Fudala.
Roberto Cavalli
Roberto Cavalli (1940-2024), Italian fashion designer and founder of the eponymous Florence house, known for animal prints, patented leather printing, sandblasted and stretch jeans, and celebrity glamour.
Rocawear
Rocawear is an urban apparel brand founded in 1999 by Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and Kareem Burke; it reached hundreds of millions in sales and was sold to Iconix in 2007 for $204 million.
Rohit Bal (रोहित बल)
Rohit Bal (रोहित बल), Indian couture designer born 1961 in Srinagar, founded his eponymous label in 1990; Time called him 'India's Master of fabric and fantasy'; known for lotus and peacock motifs; died 1 November 2024.
Rola (ローラ) (model)
Rola (ローラ, birth name Eri Sato), Japanese fashion model, TV personality, actress, and singer born 1990 in Tokyo; ViVi exclusive model, variety-show star, Resident Evil actress, LA-based independent creator and farmer.
Romee Strijd
Romee Strijd, Dutch model born 1995 in Zoetermeer, was a Victoria's Secret Angel 2015-2018 after her 2014 debut; walked Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Off-White; IMG-signed, now influencer and NAETUR founder.
Rookwood Pottery
Rookwood Pottery is an American art pottery company founded in 1880 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, operating until 1967 and revived in Cincinnati today.
Rope
Rope, also called fibre rope, is a thick, pliable cord formed when strands of fibers, yarns, or wires are twisted or braided together so it can bear weight.
Rope bondage
Rope bondage, also called shibari (縛り) or kinbaku (緊縛), is the consensual practice of tying people with rope, associated with BDSM but also with performance art; its claimed hojōjutsu origin is contested, and safety centers on nerve and circulation risks.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (born 1987), British model, actress, and founder of Rose Inc; Victoria's Secret Angel and face of Burberry Body; starred in Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Rosie Lee Tompkins
Rosie Lee Tompkins, pseudonym of Effie Mae Howard (1936-2006), was an African American improvisational quiltmaker of Richmond, California, discovered by collector Eli Leon, shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and celebrated in a 2020 BAMPFA retrospective.
Ross Stores
Ross Stores, Inc., known for its Ross Dress for Less brand, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1982 and headquartered in Dublin, California, with over 2,200 stores.
Roubaix
Roubaix is a city in northern France near the Belgian border that grew from 8,300 inhabitants in 1800 into one of the world's leading textile centers by 1900.
Roy Raymond
Roy Raymond (1947–1993), American founder of Victoria's Secret, opened the first store in Palo Alto in 1977 with Gaye Raymond and sold the company to Les Wexner for $1 million in 1982.
Royal blue
Royal blue is a deep, vivid, often purplish blue color name first recorded in 1810-20, tied to a Queen Charlotte dress competition, with variants queen blue and imperial blue and standards like Pantone 19-3955 TCX.
Royal christening gown
Royal christening gown: the 1841 Honiton lace and Spitalfields silk Royal Christening Robe commissioned by Queen Victoria, worn by 62 royal babies, retired in 2004 and replaced by an exact replica still in use.
Royal Doulton
Royal Doulton: English ceramics brand founded 1815 in Lambeth, London, by John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts; Royal Warrant 1901; known for stoneware pipes, HN figurines, and fine china; Fiskars Group since 2015.
Ruff (clothing)
The ruff, known in Dutch as the millstone collar, is a detachable pleated collar in starched linen or lace worn in western Europe from the mid-1500s to the mid-1600s.
Ruslana Korshunova (Руслана Сергеевна Коршунова)
Ruslana Korshunova (Руслана Коршунова), the "Russian Rapunzel," was a Kazakhstani model of the Nina Ricci Nina campaign who died in a 2008 Manhattan fall ruled suicide, later linked to Epstein flight logs.
RVCA
RVCA ("rew-ka") is an American surf-skate lifestyle apparel brand founded in 2001 in Costa Mesa, California by Pat Tenore and Conan Hayes; owned since 2023 by Authentic Brands Group after Billabong and Boardriders.
Ryukyu lacquerware
Ryukyu lacquerware (琉球漆器, ryūkyū shikki) is lacquerware developed in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on Shuri in Okinawa, once produced under the Ryukyu Kingdom as tribute and trade goods.
Ryusou
Ryusou (琉装), or Uchinā-sugai, is Okinawa's traditional attire from the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429–1879): wider ventilated sleeves, a front-tied sash instead of an obi, bingata dyeing, and bashofu textiles.
Sabrina Dhowre
Sabrina Dhowre Elba, Somali-Canadian model, actress and activist, IFAD Goodwill Ambassador since 2020, wife of Idris Elba, co-founder of S'ABLE Labs skincare and the Coupledom podcast.
Sabyasachi Mukherjee
Sabyasachi Mukherjee (সব্যসাচী মুখোপাধ্যায়), born 1974, is an Indian couturier from Kolkata and founder of the Sabyasachi luxury label (1999), known for bridal couture, the H&M Wanderlust controversy, ABFRL's 51% stake, and Met Gala dressing.
Sacagawea dollar
Sacagawea dollar, also Native American dollar: US golden-colored $1 coin issued 2000-2008 with Sacagawea obverse by Glenna Goodacre, continued 2009-present with yearly Native American reverses; manganese brass clad, mostly face value except Cheerios and mule rarities.
Sackcloth (שַׂק)
Sackcloth (Hebrew saq, שַׂק; Greek sakkos) is coarse dark goat- or camel-hair cloth of the biblical world, used for grain sacks and, worn as a garment, to signal mourning, penitence, submission, and national crisis; attested across 19 Old Testament books and the Near East.
Safavid silk and metal-thread textiles of Isfahan
Safavid silk and metal-thread textiles of Isfahan are luxury silk brocades and velvets woven in Isfahan from 1598 to 1722, known for gold brocade called zarbaft.
Safavid velvet
Safavid velvet is the cut and voided silk velvet woven in Iran under the Safavid dynasty, 1501 to 1722, for royal tents, garments, and gifts.
Safety pin
Safety pin: a coiled spring-wire fastener with a clasp that shields its point, invented by Walter Hunt, patented April 10, 1849 (US 6,281), sold for $400; distinct from fibulae and quick-release pins.
Sagging (fashion)
Sagging (fashion): pants worn below the waist exposing underwear, traced to beltless US prison uniforms, spread by hip-hop in the late 1980s and 1990s, later targeted by largely repealed anti-sagging ordinances.