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Sailor Jerry
Sailor Jerry, born Norman Keith Collins (1911–1973), was a Honolulu tattoo artist who defined American traditional tattooing and whose name now fronts a William Grant & Sons spiced rum.
Saltaire
Saltaire, West Yorkshire: Victorian model industrial village built 1851–1876 by Sir Titus Salt around Salts Mill (opened 1853), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 under criteria (ii) and (iv), now an arts and heritage destination with David Hockney works.
Salvatore Ferragamo
Salvatore Ferragamo (1898-1960), Italian shoe designer and founder of the Ferragamo house; Hollywood "Shoemaker to the Stars" from 1923, returned to Florence in 1927, patented the cork wedge heel and built a global luxury group.
Samantha Hoopes
Samantha Hoopes (born 1991, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) is an American model and actress, a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit rookie in 2014 who posed for the issue seven years through 2020, a Guess model, and a Carl's Jr. commercial star; not the Rho research scientist of the same name.
Samarra culture
Samarra culture: Neolithic/Chalcolithic Mesopotamian archaeological culture of the middle Tigris (c.6300–5200 BC), distinct from Hassuna and Halaf, known for fine painted pottery and the earliest secure irrigation farming at Choga Mami.
Samarra ware
Samarra ware is the luxury glazed pottery of ninth-century Abbasid Iraq, first recovered from the palace city of Samarra in excavations of 1911 to 1913.
Sámi traditional dress
Sámi traditional dress, centered on the gákti (also gáppte, gapta, kofte, kolt), is the regional clothing of the Sámi people of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, made from reindeer leather and wool, identifying wearer's region and family, and protected as Sámi cultural heritage.
Samoan tatau
Samoan tatau (tātatau) is the indigenous tattooing tradition of the Sāmoan Islands, applied by master tattooists called tufuga tā tatau using hand-tapped tools; the English word tattoo derives from tatau.
Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater (1768-1835), English-born textile manufacturer called the father of the American Industrial Revolution, built the first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790-1793 and created the family-labor Rhode Island System.
San Ildefonso black-on-black pottery
San Ildefonso black-on-black pottery is a Pueblo style with matte black designs on a polished black surface, developed by Maria and Julian Martinez around 1918.
Sancak of Muhammad
The Sancak of Muhammad, also called Sancak-ı Şerif, is a banner attributed to the Prophet Muhammad that the Ottoman sultans acquired in 1517 and preserved at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.
Sand Island Surf Shop
Sand Island Surf Shop is a Honolulu, Hawaii surf shop at 2290 Alahao Pl Suite 202 selling new and used surfboards, fins, custom orders, and shipping, named for the nearby Sand Island surf break.
Sanganeri printing
Sanganeri printing, also called Sanganeri Hand Block Printing, is a hand block printing craft from Sanganer near Jaipur, Rajasthan, known for delicate floral motifs on white grounds.
Sanguszko Carpet
The Sanguszko Carpet is a celebrated Safavid Persian carpet of the late 16th century, taken as war booty at the 1621 Battle of Khotin and now in Japan.
Santino Rice
Santino Rice, full name Santino Quinto Rice, is an American fashion designer and reality personality, runner-up on Project Runway 2006 and a judge on the first two seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Santo Versace
Santo Versace (Santo Domenico Versace) is an Italian entrepreneur who co-founded the Versace fashion house with his brother Gianni and was chief executive until 2004.
Sara Sampaio
Sara Sampaio (Sara Pinto Sampaio), Portuguese model and actor born 1991 in Porto; first Portuguese Victoria's Secret Angel (2015-2021), SI Swimsuit Rookie of the Year 2014, and Eve Teschmacher in Superman (2025).
Sarah McDaniel
Sarah Rose McDaniel (born 1995, Roseville, California) is an American model with heterochromia iridum who covered Playboy's first non-nude issue in March 2016 and appeared in Mark Ronson and G-Eazy music videos.
Sarah Murdoch
Sarah Murdoch, born Sarah O'Hare (1972, London), is an Australian model, actress, and TV presenter, Wonderbra face, Head Over Heels actress, Australia's Next Top Model host, Lachlan Murdoch's wife, and MCRI co-chair.
Sardinian traditional dress
Sardinian traditional dress is the folk costume of Sardinia, Italy, with as many as 400 village-specific outfits of wool, silk, and silver jewelry, now worn at festivals.
Sari
Sari (saree): unstitched draped women's garment of South Asia, 4–9 m long with field, borders, and pallu; over 80 regional drapes including Nivi, Bengali, Gujarati; India's sari market $12 bn in 2024.
Sarong
Sarong (Malay sarung, "sheath"): a tubular wrapped lower-body garment of Southeast Asia, also called sampot, longyi, or phaa sinh; worn by men and women, decorated with batik and ikat, and repeatedly revived in Western fashion from Dorothy Lamour to Dries Van Noten.
Sasanian silk
Sasanian silk is the luxury silk woven in the Sasanian Empire of Iran (224-651 CE) from Chinese raw silk, famous for animal motifs in medallion borders.
Sasanian textiles
Sasanian textiles are the woven luxury fabrics produced in, or modeled on the styles of, the Sasanian Persian empire (224–651 CE), best known through fragments found from Egypt to Japan.
Sasha Luss
Sasha Luss (Aleksandra Alexeyevna Luss), Russian model and actress born 1992 in Magadan. Discovered by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel in 2012; peaked in 2013 with 124 shows; starred in Besson's Valerian and Anna.
Sashiko (刺し子)
Sashiko (刺し子), also called sashiko-zashi, is a Japanese running-stitch needlework used to reinforce, repair, and warm layered cloth, famous for Aomori's kogin-zashi and hishizashi diamond patterns and now practiced worldwide as visible mending.
Satin
Satin (sateen in weft-faced or non-silk form) is a weave structure, not a fiber: yarns float over four or more threads, giving a lustrous face, best drape, and snag-prone long floats; invented in China over two thousand years ago.
Satsuma ware
Satsuma ware, or Satsuma-yaki (薩摩焼), is Japanese pottery from Kagoshima Prefecture, begun around 1598 by Korean potters brought back by the Shimazu clan after the invasions of Korea.
Saucony
Saucony ("sock-a-knee") is an American running footwear brand founded in 1898 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, named for Saucony Creek. Owned by Wolverine Worldwide since 2012, it makes the Endorphin, Ride, Triumph, Hurricane, and Guide shoe lines.
Saudi national dress
Saudi national dress: the thobe-based formal attire for men and the regionally varied women's garments of Saudi Arabia's thirteen provinces, including the bisht (mishlah), ghutra, agal, abaya, and named regional dresses such as the Najdi Aseeri and Hejazi al-Masdah.