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Simon Porte Jacquemus
Simon Porte Jacquemus, French designer born in Salon-de-Provence, founded the Jacquemus label in Paris in 2009 at 19, naming it for his late mother's maiden name; 2023 sales near $280 million with L'Oréal holding 10% since 2025.
Sindhi embroidery (سنڌي ٿرت)
Sindhi embroidery (سنڌي ٿرت), known in Sindhi as ڀرت, is the hand-embroidery tradition of Sindh, Pakistan, characterized by mirror work (shisha), fine interlacing and satin stitching, and vibrant colors.
Singer Model 27 and 127
Manufactured by the Singer Manufacturing Company, the Model 27 and Model 127 are full-size domestic lockstitch sewing machines; production of these machines spanned over half a century.
Single Quiver
Single Quiver is a Basque Country surf, skate, and paddle surf retailer (singlequiver.com), founded in Leioa, with physical stores in Barakaldo and El Puerto de Santa María, selling surfboards, wetsuits, Carver and YOW surfskates, and SUP gear.
Sinicization
Sinicization (Hanhua 汉化, Zhongguohua 中国化) is the assimilation of non-Chinese peoples into Chinese language and culture, and the contested historiographical theory built on it, covering conquest dynasties, the New Qing History debate, and the CCP's post-2015 Sinicization of religion policy.
Sitracima
Sitracima (Sindicato de Trabajadores de Cimatextiles) was Guatemala's first maquila-sector union, organized in 2001 by women at the Cimatextiles factory, affiliated to FESTRAS, which signed a 2003 collective agreement with SITRACHOI before the factory closed in 2007.
Sixpence (British coin)
British sixpence (tanner): pre-decimal coin of six old pence, half a shilling, 1/40 of a pound. First struck 1551 under Edward VI, cupro-nickel after 1947, last circulated 1967, demonetised 30 June 1980; revived by the Royal Mint in 2016.
Size zero
Size zero (US size 0, UK size 4) is the smallest conventional numbered women's clothing size, introduced by Nicole Miller in the 1990s, extended to 00 and 000, and emblematic of vanity sizing and thinness debates.
Sizing
Sizing, also called warp sizing (浆纱), is the textile process of coating warp yarns with size such as starch or PVA to improve weavability, followed by desizing before dyeing.
Skansen
Skansen, the world's oldest open-air museum, founded by Artur Hazelius on Djurgården, Stockholm, opening 11 October 1891; a living museum of Swedish buildings, animals, and traditions, run by the independent Skansen Foundation.
Skechers
Skechers U.S.A., Inc. is an American footwear company founded by Robert Greenberg in Manhattan Beach, California, in 1992, first selling logger boots. Known for comfort technology lines such as Slip-ins and Arch Fit, it reached $9 billion in 2024 revenue and was taken private by 3G Capital in September 2025.
Skirt
Skirt: a waist-hung, unbifurcated garment covering some or all of the legs (Old Norse skyrta). Covers anatomy, silhouettes (A-line, pencil, pleated), history from the shendyt and kaunakes, hemline theory, and cross-cultural and gender norms.
Slavica Ecclestone
Slavica Ecclestone, née Slavica Radić (born 1958, Rijeka), Croatian-born former Armani fashion model, second wife of Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone from 1985 to 2009, mother of Tamara and Petra, and beneficiary of the Liechtenstein Bambino trust.
Slazenger
Slazenger, British sporting goods brand founded 1881 by Ralph and Albert Slazenger; Wimbledon official ball supplier since 1902, world's longest-running sports sponsorship; owned by Frasers Group since 2004; sells tennis, cricket, golf, hockey, and swimming gear.
Sleeve garter
A sleeve garter, also known as an arm garter, is an elastic band worn above the elbow to hold a shirt sleeve at a set length.
Sleeveless shirt
Sleeveless shirt, also called tank top (UK: vest, Australia: singlet), is a shirt without sleeves, made sleeveless or cut off. Styles include tank top, muscle shirt, and A-shirt; the term tank top dates to 1968.
Slick Woods
Slick Woods, born Simone Thompson (1996), American model and actor discovered by Ash Stymest in LA; face of Fenty Beauty, walked Savage x Fenty nine months pregnant in 2018, melanoma survivor.
Slip-on shoe
Slip-on shoe (スリッポン): any laceless shoe, from loafers to Vans Classic Slip-On and Chelsea boots, held on by elastic gores or last shape; defined by customs, history of the loafer, fit and foot-health guidance.
Smart casual
Smart casual: a dress code for neat, professional-looking but fairly informal clothing, between casual and business dress. American origin, first recorded 1920–25; joined by business casual in the 1950s; meaning varies by venue and employer.
Smoking jacket
Smoking jacket: a men's thigh-length velvet or brocade lounging jacket with shawl collar and frogging, worn after dinner to shield clothes from tobacco smoke; ancestor of the dinner jacket and of Yves Saint Laurent's 1966 Le Smoking.
Snow globe
Snow globe (Schneekugel; also snow dome, water globe): sealed glass or plastic sphere with liquid, snow particles, and a miniature scene that swirls when shaken. Invented by Erwin Perzy I in Vienna, patented 1900; first shown at the 1878 Paris Exposition.
Sock
Sock: a knitted or woven foot covering, a type of hosiery. Known from Ötzi's grass shoe lining, Egyptian nålebinding socks, William Lee's 1589 stocking frame, nylon in 1938, and modern moisture-managing synthetic blends.
Sofia Richie
Sofia Richie Grainge, American model, influencer, and designer, youngest child of Lionel Richie. Signed with Select Model Management in 2014; known for quiet luxury style, her 2023 Chanel-dressed Antibes wedding, Tommy Hilfiger capsules, and her 2025 SRG label with Revolve.
Solidus (coin)
The solidus (aureus solidus, nomisma) was Constantine I's gold coin of about 4.5 g, struck at 72 to the Roman pound from 312 CE and the Byzantine standard for roughly 700 years until the hyperpyron.
Sombrero
The sombrero is a broad-brimmed, usually tall-crowned hat of straw or felt associated with Spain, Mexico, and the southwestern United States; in Spanish the word means any hat.
Songket
Songket is a handwoven textile of maritime Southeast Asia in which gold or silver threads are inserted as a supplementary weft to create ornamental patterns.
Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel (Sonia Flis, 1930-2016), French designer and writer, founder of the 1968 Paris knitwear house; known as Queen of Knitwear for striped poor-boy sweaters, inside-out seams, and unfinished garments; brand liquidated 2019, revived under G-III since 2021.
Southern belle
The Southern belle is a romanticized archetype of an upper-class white young woman in the antebellum South, first appearing in literature in 1832 and later popularized by Gone with the Wind.
Souvenir
Souvenir (French "to remember"): a small keepsake bought or kept to recall a place, event, or person. From Old French suvenir c.1100; English use from 1775; central to tourism, worth billions yearly.
Sovereign (British coin)
British gold coin first struck 1489 under Henry VII, revived 1817 as 22-carat £1 coin with Pistrucci's St George reverse; withdrawn from circulation in WWI, revived 1957 as a bullion coin still struck today.