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Yvonne LaFleur
Yvonne LaFleur, New Orleans fashion designer and retailer, opened You Boutique on Hampson Street in 1969 selling $8 custom-altered jeans; renamed after her 1984 signature fragrance, known for custom millinery, bridal wear, and free alterations.
Zac Posen
Zac Posen (Zachary E. Posen, born 1980) is an American fashion designer known for glamorous red-carpet gowns, his House of Z label, Brooks Brothers womenswear, and since 2024 as Gap Inc.'s EVP Creative Director and Old Navy Chief Creative Officer.
Zahia Dehar
Zahia Dehar (born 1992, Ghriss, Algeria) is a French-Algerian model, lingerie designer, and actress known for the 2010 Zahia affair with footballers Ribéry and Benzema, her 2012 Paris Fashion Week lingerie debut, and her lead role as Sofia in Rebecca Zlotowski's 2019 film Une fille facile.
Zaira Nara
Zaira Nara (Zaira Tatiana Nara), born 1988 in Boulogne, Buenos Aires, is an Argentine model, TV host, and entrepreneur, younger sister of Wanda Nara; she hosts on DGO Stream and runs her own makeup and yerba brands.
Zalando
Zalando SE, Berlin-based European fashion and lifestyle e-commerce platform founded 2008 by Robert Gentz and David Schneider; 62 million active customers, 29 markets, 2025 revenue 12.3 billion euros, ABOUT YOU acquired July 2025.
Zaldy
Zaldy (Zaldy Goco) is an American Filipino-origin fashion and costume designer, three-time Emmy winner for RuPaul's Drag Race, head designer of the ZALDY label (2002), tour designer for Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and others, and creator of the 2024 Victoria's Secret show.
Zandra Rhodes
Dame Zandra Rhodes (born 1940, Chatham, Kent), British fashion and textile designer, 'Princess of Punk', founder of London's Fashion and Textile Museum, known for hand-screen-printed fabrics and clients from Princess Diana to Freddie Mercury.
Zappos
Zappos (Zappos.com), founded 1999 by Nick Swinmurn, is a Las Vegas-based online shoe and clothing retailer owned by Amazon since 2009, known for 365-day free two-way returns, a large customer loyalty team, and its holacracy self-management experiment.
Zara (retailer)
Zara is a Spanish fast-fashion clothing retailer headquartered in Arteixo and the flagship brand of Inditex. It opened its first store in 1975 and sells in about 97 countries.
Zardozi
Zardozi (زردوزی) is an Indian metal-embroidery craft that stitches gold or silver threads, beads, and stones onto fabric for raised ornamentation, flourishing under Mughal patronage.
Zettai ryōiki (絶対領域)
Zettai ryōiki (絶対領域, absolute territory) is Japanese otaku slang for the bare-thigh gap between a short skirt and over-knee socks; coined in a 2001 blog post about the mascot Mayura, standardized by a 4:1:2.5 golden ratio, and later used in maid cafes, photo books, sticker advertising, and a 2014 Akihabara knee-sock shop.
Zhang Cheng
Zhang Cheng (张成) was a late Yuan dynasty Chinese lacquer craftsman in Xitang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, one of the two most celebrated carved-lacquer masters of his era.
Zhang Tonglu
Zhang Tonglu (张同禄, 1942–2022) was a Chinese cloisonné master known as "Falang Zhang" who mastered every stage of the craft and was named a China Arts and Crafts Master in 1988.
Zipper
Zipper (slide fastener): clothing closure of two interlocking tooth rows joined by a slider. Evolved from Elias Howe's 1851 closure and Judson's 1893 clasp-locker to Sundback's 1917 Separable Fastener; named by B.F. Goodrich in 1923.
Zoë Buckman
Zoë Buckman (born 1985, Hackney, London) is a British Jewish multidisciplinary artist in New York known for boxing-glove sculptures in vintage fabrics, feminist textile works, and the video poem Show Me Your Bruises, Then.
Zoë Kestan
Zoë Kestan (born 1993) is an American designer and founder of the New York label WeedSlut, known for Addison Rae tour costumes and as Hunter Biden's ex-girlfriend and 2024 trial witness.
Zoot suit
A zoot suit is a man's suit of the late 1930s and 1940s with wide, pegged trousers and a long coat with padded shoulders, worn mainly by young minority men.
Zucchetto
Zucchetto (pileolus): the small round skullcap of Catholic clergy, white for the pope, red for cardinals, violet for bishops, black for others, worn under the biretta and mitre.
Zulu beadwork
Zulu beadwork (ubuhlalu) is the beadwork tradition of the Zulu people of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in which women use colored beads to convey messages of courtship, marriage, and identity.