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Jewish cuisine
Jewish cuisine, also called Jewish cooking, is the family of regional cuisines of Jewish communities worldwide, including Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi styles, all shaped by kosher law.
Jewish hat
The Jewish hat (Judenhut, pileus cornutus) was the pointed cone headdress of medieval European Jewish men, at first worn voluntarily as a Jewish symbol, then legally imposed in German-speaking lands from about 1250 to 1750 after the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, before declining by 1500 in favor of the yellow badge.
Jewish religious clothing
Jewish religious clothing: tzitzit and tallit, kippah, tzniut modest dress, and married women's hair covering, plus Shabbat and holiday garments, shatnez law, and Hasidic dress adapted from Eastern European fashion.
Jhane Barnes
Jhane Barnes, born Jane Barnes in Phoenix, Maryland, is an American menswear and textile designer who founded her company in 1976, won the 1980 COTY award, pioneered computer- and mathematics-driven woven fabrics, and ended menswear in 2013 to focus on contract interiors.
Jheri curl
The Jheri curl, also spelled Jerry curl, is a chemically treated hairstyle of soft, glossy curls, invented by Jheri Redding and popularized by Michael Jackson in the 1980s.
Jian ware
Jian ware (jianzhan; Japanese tenmoku) is a black-glazed stoneware tea bowl made at the Jian kilns in Shuiji, Jianyang, Fujian, China, and prized above all other tea bowls in Song-dynasty China (960–1279).
Jiang Rong
Jiang Rong, art name Linfeng (林凤), was a Chinese Yixing zisha potter known for naturalistic flower ware teapots and as the first woman China Arts and Crafts Master.
Jiaozi (饺子)
Jiaozi (饺子, 餃子) are Chinese dumplings of thin unleavened wheat wrappers around meat or vegetable filling, boiled, steamed, or pan-fried (guotie). Known by Han times as huntun, central to Lunar New Year, source of Japanese gyoza.
Jilbāb (جلباب)
Jilbāb (جلباب, plural jalābīb): loose outer garment named in Quran 33:59; classical jurists define it as wider than the khimar; regional forms include the Egyptian galabiya, Moroccan jellaba, and Indonesian headscarf.
Jill Goodacre
Jill Goodacre (Jill Goodacre Connick), American model and actress born 1965 in Lubbock, Texas; leading Victoria's Secret catalogue model of the 1980s-early 1990s, appeared in Friends, married Harry Connick Jr. in 1994, breast cancer survivor and screening advocate.
Jill Vedder
Jill Vedder, born Jill Kristin McCormick in 1977, is an American philanthropist, activist, and former fashion model who co-founded and chairs the EB Research Partnership and is married to Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
Jim Thompson (designer)
Jim Thompson (James H.W. Thompson, 1906–1967), American architect and former OSS officer who founded the Thai Silk Company, revived Thai silk weaving, built the Jim Thompson House museum, and vanished in Malaysia in 1967.
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville is a hospitality and lifestyle brand named for Buffett's 1977 song, spanning Key West-rooted restaurants, hotels and resorts since 2010, Margaritaville at Sea cruises, and licensed food, spirits and merchandise.
Jimmy Choo
Jimmy Choo (周仰杰), born 1948 in Penang, Malaysia, is the cobbler-trained designer of handmade women's shoes favored by Princess Diana, co-founder of the 1996 luxury brand sold in 2001, now part of Capri Holdings.
Jimmy John Liautaud
Jimmy John Liautaud (born 1964) is the American founder of Jimmy John's sandwich chain, started in 1983 in Charleston, Illinois with a $25,000 father loan; sold stakes to Roark Capital and Inspire Brands by 2019; Forbes net worth $2.6 billion.
Jimmy John's
Jimmy John's: American sandwich chain founded 1983 by Jimmy John Liautaud in Charleston, Illinois; over 2,600 U.S. locations, franchised, owned by Inspire Brands since 2019.
Jirai-kei and ryōsan-gata fashion
Jirai-kei (地雷系, landmine style) and ryōsan-gata (量産型, mass-produced type) are related Japanese youth fashions: jirai-kei mixes black-pink girly clothes with sick-cute crying makeup, born in Kabukichō; ryōsan-gata is trend-conforming sweet girly dress for oshi-katsu, now spreading to China and Western e-commerce.
Jjamppong (짬뽕)
Jjamppong (짬뽕, also jjambbong) is a spicy seafood noodle soup of Korean-Chinese cuisine, borrowed from Japanese champon and adapted from Chinese chaomamian, made with pork, seafood, vegetables, chili oil, and chicken or pork bone broth.
JNCO
JNCO is a Los Angeles streetwear label founded in 1985 by the Revah brothers, best known for ultra-wide-leg jeans and graffiti-derived graphics that made it a popular youth brand of the 1990s.
Jo Wood
Jo Wood, born Josephine Karslake in 1955 in Basildon, Essex, is an English former model, photographer, and author, and founder of the organic skincare brand Jo Wood Organics.
Jo-Ann Stores
Jo-Ann Stores, later JOANN, was an American fabric and crafts retailer founded in 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Fabric Shop. It closed all about 800 stores in 2025 after two bankruptcies; Michaels bought its IP and brands.
Joan Kroc
Joan Kroc (1928-2003), widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, was an American philanthropist whose bequests included $1.5 billion to the Salvation Army for Kroc Centers and $225 million to NPR.
Joan Schulze
Joan Schulze, American fiber artist, lecturer, and poet based in San Jose, California; pioneer of the art quilt movement known for photo-transfer collage quilts, the Renwick's The Crossing (1990), and the 2010 Poetic License retrospective.
Joan Smalls
Joan Smalls (Joan Smalls Rodriguez), born 1988 in Hatillo, Puerto Rico, is a supermodel and actress, first Latina face of Estée Lauder, former Models.com No. 1, Forbes top-earner, and John Wick: Chapter 2 cameo actress.
Joanna Krupa
Joanna Krupa (Joanna Krupa; born 1979, Warsaw) is a Polish-American model, actor, and reality-TV personality, star of The Real Housewives of Miami, fourth on Dancing with the Stars 2009, and since 2010 host and head judge of Poland's Top Model, known for PETA animal-rights campaigns.
Jock Zonfrillo
Jock Zonfrillo, legally Barry Zonfrillo, was a Scottish-born chef in Australia who founded Adelaide restaurant Orana and judged MasterChef Australia from 2020 until his death in 2023.
Jockey International
Jockey International, also known as Coopers Inc., is an American maker of underwear, socks, and clothing headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, founded in 1876 as a hosiery business.
Jockstraps in gay male culture
Jockstraps in gay male culture: the 1874 athletic supporter (invented by C.F. Bennett, Bike Athletic) adopted by gay men from the 1950s via physique magazines, Tom of Finland, and nightlife, now a mainstream menswear item.
Jodhpurs
Jodhpurs (jods): full-length riding trousers, full over the hips and tight from knee to ankle, invented in Jodhpur, India, around 1890 by Sir Pratap Singh from the churidar and popularized in London at the 1897 Diamond Jubilee.
Jodie Kidd
Jodie Kidd, English model and broadcaster, discovered in Barbados at 15, opened shows for McQueen and Galliano, raced Maserati four years, set a Top Gear lap record, played polo for England, and later ran a gastropub.