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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.
Zagat
Zagat: crowdsourced restaurant survey brand founded in 1979 by Tim and Nina Zagat, known for its 30-point food/decor/service scale, sold to Google in 2011 and to The Infatuation in 2018.
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.
Zatarain's
Zatarain's is a New Orleans-area food brand founded in 1889 by Emile Zatarain, known for rice dinner mixes, seafood boils, and seasonings; owned by McCormick since its 2003 $180 million acquisition.
Zaxby's
Zaxby's is an American fast-casual restaurant chain specializing in chicken fingers and wings. It was founded in 1990 in Statesboro, Georgia, by Zach McLeroy and Tony Townley.
Zenkō-ji faith
Zenkō-ji faith (善光寺信仰) is the Japanese Buddhist devotion centered on Zenkō-ji temple in Nagano City and its hidden Amida triad, venerated as a living Buddha that saves anyone regardless of sect.
Zeppole
Zeppole (singular zeppola) are Italian fried pastries; the zeppola di San Giuseppe is a choux ring filled with pastry cream and amarena cherry for 19 March. First recipe Cavalcanti 1837; variants in Puglia, Sicily, Rome, and Italian America.
Zermatt Neo
Zermatt Neo is a Singaporean competitive eater and YouTube creator, a former personal trainer and dietitian, ranked No. 1 by Food League Singapore in 2020, known for multi-kilogram hawker-food challenges.
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.
Zev Siegl
Zev Siegl (born 1942) is an American entrepreneur, co-founder of Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle in 1971 with Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker; its first paid employee, vice president until 1980, later startup mentor and speaker.
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.
Zhao Na (model)
Zhao Na (赵娜, Zena), Chinese model and dancer, Miss Universe China 2025; Top 12 and first Chinese Miss Universe Asia 2025 at Miss Universe 2025 in Thailand; later judge at Miss Universe Philippines 2026.
Zhong Shanshan (钟睒睒)
Zhong Shanshan (钟睒睒), born 1954, is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder of Nongfu Spring (农夫山泉) and controlling shareholder of Beijing Wantai Biological; former journalist, 'lone wolf', China's richest person 2021–2025.
Zima (drink)
Zima (Russian for winter) was Coors's clear, citrus-flavored malt beverage, launched in 1992, peaking at about 1.3 million barrels in 1994, withdrawn in the U.S. in 2008, and revived in limited runs and in Japan.
Zinfandel
Zinfandel, also called Primitivo in Italy and Tribidrag or Crljenak Kastelanski in Croatia, is a red wine grape genetically identical across all three names. It is California's third most planted winegrape, first documented by name in Boston in 1832.
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.
Zobo (drink)
Zobo (zoborodo) is the Nigerian, Hausa-named hibiscus drink made from Hibiscus sabdariffa calyces, spiced with ginger and cloves; also called bissap, sobolo, karkade, sorrel, agua de jamaica; keeps about 24 hours unrefrigerated unless preserved.
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.
Zomato
Zomato, now Eternal Limited, is India's leading food delivery platform founded in 2008 as Foodiebay by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah; IPO 2021, Blinkit acquired 2022, renamed Eternal 2025.
Zombie (cocktail)
Zombie cocktail: 1934 tiki drink by Donn Beach at Don the Beachcomber's, Hollywood; three-rum punch with Don's Mix, falernum, and Pernod; secret coded recipe lost until Jeff Beachbum Berry decoded it in 2007; two-per-customer limit.
Zongzi (粽子)
Zongzi (粽子), also written 糉, is the Chinese glutinous-rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves and eaten at the Dragon Boat Festival; northern versions are sweet, southern savory, with a 2026 Chinese market of about 11.88 billion yuan.