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Alcoholic beverage
Alcoholic beverage: drink containing ethanol (C2H5OH), made by fermentation of grains, fruits, or sugars, or by distillation for spirits such as whiskey, rum, and vodka. Beer, wine, and spirits dominate; IARC Group 1 carcinogen; 2.6 million deaths in 2019.
Alcoholic beverage control state
Alcoholic beverage control state (control state, ABC state): a U.S. state whose government monopolizes wholesale and sometimes retail alcohol sales, chiefly spirits, under post-21st Amendment authority. 17 such states exist, versus license states that merely permit private sellers.
Alcopop
Alcopop (also ready-to-drink, RTD): a sweet pre-mixed alcoholic drink in small bottles, typically 5-7% ABV. Known for youth appeal, 1990s boom (Two Dogs, Hooch, Zima), and special taxes in Australia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Germany.
Aldi
Aldi (Albrecht-Diskont) is the shared brand of German discount grocers ALDI Nord and ALDI SÜD, split in 1961 by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht; over 90% private label, €112 billion 2023 revenue, stores across Europe, the US, and Australia.
Ale
Ale is beer fermented with top-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast at warm temperatures, giving fruity character distinct from lager. Covers etymology, medieval unhopped ale, 1980s broadened usage, major styles, and market trends.
Alebrije
Alebrije (plural alebrijes): brightly colored Mexican folk-art sculptures of fantastical hybrid creatures, invented in papier-mâché by Mexico City cartonero Pedro Linares after a 1930s fever dream, and later applied to Oaxacan copal-wood carvings from Arrazola and San Martín Tilcajete.
Alek Wek
Alek Wek (born 1977, Wau, Sudan) is a South Sudanese-British supermodel, designer, and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador who fled civil war at 14, was scouted in London in 1995, and became the first African Elle cover model and first Black Chanel couture bride.
Alençon lace
Alençon lace (point d'Alençon), hand-made French needle lace from Alençon, Normandy, developed around 1650 by Marthe La Perrière; about seven hours per square centimeter, ten production stages, UNESCO-listed since 2010, distinct from machine-made Lyons and Levers Alençon.
Aleppo soap
Aleppo soap (صابون الغار الحلبي), also called ghar soap, is a hard Syrian soap of olive oil and laurel berry oil, boiled in winter, family-stamped, dried 6–9 months, UNESCO-inscribed in 2024.
Alessandro Michele
Alessandro Michele (born 1972), Italian designer from Rome; Gucci creative director 2015-2022, whose maximalist, gender-fluid aesthetic roughly tripled revenues, then Valentino creative director from April 2, 2024, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Alex Anderson (quilter)
Alex Anderson (quilter), American quiltmaker and author, host of HGTV's Simply Quilts, co-founder of The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims; distinct from the animator Alex Anderson and other namesakes.
Alex Consani
Alex Consani (born 2003) is an American transgender fashion model and TikTok personality, Model of the Year winner at the 2024 UK Fashion Awards, the first trans woman to win that honor, and an IMG Models signee known for Tom Ford, Versace, and Victoria's Secret runway work.
Alex Curran
Alex Curran (born 1982, Aintree), also Alex Gerrard, English model, Daily Mirror fashion columnist, wife of footballer Steven Gerrard; a name shared by an Essex equestrian creator, a Brooklyn production head, and Aptitude Software's CEO.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Alex Guarnaschelli (Alexandra Guarnaschelli), American chef and Food Network personality, executive chef of NYC's Butter since 2003, winner of The Next Iron Chef: Redemption, judge on Chopped, host of Supermarket Stakeout and Alex vs America.
Alexa Chung
Alexa Chung (born 1983) is a British model, TV presenter, writer, and designer, scouted at 16 at Reading Festival, host of MTV's It's On and Netflix's Next in Fashion, namesake of Mulberry's Alexa bag, and founder of the Alexachung label (2017–2022).
Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen (Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969–2010), British fashion designer and founder of the 1992 London label, Savile Row-trained, Givenchy head designer from 1996, creator of the bumster trouser and Highland Rape, subject of Savage Beauty.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty was a retrospective exhibition of the designer's 1992-2010 work at the Met (2011, record 661,509 visitors) and the V&A (2015, over 480,000 tickets, its most popular show ever).
Alexander Wang (designer)
Alexander Wang (王大仁), born 1983 in San Francisco, is an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous label in 2005, defined the model-off-duty look, led Balenciaga 2012–2015, collaborated with H&M in 2014, faced 2020 sexual assault allegations, and returned to NYFW in 2025.
Alexandre Mattiussi
Alexandre Mattiussi (born 1980) is the French designer, Duperré-trained, ex-Dior, Marc Jacobs, and Givenchy, who founded the AMI Paris ready-to-wear label in 2010, won ANDAM 2013, and grew it into an international house now owned by Sequoia Capital China.
Alexie Brooks
Alexie Mae Caimoso Brooks (born 2001), Filipino-American athlete and beauty queen from Leon, Iloilo; Miss Eco International 2025, first black winner of that pageant, UAAP MVP heptathlete, and Reina Filipinas MGI All Stars Philippines 2026.
Alexis Ren
Alexis Ren (Alexis René Glabach, born 1996, Santa Monica) is an American model and actress who went viral on Tumblr and Instagram, was SI Swimsuit 2018 Rookie of the Year, placed fourth on Dancing with the Stars, and founded We Are Warriors and Sereia.
Alfajor
Alfajor (from Arabic al-hasu, "filling"): a confection of thin baked dough pieces joined by dulce de leche or, in Andalusia, a honey-almond-spice paste. South American staple, especially Argentina, with regional varieties and Medina Sidonia PGI in Spain.
Alice B. Toklas
Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967), American-born Paris writer and cook, lifelong partner of Gertrude Stein; author of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954), famous for its Haschich Fudge recipe and culinary-autobiography form.
Alice Brock
Alice Brock, also known as Alice May Pelkey, was a restaurateur who operated several businesses in Massachusetts. Her Stockbridge restaurant inspired Arlo Guthrie's 1967 song, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree."
Alice Kettle
Alice Kettle, British textile artist and Emeritus Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, known for monumental figurative machine embroidery and the Thread Bearing Witness migration project.
Alimentation Couche-Tard
Alimentation Couche-Tard, also called ACT, is a Canadian convenience store and fuel retailer founded in 1980 in Laval, Quebec, by Alain Bouchard; it owns Circle K, operates about 17,200 stores in 27 countries, and withdrew a $46 billion bid for 7-Eleven owner Seven & i in 2025.
Alina Akselrad
Alina Luz Akselrad (born 1998, Cordoba) is an Argentine model, broadcaster, and beauty queen; Miss Universe Argentina 2020 (Top 21) and Miss World Argentina 2025, Top 20 at Miss World 2026 in Vietnam.
Alinea (restaurant)
Alinea is a fine-dining restaurant in Chicago's Lincoln Park, opened in May 2005 by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas and known for theatrical, science-driven modernist cuisine.
Allison Harvard
Allison Harvard (Allison Elizabeth Harvard, later Burke), aka Creepy Chan, American model, artist, and photographer; runner-up on America's Next Top Model Cycle 12 (2009, lost to Teyona Anderson) and Cycle 17 All-Stars (2011, lost to Lisa D'Amato after Angelea Preston's disqualification).
AllSaints
AllSaints is a British contemporary fashion brand founded in 1994 in East London by Kait Bolongaro and Stuart Trevor, known for leather jackets and the Ramskull logo, now owned via Klotho Brands and led creatively by Aaron Esh.