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Fanta
Fanta is a fruit-flavored carbonated soft drink brand of The Coca-Cola Company, created in 1940 in wartime Germany under Max Keith and relaunched as an orange soda in Naples in 1955, now sold in over 100 flavors across 180 countries.
Fantasy coffin
A fantasy coffin, known in Ga as Abebuu adekai, is a coffin shaped to represent the deceased's life, such as a fish for a fisherman, made in Ghana.
Farfetch
Farfetch is a global luxury fashion marketplace founded by José Neves in London around 2007, linking buyers in 190+ countries with 1,400+ brands and boutiques; NYSE-listed in 2018, it nearly failed in 2023 and was bought by Coupang in January 2024.
Farm assurance
Farm assurance: voluntary certification schemes, mainly in the UK, where independent auditors check farms against standards for food safety, traceability, and animal welfare; developed after the BSE crisis, dominated by Red Tractor, reformed after the 2025 Farm Assurance Review.
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, an American 1890s-themed ice cream and sandwich chain founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1963 by Bob Farrell and Ken McCarthy; reached about 130 locations under Marriott, collapsed in the 1980s, revived in 2009, and closed its last Brea, California shop in 2019.
Farthing (British coin)
The farthing was the smallest pre-decimal British coin, worth a quarter of a penny (960 to the pound); silver from the 13th century, copper from 1672, bronze from 1860, demonetised 1 January 1961.
Farthingale
Farthingale: hooped or padded underskirt support of the 16th–17th centuries, from Spanish verdugado (verdugo, green rod). Originated at the Castilian court; Spanish, French, and wheel styles; obsolete in England by 1625.
Fascinator
Fascinator: decorative women's headpiece on a comb, clip, or headband, no brim or crown; originally an 18th-19th-century lace or knitted scarf, renamed by Mr. John in the 1960s; banned from Royal Ascot's Royal Enclosure.
Fashion
Fashion: the socially driven, changing practice of dress communicating identity and status, and the trillions-dollar industry behind it. Covers haute couture origins, 2026 low single-digit growth, tariffs, AI adoption, and sustainability burdens.
Fashion accessory
Fashion accessories are items worn or carried to complete an outfit, from bags and hats to jewelry and belts. Covers their history, social meaning, market growth, sustainability footprint, and EU rules.
Fashion and clothing in the Philippines
Fashion and clothing in the Philippines: baro't saya, terno, Maria Clara dress, and barong Tagalog national attire; piña and handwoven textiles; Spanish and American colonial influences; contemporary designers and MNL Fashion Week.
Fashion and Textile Museum
Fashion and Textile Museum, London museum at 83 Bermondsey Street founded by Zandra Rhodes in 2003, housed in a Ricardo Legorreta building, run by Newham College since 2007, showing temporary contemporary fashion and textile exhibitions.
Fashion in India
Fashion in India spans ancient textile traditions, a large garment industry, and a designer sector gaining global recognition, with handmade fabrics dating back 6,000 years.
Fashion in the United States
Fashion in the United States: design, manufacture, and consumption of American clothing, rooted in ready-to-wear and sportswear rather than Parisian couture. Key facts: NYC Garment District heyday of 300,000 jobs, 939,000 apparel workers in 1990, NAFTA-driven decline, Los Angeles as largest remaining production hub.
Fashion Museum, Bath
The Fashion Museum, Bath, founded in 1963 as the Museum of Costume, holds around 100,000 objects spanning the late sixteenth century to today, reopening in 2030.
Fashion Nova
Fashion Nova is an American fast fashion retailer founded in 2006 by Richard Saghian in Los Angeles, grown via Instagram and TikTok influencer marketing into a billion-dollar brand known for rapid trend drops, Cardi B collaborations, and a 2022 FTC review-suppression settlement.
Fashion show
Fashion show: an event where designers present new clothing on live models to buyers, press, and clients. Traced to Charles Frederick Worth; fixed twice-yearly dates by 1918; now runway, presentation, and digital formats within fashion weeks.
Fashion week
Fashion week: twice-yearly series of runway shows and presentations in New York, London, Milan, and Paris (the Big Four), begun with Eleanor Lambert's 1943 Press Week, where designers show upcoming collections to buyers and press months before retail delivery.
Fast casual restaurant
Fast casual restaurant: a dining segment combining quick-service counter ordering and speed with higher-quality ingredients, customization, and upscale ambiance, positioned between QSRs and full-service restaurants; known for Chipotle, Panera, and Shake Shack and strong 2010s growth.
Fast fashion
Fast fashion is a business model in apparel retailing that rapidly turns the latest trends into affordable clothing, underpinning Inditex's Zara, H&M, and ultra-fast retailer Shein.
Fast food
Fast food, also called quick-service restaurant fare, is standardized food served rapidly by chains with limited menus and off-site suppliers. Key facts: White Castle 1921; McDonald's 1948 redesign; $1.3 trillion global industry; higher fats, salt, and refined carbs.
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is Eric Schlosser's 2001 investigative book on the US fast-food industry's effects on wages, health, and culture, adapted into Richard Linklater's 2006 film.
Fast Retailing (ファーストリテイリング)
Fast Retailing (ファーストリテイリング) is the Japanese apparel retail holding company behind UNIQLO, GU, and Theory, run on a SPA model by Tadashi Yanai. FY2026 revenue was ¥3.9633 trillion, and it may end 2026 as the world's second-largest apparel group.
Fast-food restaurant
Fast-food restaurant, also called quick-service restaurant (QSR) or limited-service restaurant: counter-order, pay-before-eating dining with minimal table service. Defined by the 1948 Speedee Service System, drive-thru service, low checks, and NAICS 722211 classification.
Fast-moving consumer goods
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) are low-cost, frequently repurchased products such as packaged food, beverages, personal care, and household essentials; the fastest-turnover subset of CPG, sold in high volume at thin margins.
Fat content of milk
The fat content of milk is the percentage of butterfat it contains, about 3 to 4 percent in cow milk, and a key measure of dairy quality and pricing.
Fat Thursday
Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek) is the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, opening the final week of Carnival before Lent. Best known in Poland for eating pączki, about 100 million doughnuts sold that day; distinct from Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Fatburger
Fatburger: American fast casual hamburger chain founded in Los Angeles in 1947 by Lovie Yancey as Mr. Fatburger; made-to-order burgers in sizes up to 1.5 lb, now a FAT Brands franchise.
Father's Day
Father's Day honors fathers; in the US it falls on the third Sunday in June, founded by Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane in 1910 and made permanent by Nixon in 1972. Other countries use March 19, November, or September dates.
Fatima Ali (فاطمہ علی)
Fatima Ali (فاطمہ علی), Pakistani-American executive chef (1989–2019) from Lahore; first Pakistani woman to win Chopped, Top Chef season 15 Fan Favorite; died of Ewing's sarcoma; memoir Savor, Chef Fatima Foundation. Not the Fatima Aliyu fundraiser, Fatima Jinnah, or unrelated foundations.