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Vanessa Trump
Vanessa Trump (born 1977), also known as Vanessa Haydon, is an American former Wilhelmina model, ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. (married 2005, divorced 2018, five children), partner of Tiger Woods since 2025, and breast cancer patient who disclosed her diagnosis in May 2026.
Verner Panton
Verner Panton (1926–1998) was a Danish architect and designer, best known for the Panton Chair, the first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of injection-molded plastic.
Victor Horta
Victor Horta was a Belgian architect and designer, one of the founders of Art Nouveau architecture; his Brussels town houses, above all the Hôtel Tassel of 1893, introduced an open plan and iron-and-glass construction.
Victor Hugo (artist and window dresser)
Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo Rojas), 1942-1993, Venezuelan-born performance artist, erotic artist, Warhol Factory assistant, and window dresser for his partner Halston; distinct from the French writer of the same name.
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2026
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2026: the revived VS runway event's fourth edition, held October 18, 2026 at Sony Studios, Culver City, Los Angeles, streamed on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, with performers Katseye, Megan Thee Stallion, Tate McRae, and Megan Moroney and a $50 million Fantasy Bra.
Viktor Schreckengost
Viktor Schreckengost (1906–2008) was an American industrial designer and ceramist based in Cleveland, Ohio, known for the Art Deco Jazz Bowl and for mass-produced bicycles and dinnerware.
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe
Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe (1927–2004), known professionally as Torun, was a Swedish silversmith and jewelry designer, one of the first female silversmiths to gain international acclaim.
Vodou flag
A Vodou flag (Haitian Creole drapo) is a ceremonial banner made in Haiti for the religion of Vodou, decorated with sequins, beads, or appliqué and dedicated to a spirit.
Voss (collection)
Voss (VOSS) is Alexander McQueen's spring/summer 2001 women's collection, shown in London on 26 September 2000 inside a mirrored glass padded-cell set, with shell garments and a Witkin-inspired finale.
Votive Crown of Recceswinth
The Votive Crown of Recceswinth is a seventh-century gold votive crown offered by the Visigothic king Recceswinth (649-672), the principal piece of the Treasure of Guarrazar.
Wade Cup
The Wade Cup is a cast brass bowl inlaid with silver, made in Iran in the early 1200s and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, famed for human- and animal-shaped Arabic script.
Wang Shixiang
Wang Shixiang (王世襄, courtesy name Chang'an, 1914–2009) was a Chinese connoisseur, collector, and expert on cultural relics whose systematic studies of Ming-style furniture and lacquerware founded new fields of scholarship.
Wendy Moore (television personality)
Wendy Moore is an Australian magazine editor and TV personality, editor of Home Beautiful, judge on House Rules (2013-2019), co-host of Foxtel's Selling Houses Australia, and former Foxtel executive. Distinct from the English historian Wendy Moore.
Wendy Ramshaw
Wendy Ramshaw (1939–2018) was a British artist and designer from Sunderland who transformed jewelry through sculptural stacking ring sets and large-scale metalwork; her work sits in over 70 museum collections.
Wiener Werkstätte
The Wiener Werkstätte ("Vienna Workshop") was a Viennese artists' cooperative, founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, that made fine furniture, jewelry, and fashion until 1932.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900–1990) was a German industrial designer and silversmith who trained at the Bauhaus in Weimar and became known for its 1924 table lamp and mass-produced glassware.
William De Morgan
William De Morgan was an English ceramicist and tile designer of the Arts and Crafts movement, and a close colleague of William Morris, who later became a successful novelist.
William Kent
William Kent (1685–1748) was an English architect and designer who shaped the early Georgian era by reviving Palladianism and applying a distinctive natural style to his architecture and landscape designs.
William Morris
William Morris (1834–1896), English designer, writer, and socialist, led the Arts and Crafts movement, founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861, relaunched as Morris & Co. 1875) and the Kelmscott Press (1891), famed for 'useful or beautiful' design ideals.
Wine Cup of Jahangir
A wine cup of Jahangir is a drinking vessel made for the Mughal emperor, mostly carved from nephrite jade and inscribed with his titles, dates, and verses.
Winter Egg
The Winter Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg made in 1913, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother, Maria Feodorovna.
Wucai
Wucai (五彩, "five colors") is a Chinese porcelain decoration in which bright enamels are painted over the glaze and refired, flourishing in the Ming and Kangxi periods.
Yang Pengnian
Yang Pengnian (杨彭年) was a Chinese Yixing zisha potter of the Qing dynasty, best known for making the Mansheng pots designed by the scholar Chen Hongshou.
Yangcai
Yangcai (洋彩, "foreign colors") is Chinese porcelain painted in opaque overglaze enamels of European origin, the famille rose palette, with body and decoration both made at the Jingdezhen imperial kilns.
Yaozhou ware
Yaozhou ware (耀州窑) is a Chinese celadon produced from the Tang dynasty at kilns in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, reaching its peak in the Northern Song (960–1127).
Yasmeen Ghauri
Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel of the 1990s (Pakistani-German, born 1971 in Montreal), discovered at a McDonald's, famed for her runway walk, first South Asian Vogue-cover and Victoria's Secret model per Vogue, retired 1997.
Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl
The Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl (曜変天目茶碗) is a black-glazed Jian kiln tea bowl from 12th to 13th century China, marked by blue-lustered spots; three survive, all in Japan.
Yuan blue and white
Yuan blue and white (元代青花瓷) is underglaze cobalt-decorated porcelain produced chiefly at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), when Chinese blue-and-white reached technical maturity.
Zellige
Zellige (زليج), also spelled zellij or zillij, is the hand-cut glazed ceramic tile mosaic of Morocco and al-Andalus, cut with a hammer into precise geometric star patterns.
Zhu Kexin
Zhu Kexin (朱可心, born Zhu Kaichang, 1904 to 1986) was a Chinese Yixing zisha pottery master best known for naturalistic flower-vessel teapots called "Kexin flower ware".