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Inés Rivero
Inés Rivero (María Inés Rivero), Argentine model born 1975 in Córdoba; Elite Look of the Year 1992 winner, Victoria's Secret Angel 1998–1999, later actress, philanthropist, and Madrid-based designer.
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel (Iris Barrel, 1921–2024), American interior designer and textile expert, co-founded Old World Weavers, did White House restoration work, and became a fashion icon after the Met's 2005 Rara Avis exhibition, distinct from the biometric iris-recognition subject of the same word.
Isfahan carpet
An Isfahan carpet is a fine hand-knotted Persian rug woven in or around Isfahan, Iran, which flourished under Safavid Shah ʿAbbās I and was revived as a major export industry by the 1920s.
Italian fashion
Italian fashion: postwar industry behind the "Made in Italy" label; first Giorgini show in Florence (1951), Milan's rise (1972-1978), CNMI governance, and one of the world's largest fashion exporters.
Itaya Hazan
Itaya Hazan (板谷波山, 1872–1963) was a Japanese ceramic artist, born Kashichi Itaya in Shimodate, Ibaraki Prefecture, a pioneer of modern ceramics who created the hōkō-saiji matte glaze technique.
Iznik tiles
Iznik tiles are underglaze-painted ceramic wall tiles produced in Iznik, western Anatolia, from the 15th to the early 18th century, used to decorate Ottoman mosques, palaces, and tombs.
Jacob Arabo
Jacob Arabo (Yakov Arabov, born 1965, Tashkent) is the Uzbekistan-born founder of Jacob & Co., known as Jacob the Jeweler, who built a hip-hop-driven jewelry empire and moved into high-complication diamond-set watches like the Five Time Zone and Astronomia.
Japanese garden (日本庭園)
Japanese garden (日本庭園, nihon teien): the general term for Japan's garden styles, from Asuka-era pond gardens through Heian shinden gardens, Muromachi karesansui, and Edo strolling and tea gardens, contrasting with geometric Western design.
Japanese street fashion
Japanese street fashion: Tokyo youth dress culture centered on Harajuku, Shibuya, and Ura-Harajuku backstreets; subcultures like Lolita and kawaii produced by teens, now anchored commercially by brands such as BAPE and Human Made.
Jay Sebring
Jay Sebring (Thomas John Kummer, 1933-1969), American men's hairstylist; pioneer of men's salon styling and founder of Sebring International; killed in the Manson Family Tate murders on Cielo Drive.
Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) was a French metalworker and designer from Nancy who pioneered prefabricated houses and industrial furniture, insisting he was a builder, not an architect.
Jean Puiforcat
Jean Puiforcat (Jean Élysée Puiforcat, 1897–1945) was a French silversmith and designer, the defining French silversmith of the Art Deco period, known for geometric sterling silver.
Jean-Michel Frank
Jean-Michel Frank (1895–1941) was a French interior decorator and furniture designer known for minimalist interiors of spare forms and unusual materials, an approach his contemporaries called "poor luxury."
Jeanne Paquin
Jeanne Paquin (1869–1936), born Jeanne Marie Charlotte Beckers, was a French couture designer who founded and led the House of Paquin in Paris from 1891, becoming the first woman to gain international celebrity in fashion.
Jed Johnson (designer)
Jed Johnson (1948-1996), American interior designer and Warhol partner, decorated Andy Warhol's East 66th Street townhouse, founded Jed Johnson Associates, designed White Birch Farm, died on TWA Flight 800.
Jennifer Meyer
Jennifer Meyer is an American fine jewelry designer who founded her eponymous Los Angeles brand in 2005; self-taught, known for 18k gold leaf motifs, Good Luck necklaces, 2012 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund runner-up, fragrance since 2022.
Jeremiah Brent
Jeremiah Brent, American interior designer and TV host, founder of Jeremiah Brent Design (LA and NYC, founded 2011), husband of Nate Berkus, star of Queer Eye, Nate & Jeremiah By Design, and Say I Do.
Jessica Mulroney
Jessica Mulroney (née Brownstein, born 1980) is a Canadian fashion stylist, bridal consultant, and brand strategist, face of Kleinfeld Canada, close friend and unofficial stylist of Meghan Markle, and Shoebox Project co-founder.
Jiading bamboo carving
Jiading bamboo carving (嘉定竹刻) is a Chinese craft tradition founded by Zhu He in Jiading, now a Shanghai district, that became one of two great bamboo carving schools.
Jingdezhen porcelain
Jingdezhen porcelain (景德镇瓷器) is the high-fired porcelain made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, China, whose kilns have run for a millennium and led world porcelain production from the 16th century.
Joanna Gaines
Joanna Gaines, née Joanna Lee Stevens (born 1978), American interior designer, author, and TV personality; co-host of HGTV's Fixer Upper and co-founder of Waco, Texas's Magnolia brand and Magnolia Network.
Josef Hoffmann
Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) was an Austrian architect and designer who co-founded the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte, designed the Brussels Stoclet Palace, and championed the Gesamtkunstwerk ideal.
Joseon blue-and-white porcelain
Joseon blue-and-white porcelain (cheonghwa baekja, 청화백자) is Korean white porcelain decorated with cobalt underglaze, produced at official kilns for the royal court from the mid-15th century.
Joseon dragon jar
The Joseon dragon jar is a Korean white porcelain jar, made from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries and painted with a dragon chasing a flaming jewel, used in royal rituals.
Joseon white porcelain
Joseon white porcelain (조선백자, baekja) is the white ceramic produced in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), which became the country's most popular ceramic type.
Joseon White Porcelain Jar with Dragon Design
A Joseon white porcelain jar with dragon design, commonly called a dragon jar, is a Korean jar of the Joseon dynasty painted with a dragon in underglaze cobalt blue or iron-brown.
Joseph Maria Olbrich
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867–1908) was an Austrian architect and designer, a leading Art Nouveau figure who designed the Vienna Secession building and most of the Mathildenhöhe artists' colony in Darmstadt, including the Wedding Tower.
Josephine Skriver
Josephine Skriver is a Danish model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2016 to 2021 and for walking more than 300 shows for major fashion houses.
Jun ware
Jun ware (钧窑) is a Chinese stoneware from the late Northern Song to early Ming dynasty, made in Yuzhou, Henan, and known for opalescent blue glazes.
June Schwarcz
June Schwarcz (1918–2015) was an American enamelist in Sausalito, California, who made over 2,500 works, building sculptural copper foil vessels hardened in an electroplating tank.