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Also Known As clothing • clothes • garment • attire • apparel • costume

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Portrait of King Henry VIII of England wearing ornate 16th-century royal attire with a fur-lined cloak, gold jewelry, and a feathered hat, standing against a dark background.
Egyptian statuette with angular harp
ancient Egyptian dress
Egyptian dress of the New Kingdom
alabaster head of a man wearing a turban
Limestone relief of Ur-Nanshe, king of Lagash, shown in profile wearing a textured fur skirt, with cuneiform inscriptions surrounding the figure.
Ashurnasirpal II
Minoan fresco: priest-king
youth wearing a Phrygian cap
Artemis
A black-and-white photo of a white man from the late 19th century wearing an extremely long mustache. Cut-out hands hold a blue razor to the right side of the image.
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Group of young white women in 1950s-style dresses.
Coco Chanel: From quiet luxury to Nazi affiliation
Hishikawa Moronobu's painting "Beauty Looking Back," featuring a woman in a red robe.
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Levi Strauss
American entrepreneur
Kanye West, 2006
Kanye West
American producer, rapper, and designer
Gabrielle (“Coco”) Chanel
Coco Chanel
French designer
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Sean Combs poses on the red carpet in a white suit at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, with event signage in the background.
Sean Combs
American rapper and record producer
Ralph Lauren at his brand's 2024 fall and holiday women's collection show in New York City
Ralph Lauren
American fashion designer
Calvin Klein, 2016
Calvin Klein
American fashion designer
Portrait of Daymond John during a television studio appearance, wearing a blazer and looking off-camera.
Daymond John
American entrepreneur and investor
Marc Jacobs, 2017
Marc Jacobs
American fashion designer
Speaking truth to power
Jimmy Lai
Chinese-born British businessman
Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada
Italian fashion designer
Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta
Dominican-born American fashion designer
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier
French fashion designer
Diane Von Furstenberg smiling as she walks the runway in a patterned dress with red and orange leaf designs at her fashion show during New York Fashion Week.
Diane von Furstenberg
Belgian-born designer and businesswoman
Hussein Chalayan
Hussein Chalayan
Cypriot-British fashion designer
Zac Posen
Zac Posen
American fashion designer
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
Italian fashion designer
Mizrahi, Isaac
Isaac Mizrahi
American fashion designer
Christian Dior
Christian Dior
French designer
Tom Ford wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie and white flower boutonniere, smiling at the Academy Awards with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Tom Ford
American fashion designer and film director

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