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The fashion industry has become a multibillion-dollar global enterprise devoted to the business of making and selling clothes; it thrives by being diverse and flexible enough to gratify any consumer's desire to embrace or reject fashionability, however that term might be defined.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ralph-Lauren">Ralph Lauren</a> <div class="font-serif">American fashion designer</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giorgio-Armani">Giorgio Armani</a> <div class="font-serif">Italian fashion designer</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vivienne-Westwood">Vivienne Westwood</a> <div class="font-serif">British fashion designer</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Graphic-Art"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/77/97277-050-16F3259D/William-Blake-oil-canvas-Thomas-Phillips-National-1807.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="William Blake" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Graphic-Art" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Graphic Art</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">Calligraphy, graffiti, engraving, caricature: graphic art's domain stretches as far as the eye can see. Take a look at some of the other types of graphic art, and learn more about the artists working within this category of fine arts.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Blake">William Blake</a> <div class="font-serif">British writer and artist</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/photoengraving">photoengraving</a> <div class="font-serif">printing</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/printmaking">printmaking</a> <div class="font-serif"></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Installation-Art"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/73/172773-050-ACCFFA2A/James-Turrell-American.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="James Turrell" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Installation-Art" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Installation & Performance Art</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">audience" could consist of onlookers on the street or patrons browsing the halls of a museum, among countless other possibilities.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tracey-Emin">Tracey Emin</a> <div class="font-serif">British artist</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zhang-Huan">Zhang Huan</a> <div class="font-serif">Chinese artist</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Alys">Francis Al每s</a> <div class="font-serif">Belgian-born conceptual artist</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Painting"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/92/215592-050-8DEB0E28/Large-Plane-Trees-Road-Menders-at-Saint-Remy-Vincent-Van-Gough-1889-Cleveland-Art-Museum.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="Vincent van Gogh: The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-R茅my)" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Painting" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Painting</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">Need help distinguishing your Picassos from your Monets? 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Learn about the masters of the craft and explore the development of photographic technology as it progressed through daguerreotypes and tintypes on the way to modern day鈥檚 increasingly sophisticated digital cameras.</div> <div class="label mt-20">Articles</div> <ul class="list-unstyled"> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hill-and-Adamson">Hill and Adamson</a> <div class="font-serif">Scottish photographers</div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography">history of photography</a> <div class="font-serif"></div> </li> <li class="mt-20"> <a class="font-weight-bold" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andreas-Gursky">Andreas Gursky</a> <div class="font-serif">German photographer</div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <a href="/browse/Sculpture"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/17/256217-050-6B6BE67F/romanian-modern-sculptor-constantin-brancusi.jpg?w=400&h=225&c=crop" alt="Constantin Brancusi" class="col-100 mb-20" /> </a> <a href="/browse/Sculpture" class="font-weight-bold font-16">Sculpture</a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 line-clamp clamp-3">Looking to find a use for that extra clay, stone, plaster, or metal that you have lying around? 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