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Who Topped The Vanity Fair Best Dressed List This Year?


By Jeanne Sutton
06th Aug 2015
Who Topped The Vanity Fair Best Dressed List This Year?

Can we get a drumroll? A red carpet? An ambassador role at some of industry’s most prestigious fashion houses? The Vanity Fair Best Dressed List for 2015 has arrived and we’re sure some people are raging they weren’t included. Others, like Rihanna, are probably toasting their risk-taking ?naked? dresses on a beach somewhere. We’re sure Amal Clooney is working today with a very smug grin while simultaneously defending a bunch of human rights. A lot of people who didn’t vote for the Tories in the last UK general election are probably pursing their lips at David Cameron’s wife Samantha ruling the list of Best Dressed Women.

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 27: Erdem Moralioglu, winner of the New Establishment award, poses with Samantha Cameron pose in the awards room at the British Fashion Awards 2012 at The Savoy Hotel on November 27, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

When it comes to men, Bill Nighy’s suits are given the recognition they deserve and Our Very Own Michael Fassbender made the Hollywood list. Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter top the couples list, and the most upper middle class look possible list while they’re at it. FKA Twigs is rightfully declared an ?original? and the amount of royals in existence around the world with credit cards will have you wondering if various revolutions actually did happen.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 04: Robert Pattinson, FKA twigs and designer Christopher Kane attend the "China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Have a gander at the lists below.

Women

  1. Samantha Cameron
  2. Taylor Swift
  3. Misty Copeland
  4. The Countess of Wessex
  5. Amal Clooney
  6. Rihanna
  7. Charlotte Casiraghi
  8. Queen Letizia of Spain
  9. Mellody Hobson
  10. Francesca Amfitheatrof

ARLINGTON, TX - APRIL 19: Honoree Taylor Swift accepts the 50th Anniversary Milestone Award for Youngest ACM Entertainer of the Year during the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards at AT&T Stadium on April 19, 2015 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for dcp)

Men

  1. Bill Nighy, actor
  2. Stavros Niarchos III, financier
  3. Ik? Ud?, artist
  4. William Ivey Long, costume designer
  5. Jonathan Ive, designer
  6. Prince Carl Philip of Sweden (Royal)
  7. Jonathan Tisch (Hotelier)
  8. Prince Harry (Royal)
  9. Russel Wilson (Football player)
  10. Robert Couturier (Architect)

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 29: Bill Nighy attends The 2015 Tony Award Nominees Meet And Greet at the Paramount Hotel on April 29, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

Hollywood

  1. Alicia Vikander
  2. Eddie Redmayne
  3. Emma Stone
  4. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
  5. Sienna Miller
  6. Fan Bingbing
  7. Michael Fassbender
  8. Charlize Theron
  9. Emma Watson
  10. Diane Kruger

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 23: Actor Michael Fassbender leaves the "Macbeth" Premiere during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2015 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Couples

  1. Sophie Hunter & Benedict Cumberbatch
  2. Thom Browne & Andrew Bolton (Designer and curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
  3. Beatrice Borromeo & Pierre Casiraghi (Heiress reporter and royal)
  4. Jemma Kidd & Arthur Wellesley (Designer of pyjamas and vague royal with financial career)

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?Originals?

  1. Azzedine Ala?a
  2. Jenna Lyons
  3. FKA Twigs

Victoria Beckham

Professionals

  1. Caroline Issa (Fashion director, TANK magazine)
  2. Zac Posen (Designer)
  3. Maxwell Osborne & Dao-Yi Cho (Designers)
  4. Victoria Beckham
  5. Nick Wooster (Fashion consultant)
  6. Giovanna Battaglia (Fashion editor at Vogue Japan)
  7. Peter Manning (Designer)
  8. Pamela Golbin (Curator)
  9. Lauren Santo Domingo (Moda Operandi founder)
  10. Harold Koda (Curator, Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 25: Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned arrives for Lunch at El Pardo Palace on April 25, 2011 in Madrid, Spain. The Emir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and his wife Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser Al-Missned are on an official visit to Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

Hall of Fame

  1. Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned of Qatar (Essentially a royal)

What have we learned today about style, and life in general? Being a royal helps.

Read the list in its detailed entirety here.

Via Vanity Fair