Vanity Fair celebrates 75 years of the best-dressed
In 1940, Eleanor Lambert, the press director of the Whitney Museum of American Art founded the International Best-Dressed list. A fashion icon in her own right, the Indiana-native also helped found the Museum of Modern Art, the Coty Fashion Critics’ Award and New York Fashion Week. She would later organize the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), remaining an honorary member until her death in 2003.
Today, Vanity Fair is in charge of the list and recently announced this year’s list of inductees, which included Taylor Swift, Prince Harry, FKA Twigs and Fan Bingbing.
Above we look at some of the Best Dressed List hall of fame, those who regularly appeared on the list and are considered some of the most stylish people of all time.
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Eleanor Lambert in red, founder of the International Best-Dressed list.
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Adele Astaire, American singer, dancer and sister of Fred Astaire.
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David Beckham.
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Actor and dancer, Gregory Hines.
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American screen star Lauren Bacall.
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Stacey Bendet, CEO & Creative Director of Alice + Olivia.
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Fashion designer Tom Ford.
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
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Iman.
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Tom Wolfe, writer.
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French fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel.
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Filmmaker Sofia Coppola.
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Audrey Hepburn, actress, UNICEF goodwill ambassador.
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British fashion and portrait photographer Norman Parkinson.
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Kate Moss.
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Paloma Picasso, jewelry designer, art patron, daughter of Pablo Picasso.
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Karl Lagerfeld, designer, photographer and publisher.
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Queen Sirikit of Thailand.
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Galen Weston and Hillary Weston.
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Issey Miyake, fashion designer.
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Margot Fonteyn, ballerina.
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André Leon Talley, Vogue editor-at-large and Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief.
