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The International Best-Dressed List Hall of Fame

The International Best-Dressed list was created in the 1940s by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. Before Ms. Lambert died in 2003 at age 100, she passed it on to Vanity Fair, with the idea that the magazine would continue publishing an annual list. Eleanor started the best-dressed list in New York in 1940 at the onset of the Second World War. She took up the idea from a previous French-oriented best-dressed list that came to an end when France fell to the Nazis. She launched it with the intention of promoting American fashion and its designers. This was both a practical and revolutionary idea, and with it Eleanor transformed the garment industry into the world-famous fashion business.

In its earliest years it was dominated by very rich women and/or socialites, members of royalty, and occasionally a movie star (Rosalind Russell was the first). Ten years later the number of movie stars had increased substantially. An individual must be on the best-dressed list four times in order to be inducted into the hall of fame. This year Kate Moss joins the list and appears on the cover of VF wearing only patent-leather stiletto boots and white gloves. View the list…

Vanity Fair International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame

Post Published: 01 August 2006
Author: Gr8List
Found in section: Fashion & Beauty, Whole GR8 List

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