#BestDressed: Vanity Fair’s Annual List Honors Amal, Taylor, RiRi, Sienna, Charlize, FKA Twigs & Its First Gay Couples

Eleanor Lambert in her office on 57th Street, in New York City in 1963

The Vanity Fair International Best Dressed list has a long legacy. It turns 75 this year. Fashion writer Eleanor Lambert founded it in 1940 and Jacqueline Kennedy received her first accolade in 1961, soon after her husband’s election. To Lambert the new First Lady represented

“fashion leadership to the average woman everywhere.”

…something sorely lacking today, except for the Met Ball & the Oscar‘s Red Carpet.Cher made a onetime showing, in 1971 and even though Diana, Princess of Wales was pregnant with Prince Harry (voted onto the current List in 2015) in 1984 Lambert declared her

“the world’s most influential woman of fashion today.”

Before her death at 100 in 2003, she officially handed the list over to four “friends at Vanity Fair.” In its current incarnation, Lambert’s list is, as she noted in 1986,

“as relevant a historical record of how we lived as anything else.”

This latest List reflects the recent Supreme Court marriage-equality ruling too by adding its first gay couples. Some of your favorites made the list too, I’m sure. With stylists influence these days, it is important to call out some REAL style now and then, isn’t it? Check out the full list here.