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Grace Jones, Nicole Kidman, Tom Ford: The All-Timers on Vanity Fair’s 2026 Best Dressed List

There are people whose sense of style is so enduring that they are among the best-dressed year after year—our perennial favorites.

By Vanity Fair

August 25, 2026

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Tom Ford is credited with saying that “dressing well is a form of good manners.” Perhaps that’s why the filmmaker and designer is always wearing a black suit. Like others of his ilk, say, Dapper Dan or Lisa Eisner, Ford is an inarguably perennially best-dressed person. Actors Nicole Kidman and Chloë Sevigny have been on best-dressed lists for as long as they’ve been public figures. Grace Jones has been a muse to Azzedine Alaïa, and Tracee Ellis Ross has gone from walking Thierry Mugler’s runway alongside her mother in the ’90s to being an inspiration to designers like Marc Jacobs, our 2026 Style Issue cover star. Discover the 10 perennials on our Vanity Fair Best Dressed List here.

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TOM FORD
OCCUPATION Fashion designer
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A Ford classic: a perfectly tailored black velvet jacket and tuxedo pants accessorized with a bow tie and his signature sunglasses
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Reinventing Gucci, his black suits
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DAPPER DAN
OCCUPATION Fashion designer
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A white three-piece suit with a zebra-print blouse and white hat
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME His irreverent, pioneering fashion remixes and collages of various luxury brand logos

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TRACEE ELLIS ROSS
OCCUPATION Actor
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK An Alaïa by Pieter Mulier dress consisting of a white oversize T-shirt and fringed skirt plus a leather jacket and burgundy tights
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Always being one of the first to wear a look off the runway
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NICOLE KIDMAN
OCCUPATION Actor
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A custom blood-red sequined gown by Matthieu Blazy for Chanel. “Red is vitality,” she said on the carpet at the 2026 Met Gala when asked about the story behind her gown.
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Onscreen, a variety of wigs. Off-screen, a movie star gown

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CHLOË SEVIGNY
OCCUPATION Actor
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK An off-the-shoulder butter yellow dress with a high slit and dramatic train, here held by her son Vanja, by Chinese designer Samuel Guì Yang
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Being one of New York City’s proto It girls
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LAUREN SANTO DOMINGO
OCCUPATION Cofounder of Moda Operandi
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A vintage Rochas dress and jacket by Olivier Theyskens from his fall-winter 2003 collection for the house
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Being the ultimate contemporary socialite and the last swan standing, plus her much-mythologized good taste

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LENNY KRAVITZ
OCCUPATION Musician
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A denim-on-denim pair of übertight jeans and matching vest with a colorful chain mail blouse underneath, some bug-eyed sunglasses, and the rock star studded belt de rigueur
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME So committed Kravitz is to his look that he works out in leather pants.
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AMY FINE COLLINS
OCCUPATION Journalist
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A tweed skirt suit by Thom Browne paired with a shaggy cropped jacket, all in gray
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Her devotion to Thom Browne’s designs and authoring The International Best-Dressed List: The Official Story

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GRACE JONES
OCCUPATION Singer, model
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A charcoal double-breasted suit by Michael Rider, the American designer of Parisian It brand Celine
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Having been a muse to designer Azzedine Alaïa and a generational model
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LISA EISNER
OCCUPATION Artist, jewelry designer
MOST MEMORABLE LOOK A bright turquoise cheongsam-cut dress with silver metallic jacquard motifs plus a pink feather jacket made from a Bob Mackie boa and white cat-eye sunglasses
FASHION CLAIM TO FAME Her own line of bold artisanal jewelry