Vanity Fair Goes Gaga on Best-Dressed List
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Gaga, Obama and Beckham are among the names being honored this year on Vanity Fair's annual Best-Dressed List.
The most eyebrow-raising choices on the magazine's annual list of top tastemakers are in the "originals" category, which include cover girl Lady Gaga, designer John Galliano and actress Helena Bonham Carter.
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The magazine said that Gaga channels the "Dada Catholic girl" in the spirit of Gypsy Rose Lee and Rosie, the Jetson's robot maid, while Bonham Carter, who says her favorite item of clothing is her "bloomers," is inspired by Vivienne Westwood and Marie Antoinette.
Galliano finds his role model in Oliver Twist, and his favorite shoes are his "lucky biker boots."
Soccer star David Beckham was elected to the list's Hall of Fame, which also includes writer Countess Marina Cicogna, Germany's Princess Mafalda of Hess, Julia Koch and Vogue style director Alexandra Kotur.
Vanity Fair sends ballots to thousands of people, in the U.S. and abroad, believed to have the inside track on style, including designers, retailers, editors, socialites, photographers and entertainers. Amy Fine Collins, Aimee Bell and Reinaldo Herrera oversee the 71-year-old list, which the magazine inherited from the late fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert in 2004.
This year marks first lady Michelle Obama's fourth consecutive appearance, noting she has practically single-handedly revived arms, belts, cardigans, shifts, high hair and kitten-heel pumps, and it's the third year for France's Dior-wearing first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. British first lady Samantha Cameron is making her debut, with the magazine pointing to her wardrobe full of brooches, bib necklaces and the labels Phillip Lim and Erdem.
Fashion as a category is, of course, well represented with Tory Burch, Elber Albaz of Lanvin, Georgina Chapman of Marchesa, Stacey Bendet Eisner of Alice & Olivia, and Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive making the cut, as well as Ralph Lauren's three adult children, David, Dylan and Andrew.
Hollywood stars Diane Kruger, Carey Mulligan, Javier Bardem, Martin Scorsese, Alec Baldwin, Pharrell Williams, siblings Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, and couple Ed Burns and Christy Turlington also made the list.