Vanity Fair's Best Dressed List 2007

Vanity Fair has been naming the best dressed public figures for almost seven decades and the time has come for the awaited 2007 best dressed list. The list is compiled through votes in a poll given to fashion professionals, editors, retailers, etc. Chosen for individual sense of style without a stylist in conjunction with looking appropriate this September a number of Condé Nasters make the cut, including some from VF's own masthead. Fashion and style director Michael Roberts, Vanity Fair contributing editor Lisa Eisner and photographer at large Jonathan Becker appear, as do Mitch Glazer, Hollywood producer and close friend of Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, and his wife, actress Kelly Lynch. Glazer is editing the magazine for Condé Nast Media Group's latest brand extension, "Movies Rock." Corporate cousin Vogue is also well represented, with Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley; Vogue style director Alexandra Kotur; Marina Rust Connor, Vogue contributing editor, and Bee Shaffer, daughter of Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. (Of note: Shaffer does not list her mother as a fashion icon in her blurb — instead opting for Joan Didion, Irving Penn and her sister-in-law, Kathryn Neale, but she does admit to borrowing her mother's sunglasses.)

The list also recognizes Michelle Obama, Renee Zellweger, Princess Alexandra from Greece, photographer Fran Lebowitz, athelete and now journalist Tiki Barber, fashionable couples David and Victoria Beckham, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Ruben and Isabel Toledo. Why name them to the list? "Because they're Manhattan's Latins," says the magazine. (They and nearly half a million others, according to the 2000 New York Census.)

One of those "Latins," Gisele Bündchen, is on Vanity Fair's September cover. The leggy Brazilian was shot by Mario Testino, who, along with Roberts, also produced a Brazilian photo feature inside. — S.D.S.

The September issue will be at your newsstands on Wednesday.

Source and Photo Cred: Today Show and WWD