If you have an interest in fashion then we’re sure you’ve seen plenty of best-dressed lists in your time, but BBC History magazine is compiling one that is unlike any other – a list of the best-dressed people throughout our entire history.
The list is being put together by experts, such as designer Wayne Hemminway, men’s fashion historian Dr. Benjamin Wild and Royal Collections Trust’s curator of paintings Anna Reynolds.
Here’s the full shortlist:
David Bowie – nominated by Wayne Hemmingway, designer.
Anne Messel – nominated by Amy de la Haye, professor of dress history and curatorship at London College of Fashion.
Queen Alexandra – nominated by Kate Strasdin, assistant curator at the Totnes Fashion and Textile Museum, Devon, and associate lecturer at Falmouth University.
Charles James Fox – nominated by Dr Hannah Greig, lecturer in early modern history at the University of York and author of The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London.
Elizabeth I – nominated by Ulinka Rublack, author of Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe.
George ‘Beau’ Brummell – nominated by Rachel Dickens, deputy art editor of BBC History Magazine.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire – nominated by Katy Werlin, fashion and textile historian specialising in the early modern period.
Samuel Pepys – nominated by Anna Reynolds, curator of paintings for the Royal Collections Trust and curator of the current exhibition, In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion, at the Queen’s Gallery, London.
Ellen Terry – nominated by Veronica Isaac, assistant curator in the Department of Theatre and Performance at the V&A, London.
If you want to vote for your favourite, head over to their website now. The winners of the poll will be announced on 15th October.
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Posted by Marianne Kaskela.
