I thought the oversized Vivienne Westwood hat Pharrell Williams wore to the Grammys and the Oscars was comical — as ridiculous as Elmer Fudd’s deerstalker or the tank-driving helmet that helped keep Michael Dukakis out of the White House.
But the hat was a hit with the fashion oracles at Vanity Fair who run the International Best-Dressed List.
Pharrell is listed as a suggestion for this year’s list, along with hotelier André Balazs, NY Giants receiver Victor Cruz, cookbook author Alex Hitz, HBO boss Richard Plepler, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson, art dealer Vito Schnabel (who is dating Heidi Klum) and Fiat heir Jean Pigozzi, whose nationality is listed as “Panama, Switzerland and US.” Panama?
Voters who received their ballots last week were also urged to cast their ballots for Lupita Nyong’o; Blake Lively; Pippa Middleton; Cressida Bonas (though she just broke up with Prince Harry); Michelle Dockery, Lady Mary of “Downton Abbey”; Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer; Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden; IMF managing director Christine Lagarde; and three celebrity daughters: Lola Schnabel, Bee Shaffer (offspring of Vogue editor Anna Wintour) and Allison Williams.
Suggestions for the couples category include Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, Christy Turlington and Ed Burns, and Shirin von Wulffen and Frederic Fekkai.
The 2014 list, with 10 men and 10 women, will be unveiled in the September issue.