Like Ab Fab’s Patsy, reincarnated for the year of Gaga. Japanese Vogue’s editor-at-large takes the catwalk looks that make normal people point and laugh, and wears them as daywear. With no makeup. In 2010, if you love fashion, you loved ADR. Photograph: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images
One Direction collectively smashed a varsity jacket. But nothing came close to Harry’s mop of curls. Part indie-boy mess, part French arthouse, part young Mick Jagger. Photograph: Ken McKay/TalkbackThames / Rex F
Former Dolce and Gabbana model and now the Fashion editor at L’Uomo Vogue. She manages to look directional but elegant while whipping the streetstyle bloggers into a frenzy at the shows. Photograph: Venturelli/WireImage
Her Jimmy Choo brand made her a £100m fortune before her 40th birthday, and she collected her OBE this year looking like a Jackie Collins heroine. A kick-ass businesswoman rocking next-season’s polka dot. We love. Photograph: Ray Tang / Rex Features
The smoulder more suited to a Facebook profile than an MI6 dossier, the From Russia With Love military jacket, the henna-red hair. The 28-year-old alleged spy brings espionage chic up to date. Photograph: AP
Costumed by Jeffrey Kurland, of Ocean’s Eleven slickness, Inception committed 100% sartorially. Proper slicked-back hair plus modern tailoring: mismatched or three-piece. Note: both actors continued the good work on red carpets. Photograph: Stephan Vaughn
Courtroom chic is a sartorial subject all of its own. Naomi played a blinder at former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial in The Hague: what could be sweeter or more innocent than demure tailoring in the shade of homemade lemonade, with a retro, Supremes-era beehive. It was all going so well, until she started talking. Photograph: Rex Features/Rex Features
Baden Baden was all about the Wags, but the World Cup in South Africa was about the managers. Germany’s Joachim Low is a connoisseur of fine-weave knitwear and knows how to loop a scarf. Hair that was made to be raked sexily on the sidelines at moments of high drama. Photograph: Argenpress / Rex Features
No one looks better in the controlled chic of Céline than the 38-year-old woman behind the label. She was rightly crowned designer of the year at the British fashion awards. Cheekbones. Jumpsuits. Ludicrously cool. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
Martin Margiela, Jeremy Scott, Viktor & Rolf: the labels in Rihanna’s wardrobe point to a girl who likes her fashion with extra attitude. Pretty frocks need not apply. Asymmetry and colour-blocking a speciality. Amazing hair. Photograph: Ken McKay/TalkbackThames / Rex F
Haute couture meets haute demure. The second wife of the Emir of Qatar always wears made to measure and is this year’s Jackie O. She is expected to take the 2022 Wag look to a whole new level. Photograph: XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM/DS
Cheryl lost the plot this series style-wise (see: fire-engine red hair) and Dannii came into her own. She knows that glamour starts with a great silhouette and fabulous hair. Channelling 2011’s 70s maxi-chic early. Photograph: Ken McKay/TalkbackThames / Rex F
The reigning monarchy fash-champ is consistently ahead of the curve. HRH was a camel coat early adopter. And as for his doublebreastedness – utterly 2011. Royal wedding outfit excitement factor: high. Photograph: Rex Features
Believes that clothes are a bona fide tool of her broadcasting trade but was alas denied a tax rebate on them by HM Revenue and Customs. This woman understands the power of a good wardrobe. Photograph: Julian Makey / Rex Features
Smart ex-fashion PR who has helped Samantha Cameron craft a Grazia-friendly image. Prime mover in the Downing Street/Bond Street love-in (once worked for new government adviser and Tory donor, Anya Hindmarch). She knows how to win voters by putting an Erdem dress with the right M&S court shoe. Photograph: Steve Back / Rex Features
Christopher Kane’s sister, collaborator and muse. The best legs in Dalston, a gorgeous smile, a sleek ponytail and a wardrobe of Kane’s finest. Fashion desk girl crush. (Pictured with her brother) Photograph: LTA/Mandatory Credit: Lia Toby/WENN.
The French version of Kate Moss: same easy beauty, same free-spirit sex appeal, but with that enviable French woman’s self-control (you never see VP stumbling bleary-eyed into a taxi) Top-to-toe Chanel, natural beauty, gap teeth and lipstick is such a good look. Sigh. Photograph: Universal/Everett / Rex Features
Who says wearing trainers with suits looks naff? Not this fashion photographer. Clearly, he cares about his clothes, but he still manages to radiate nonchalance. Sartorial equation: neat + casual ÷ a bit fashiony = cool. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features
Beckham style-stock has not been so high since the time before their wedding turned them into a global byword for bling. These days she does pared-down, chic day-dresses, while he does an Aiden Grimshaw quiff and a classy coat. They’re back. Photograph: Startraks Photo / Rex Features
Inventor of hair whipping and professional colour blocker. Seen in leopard harems (with leopard bomber) and a neon-yellow “arm piece”. Ten years old. Awesomeness. Be scared. Photograph: MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images
