Vanity Fair has unveiled its Best Dressed List for 2019! The list which was divided into five categories; The Virtuosos, The Classics, The Originals, The Pros, and The Ensembles, features this year’s fashion trendsetters on the publication’s annual best-dressed list featuring a sheikha, an N.B.A. star, and notable Africans Kehinde Wiley and Reni Folawiyo.
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Joining the likes of Celine Dion, Billy Porter, Dwayne Wade among others, this year’s list features those who have dared to make statements from feminism to gender roles; as Vanity Fair put it: “Fashion hasn’t been this performative in decades“.
Scroll below to get Wiley’s and Folawiyo’s fashion secrets. And see the full list on www.vanityfair.com
KEHINDE WILEY
Occupation: Artist.
Home base: NYC, Beijing; Dakar, Senegal.
Happiest wearing: A chalk-line-print custom suit for the unveiling of his portrait of Barack Obama.
Trend I despise: Fast fashion “shows a disrespect for the ceremony surrounding clothing.”
Item I overuse: “Simple white Converse go with everything.”
Favorite designers: Amine Bendriouich, Sarah Diouf, Adebayo Oke-Lawal.
RENI FOLAWIYO
Occupation: Founder/CEO, Alara boutique.
Home base: Lagos, Nigeria.
Current obsession: Magical ’70s watches that “close up and become beautiful bracelets.”
Style icon: Josephine Baker.
Favorite designers: Duro Olowu, Phoebe Philo, Kenneth Ize, J.W. Anderson.
Bury me in: “Clothes are for living. Ask me to drinks after I just got a Valentino gown, I could turn up in that.”