YOUR VOTES ARE IN! THE MOST GLAMOROUS WOMEN 0F 08 OUR PANEL OF STYLE EXPERTS AND OUR COVER GIRL, JESSICA, NOMINATED EM. THEN YOU GUYS THOUSANDS OF YOU VOTED ON GLAMOUR.COM. SO WHO MOST DEFINES CHIC THIS YEAR? THE LIST STARTS HERE! BLANCHETT: ARND WIEGMANN/REUTERS. BERRY: PETER BROOKER/REX USA. STEFANI: RAMEY PHOTO. KIDMAN: SUTTON-HIBBERT/REX USA. MCMULLAN: TOM GRIZZLE/PATRICK MCMUL- LAN. NORMANT: BILLY FARRELL/PATRICK MCMULLAN. POSEN: CORBIS. REESE: CELEBRITYPHOTO.COM. STANLEY AND ERLICH: DONATO SARDELLA/WIREIMAGE.COM CATE BLANCHETT She carries herself like a ballerina, says Jessica Simpson of the actress, who wowed at Berlin (right) this year. Patrick McMullan, celebrity party photographer Serge Normant, celebrity hairstylist Zac Posen, fashion designer HALLE BERRY The Oscar winner adapted her formfitting style for a sexy pregnant body without a hitch. She handles celebrity with poise and maturity, says Tracy Reese. Tracy Reese, fashion designer Jessica Simpson, actress, singer and our cover girl NICOLE KIDMAN A mom in 08 (like numbers one through four), she s made pale skin and red hair cool. Nicole is smart and has very good style, says Patrick Demarchelier. GWEN STEFANI On this fashionista even tracksuits are glam! Says Andrea Lieberman, She s old Hollywood with a rock n roll edge. Estee Stanley and Cristina Erlich, stylists and fashion designers
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When we think queen, we typically think, um, older and a bit dowdy. Not Her Majesty Rania. She s the indisputable queen of elegance, says Zac Posen. PENÉLOPE CRUZ The Spanish beauty has a thing for fashion (and Javier Bardem). She even designed a clothing line for Spanish mega-retailer Mango. She s chic in everything she does, say Estee Stanley and Cristina Erlich. SCARLETT JOHANSSON Number eight unabashedly owns her hotness. Says Demarchelier, She s one of the sexiest young actresses of her generation. KATE MOSS She s like the pied piper of fashion everyone follows exactly what she does, says Lieberman. SARAH JESSICA PARKER She made it OK to be a fashion eccentric, says Simon Doonan. The star of Sex and the City: The Movie has proven, as the designer of the cheap-chic line Bitten, that she likes a bargain too. Love her! BEYONCÉ KNOWLES More than just talent and smarts, this girl s got looks. When she steps out, she really steps out, says Reese. JENNIFER LOPEZ She commands the red carpet, says Lieberman. Sure, it all started long ago with that green dress, but J.Lo is Most Glam the same year she gave birth to twins. How fab! GWYNETH PALTROW Our number 12 is a modern-day Grace Kelly. Gwyneth is a goddess, says Posen. She can pull off whatever she wants. RAINA: JENS KALAENE/EPA/CORBIS. CRUZ: STEWART COOK/REX USA. JOHANSSON: DOMINIQUE CHARRIAU/WIREIMAGE.COM. MOSS: RAMEY PHOTO. PARKER: INFGOFF.COM. LOPEZ: STEPHEN LOCK/REX USA. PALTROW: KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE.COM. BEYONCE: GREG ALLEN/REX USA
IMAN: JOE SCHILDHORN/PATRICK MCMULLAN. COPPOLA AND DENEUVE: TONY BARSON/WIREIMAGE.COM. HOLMES: AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN.COM. RIHANNA: STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE.COM. COTILLARD: KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE.COM IMAN She s cultivated and still gorgeous at 52, says Doonan of the legendary model, cosmetics mogul and, yup, wife of David Bowie. SOFIA COPPOLA BFF and muse to Marc Jacobs, she s patented smartgirl style. Says Lieberman: Any woman who has the confidence to wear flat sandals on the red carpet is truly glamour to me. We love her in heels, too! CATHERINE DENEUVE A French icon. Catherine Deneuve exudes a very different kind of glamour she s sexy in a less obvious way, says Reed Krakoff. KATIE HOLMES The bob! Those clothes! Where d Joey Potter go? Mrs. Cruise is now officially a major fashion chick. Katie s style is chic without being stuffy, wrote Glamour reader Lauren Marquez. RIHANNA Hit songs + adorable style + edgy new haircut = one glam pop star. Welcome to the list, Rihanna! She s great at mixing hard and soft elements, says Xanthipi Joannides. All you need to know: She picked out her Oscars dress herself. Says Ivan Bart: She s fearless and fearless is glamorous. MARION COTILLARD 191
MADONNA She's mellowed into a look she could keep for decades not that she will. The queen of reinvention, says Lieberman. GISELE BÜNDCHEN What makes her sexy is her tomboy quality, says Serge Normant. This year she looked gorgeous in gowns and in jeans with Tom Brady. NATALIA VODIANOVA Vodianova ushered in the reign of the Eastern European model and still lands covers. Natalia can wear just about anything and make it glamorous, say Stanley and Erlich. CHRISTY TURLINGTON We love that we're more likely to see the supermodel with a yoga mat than on the runway. Her look is never too much or too little always just right, says Normant. SELMA BLAIR She s proof that having Karl Lagerfeld as your BDF (best designer friend) can t be bad. Selma keeps it flawless, say Stanley and Erlich. CAROLINA HERRERA The Venezuelanborn designer s signature: a classic white collared shirt. She s combined the power of her heritage with her New York lifestyle to become one of the greatest designers in history, says Krakoff. ISABELLA ROSSELLINI At age 56, you still love her! You have to be a little glamorous when your mom [Ingrid Bergman] was a major movie star, says McMullan. CHARLIZE THERON Beauty and brains it s an Oscar-winning combo for our number-27 Most Glam. Says Reese, You can feel the power emanating from her; she s no shrinking violet! KEIRA KNIGHTLEY She s a true ingenue model-like and glamorous, says McMullan. But we think it s her toughness that sets the awards-show darling apart from the pack. Go to glamour.com/ fashionbeauty for instant glam-up tricks. MADONNA: TIM ROOKE/REX USA. BUNDCHEN: JANET MAYER/SPLASHNEWS. VODIANOVA: JON FURNISS/WIREIMAGE.COM. TURLINGTON: DARA KUSHNER/INFGOFF.COM. BLAIR: JIM SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE.COM. HERRERA: MARIA VALENTINO/MCV PHOTO. ROSSELLINI: SCOTT WINTRAW/GETTY IMAGES. THERON: STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE.COM. KNIGHTLEY: JONATHAN HORDLE/REX USA 192
dolce vita style: bright, flirty, fun! Margherita takes great pleasure in the art of dressing, says Posen. MARGHERITA MISSONI An heiress of the famed Italian knitwear family, Missoni is all about MISSONI: DANIELE VENTURELLI/WIREIMAGE.COM. OPRAH: ERIK C. PENDZICH/REX USA. BRUNI-SARKOZY: REX USA. CHRISTIE: STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE.COM. GAINSBOURG: HAL HOROWITZ/WIREMAGE.COM. VON FURSTENBERG: RABBANI AND SOLIMENE PHOTOGRAPHY/WIREIMAGE.COM. SEYMOUR: RYAN BORN/WIREIMAGE.COM CARLA BRUNI-SARKOZY We re smitten. She s charming, she s chic! says Demarchelier of France s Dior-clad new first lady. JULIE CHRISTIE This actressicon codesigned her 2008 Oscar dress (right). Says Bart, I voted for her because showing age with grace is glam! OPRAH She loves hosting guests like Narciso Rodriguez and Tory Burch, bringing swanky clothes to daytime TV. She s grown gracefully into her power, with conscience and generosity, says Linda Fargo. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG & STEPHANIE SEYMOUR Our panelists concur. On DVF, above: She s made the world her oyster! says Fargo. On Gainsbourg, left: Classically cool with a twist, say Stanley and Erlich. On Seymour, below: A sex symbol, mother, art collector, inspiration! says Bart.
NAOMI CAMPBELL Well, we didn t say this was the best-behaved list. (Campbell even reported to her community service in Louboutin stilettos!) Says Posen: She shows ferocity and strength. CATHERINE ZETA-JONES Six years after Chicago, she s still capital-s sexy in an LBD. She always looks amazing, glam and age-appropriate, says Glamour reader Kelly Noyes. star never says Auf wiedersehen to great style. Her drive has made her a success, and her family adds to a picture-perfect life, says Bart. HEIDI KLUM More popular than ever this year, the Project Runway RACHEL ROY She s hands-down, flat-out, so chic, says Joannides of the designer, who has come a long way from her first fashion job at Contempo Casuals when she was 14! DIANE SAWYER, HELEN MIRREN The anchorwoman looks sharp even at 7 A.M. She's clearly a smart blond, says McMullan. And Dame Mirren she s the queen. AGYNESS DEYN Virtually an unknown name just a year ago. Now: Deyn has the best personal style of anyone, says Joannides. REESE WITHERSPOON With Jake at her side, the quintessential girl next door looks happier, and chicer, than ever! She s got an innate sense of style, confidence and Southern grace, says Glamour reader Colleen Burton. CAMPBELL: DAVID FISHER/REX USA. ROY: THEO WARGO/WIREIMAGE.COM. SAWYER: MICHEL LOCCISANO/FILMMAGIC.COM. MIRREN: KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE.COM. ZETA-JONES: JUN SATO/WIREIMAGE.COM. KLUM: BOB RIHA JR./WIREIMAGE.COM. WITHERSPOON: BAUER-GRIFFIN.COM. DEYN: STUART WILSON/GETTY IMAGES
LINDA EVANGELISTA Two decades after her runway-stomping days, she s still a chameleon, says Normant. She makes every look her own. BENING: FRANK MICELOTTA/GETTY IMAGES. KRUGER: RUPERT HARTLEY/REX USA. CONNELLY: MICHAEL GERMANA/GLOBE PHOTOS. HUDSON: PEREZ/FERMIN/INFGOFF.COM. HUTTON AND EVANGELISTA: ERIC CHARBONNEAU/WIREIMAGE.COM. BECKHAM: REX USA ANNETTE BENING Annette has panache! says Posen. Notorious playboy Warren Beatty was one smart man when he nabbed her 16 years ago. DIANE KRUGER: This under-the-radar German actress is a fave of Karl Lagerfeld s who are we to argue? She has a European style sensibility, says Joannides. JENNIFER CONNELLY Our office girl crush is the face of the Balenciaga campaign. She s an all-time star: elegant, classic, yet also quite sensual, says Normant. KATE HUDSON Your votes tell the story: You love this singlemom superstar. She always looks like herself, not like a stylist put her together, says Joannides. LAUREN HUTTON She paved the way for unconventional, realwoman beauty (so big this year) with her gap-tooth smile. Says Bart: She s all-american. VICTORIA BECKHAM She s gone from Spice Girl to L.A. royal. I admire Posh for taking care of herself. I m sick of PJs in public, says Glamour reader Tara James. WRITTEN BY: JENNY FELDMAN. REPORTED BY: TIFFANY BLACKSTONE, LAUREN BRADSHAW AND FIORELLA VALDESOLO 195