Vanity Fair website – 1st August, 2012

Richard makes a welcome return to Vanity Fair magazine’s September Style issue, which includes the magazine’s annual International Best Dressed List. The “How to Get Ahead in Advertising” actor and “Wah-Wah” director featured in the Best-Dressed Men category for the first time since 2007.

The first 40 from the list are as follows:

1. Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, British style icon
2. Jessica Chastain, U.S. actress, star of The Help and Coriolanus
3. Bill Cunningham, 83, New York Times street style photographer
4. Léa Seydoux, French actress and model, appeared in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris
5. Jay-Z, aka Shawn Corey Carter, rapper, songwriter, record producer and husband of Beyoncé
6. Colin and Livia Firth, British actor and his Italian producer wife
7. Tom Brady, New England Patriots quarterback, husband of Gisele Bundchen
8. Alicia Keys, U.S. singer-songwriter and actress
9. Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress,singer and producer
10. Morley Safer, Canadian reporter and correspondent for CBS News
11. Michelle Harper, Colombian-born, New York-based brand consultant
12. Richard E Grant, actor, screenwriter, and director
13. HRH Princess Alexandra of Greece, child-life specialist
14. Carlos Souza, worldwide brand ambassador for Valentino
15. Farida Khelfa, French actress and director, new muse of house of Schiaparelli
16. Eddie Redmayne, British actor, star of My Week With Marilyn
17. Stacey Bendet, founder and designer of fashion label Alice & Olivia
18. Iké Udé, Nigerian-born artist
19. Diane Kruger, German actress and former model
20. Matteo Marzotto, president of fashion label Vionnet
21. Lauren and Andres Santo Domingo, Vogue contributing editor and her beer heir husband
22. Robert Rabensteiner, fashion editor at L’Uomo Vogue
23. Erika Bearman, senior vice president of global communications at Oscar de la Renta
24. Victor Cruz, wide receiver for the New York Giants
25. Ulyana Sergeenko, fashion designer
26. Matt Lauer, Today show co-anchor
27. Stella McCartney, fashion designer, daughter of Sir Paul McCartney
28. Prince Harry, British royal, Apache helicopter pilot
29. Lizzie Tisch, consultant, wife of Jonathan Tisch
30. Ozwald Boateng, British menswear designer
31. Poppy Delevigne, British model and socialite
32. Jean Pigozzi, entrepreneur, photographer, and art collector
33. Princess Mary of Denmark, wife of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, mother of four
34. Elettra Wiedemann, model, daughter of Isabella Rossellini
35. Vito Schnabel, son of Julian Schnabel, art dealer
36. Charlotte Casiraghi, Monaco royal, face of Gucci
37. Arki Busson, financier, partner of actress Uma Thurman
38. HH Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser of Qatar, wife of the Emir of Qatar
39. Ginevra Elkann and Giovanni Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona, Italian power couple; she is a producer, he is an entrepreneur
40. HSH Prince Heinrich von und zu Furstenberg, entrepreneur