Who’s really doing the styling?
Following the response to The New York Times' most stylish list, we found the people who actually deserve the credit.
By Eilidh Duffy
While there is always too much online discourse around the (entirely subjective) best-of-the-year lists that come out in December, with regard to the criticisms of The New York Times’ best dressed list of 2025 over the weekend, we can’t help but join in.
It has nothing to do with the actual choices. Let’s put aside additions that have less to do with fashion and to do with being a fashion victim (Labubus) and the jumpscares (Melania Trump). The issue is a lack of acknowledgement for the stylists who actually put together most of these looks.
The comment section on Instagram was quick to posit questions about authorship and authenticity. “This should be a list of the best stylists,” one Instagram comment reads. “Show me the team of people who make the glamour happen,” reads another. “I am so over the celebrities. Who’s putting in the work? Those people are the real story!”
Given it was only last week we announced the 1 Granary Design Awards winners – a celebration of the in-house designers whose names never appear in print – we decided to continue this good work and figure out who actually did the styling.
The stylish people and the people making them stylish:
A$AP Rocky > Matthew Henson
Sabrina Carpenter > Jared Ellner
Shohei Ohtani > Lydia Santangelo & Jess Toomey Melchionda
Alexander Skarsgård > Harry Lambert
Carlos Alcaraz > Marcel Peña
Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall and Chase Infiniti > Wayman Bannerman and Micah McDonald (Wayman + Micah)
Tyrese Haliburton > Olivier Rogers
Robby Hoffman > Richie Lee Davis
Margo Banks and Sophie O’Neil > Heidi Higginbotham
Bad Bunny > Storm Pablo
Christopher Briney > Daniela Viviana Romero, Lola Tung > Britt McCamey, Gavin Casalegno > Fiona Skye
Doechii > Sam Woolf
Claudia Sheinbaum does not have a single celebrity stylist; instead, she works with a small group of Mexican dressmakers, artisans, and image advisers within her political team.
Katseye > Humberto Leon (Creative Director)