Obama tops 2009 best-dressed list from Roger Stone

Political analyst Roger Stone publishes an annual best-and-worst dressed list.Political analyst Roger Stone publishes a best-dressed and worst-dressed list each year, and it’s easily one of the most entertaining lists of its kind. For many years designer Richard Blackwell published such a list; Blackwell now rests wherever designers go when they pass on. What makes Stone’s list so much fun, in my opinion, is the commentary.

Few would disagree with his top designee, President Barack Obama, earning honors for best-dressed.

In naming the U.S. president tops for threads among males, Stone said of the commander-in-chief’s style: “Never extreme, never loud, never bright, it's the somber look you want in a President. He wears a two button soft shoulder suit in the American style.”

Carla Bruni, wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, took top honors for women. Stone said the French beauty’s fashion preferences are “casual and a sexy style that is continental, chic, and understated.”

Stone expanded his descriptive with sexier language about Bruni, but we’ll leave it to the reader to visit StoneZone for that. Once you read it, bear in mind the same might apply to our president, and we base that on breathy essays and statements from neolib females who conjured all sorts of daydream possibilities about Obama. One Salon essayist described the phenomenon as US women “voting with their loins.”

Michael Moore tops Stone’s slob list for guys—we’d agree on that one. In Moore’s defense, we’d like to point out it’s hard for him to really look good in anything. Yet he can make an excellent film when he chooses to, so apparently, God compensated Moore for his lack of fashion acumen.

For top female slob, Stone selected Sarah Silverman. “What is it,” he asked, “with the hoodies?”

Stone’s sense of fashion has been praised by tony magazines and every time I’ve seen him on TV or in still shots, he cuts a fine figure. Whatever his politics, he takes the fashion list seriously enough to praise and diss conservs and neolibs equally. What sets his list aside is the commentary—pure Stone, unedited, unfettered and unapologetic.

While I’m commenting on Stone, I’d like to confer an award of my own. Of all the people I interviewed in 2009 for political commentary, news or features, Stone was the most unpredictable and the most interesting.

Therefore I designate the political analyst/annual fashion guru Roger Stone most intriguing interview subject of 2009. 

Whatever your politics, Stone's annual list is an entertaining read.