Artist Kehinde Wiley, Collector Pamela Joyner, and Other Art-World Power Players Make Vanity Fair’s 2019 Best-Dressed List

The archetypal art professional wears a consistent uniform of
head-to-toe black. But that won’t land you on Vanity Fair‘s
best-dressed list.

Luckily for the art world, a few more colorfully attired
artists, collectors, and dealers did make the cut for this year’s
lineup, which was released today. Among the anointed are
collector Pamela Joyner, artist Kehinde Wiley, and art dealer
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn.

Also on the list are celebrity power couple turned art collectors David and
Victoria Beckham—she has basically become the public face of
Sotheby’s Old Masters
department—and actress Chloë Sevigny, a
fixture of the New York art-world party scene who counts Poison
Ivy, Joan of Arc, and Thumbelina among her style icons. There’s
also designer Rei Kawakubo, founder and creative director of Comme
des Garçons, who in 2017 had her own show at New
York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, courtesy of the Costume
Institute.

This year’s list got a boost of art-world cred from writer and
curator Kimberly Drew, a member
of the 2019 judging committee and author of the magazine’s
October cover story on Lupita Nyong’o.

In previous years, art dealer Vito Schnabel and
artists Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, and David
Hockney have all made the list.

Take a closer look at the art-world figures honored for their
superior fashion sense below.

Pamela Joyner, cultural
philanthropist, collector

A champion of African American artists and a board member of the
Getty and the Art Institute of Chicago, Pamela Joyner and her
husband, Alfred J. Giuffrida, have toured their art
collection to museums around the country. She
told Vanity Fair that her least favorite fashion
trend is “casual that devolves to sloppy,” and that her preferred
look is “classic with a curated edge.” Joyner listed Dorothy
Dandridge, Katharine Hepburn, and Madame de Pompadour as her
personal style icons, describing them as “women ahead of their
time.”

Kehinde Wiley,
artist

The magazine singled out the chalk-line-print custom suit that
Kehinde Wiley wore at the unveiling of his official
portrait of former President Barack Obama at the National
Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, as an example of his bold
signature style. The artist offered an unexpected fashion tip,
telling Vanity Fair that “simple white Converse
go with everything,” while excoriating so-called “fast fashion,”
which he believes “shows a disrespect for the ceremony surrounding
clothing.”

Solange, artist and
musician 

Solange might be best known as a musician, but she’s certainly
earned her art world bonafides over the years, most recently by
working with artists Jacolby Satterwhite and Rob Pruitt on
a performance art music
video for her record When I Get
Home that screened at museums
across the UK and the US this summer. Fashion designer Duro
Olowu, husband of Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden,
who appeared on last year’s list and helped select this year’s,
praised Solange’s ability to understand and explore style “as a
radical art of presentation.”

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn,
gallerist, Salon 94, New York

“I’m into uniforms. Overused is good—buy two next time!” Jeanne
Greenberg-Rohatyn advised Vanity Fair, sharing her love of
black wool-lined Birkenstocks, Nike Air VaporMax X Off-White
sneakers, and sculptural Karl Fritsch rings.

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