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David Cameron world's second best dressed man:
David Cameron has come second in GQ magazine's list of the world's best-dressed men.
The men's magazine's Charlie Porter - who also writes for the Guardian - was positively effusive about the Conservative leader's style: "Behold! Here's a politician who understands the news agenda is set as much by appearance as it is by words. He impressed our voters with his consistently improved appearance."
And Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Conde Nast, which publishes GQ, added firmly: "David Cameron is well-dressed. Smart in an understated, modern, fit-for-purpose kind of way."
Well-dressed? In common with male politicians across the western world, the Tory leader's default outfit is a fairly sober suit. But in the glacial world of men's fashion his occasional decision to dispense with his tie is an innovation to rival the splitting of the atom and the test-tube baby, and has been adopted by his shadow cabinet and copied by his rivals.
Like everything else in his campaign to rehabilitate the Conservative party - from his media-friendly gesture politics to the kitchen-sink videos on Webcameron - Cameron's clothing seems carefully stage-managed.
Some of his choices - such as his calculated use of Converse All Stars, which almost cancelled out the fashion cachet Kurt Cobain had given the brand by dying in a pair - have seemed a little forced, but it must be said that Dave looks genuinely at ease in the informal blue shirts and sports-casual jackets he often appears in. That's pretty rare in British politics.
GQ has boosted Cameron's profile before, with a cover spot and the tagline "Is David Cameron tough enough to be prime minister?" - a question whose answer the Tory leader's rather diffident gaze seemed to suggest might be no.
But the magazine's new survey brought less good news for Gordon Brown, the likely next Labour leader. He came second in the accompanying worst-dressed list; although, as is often the way with such awards, Cameron was also number six in that run-down.
For the record, Cameron beat such style icons as Jude Law, David Beckham and Pete Doherty to the top of the best-dressed list, although he was denied the top place by the charismatic James Bond star Daniel Craig.
And, just in case you're tempted to do some further research, be careful where you are when you type "cameron gq" into Google Image Search. Strangely, pictures of the Tory leader are rather less common than those of a more popular men's magazine cover star: Cameron Diaz.
It's a funny old world isn't it?
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Here you go.
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That fills us in on the news here.
Not David Cameron coming in second. But who came in first.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517341.stm
That fills us in on the news here.
Not David Cameron coming in second. But who came in first.
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Agreed, one of the few times he showed such odd style. At least he kept his class at the premieres.paco chaos wrote:I think Craig looks well dressed in the films, but when he was on Late show with David Letterman, he looked sloppy. blue denim jeans with a sport coat and tie. yuck. what is this? Dukes of Hazzard meets James Bond?
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Makes you wonder why he's voted #1
But then I noticed this and he doesn't look that bad.
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Makes you wonder why he's voted #1
But then I noticed this and he doesn't look that bad.
http://team.commanderbond.net/evan.will ... poster.jpg