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" After holding multiple panel discussions, creating dozens of algorithms, and downing a whole lot of caffeine, we bring you our third-annual list of the best-dressed men in the world: an exclusive club of individuals who get it exactly right, whose personal style is worthy of acknowledgment and esteem--and emulation. Somewhere in this group, there is a man--from a soccer coach to a music producer to a former dictator--whose fashion sense is a more refined version of your own. Find that man; let him be your guide. Here, this year&amp;#039;s top twenty.  20) Jurgen Klinsmann, 42, SOCCER COACH  All coaches should take a cue from Klinsmann, the former coach of the German national team. His simple, tapered white shirts, their sleeves rolled in tight geometric perfection, put Bruce Arena to shame.  19) Tony Parker,24, BASKETBALL PLAYER With his substantial tie knots and pocket squares, Parker is the second-best-dressed man in the NBA (see number 13). That he zips up Eva Longoria&amp;#039;s dresses on a regular basis means he&amp;#039;s probably not all that concerned about the slight.  18) Barack Obama, 45, U. S. SENATOR The junior senator from Illinois, the trim Obama wears well tailored, if sober, two-button suits and--most striking inside the Beltway--impeccable ties. More important, he does so in a city where the silhouette of James Sensenbrenner is more the rule than the exception.  17) Brendan Benson, 35, MUSICIAN It&amp;#039;s clear just from the video for &amp;quot;Steady, As She Goes,&amp;quot; the single from the supergroup the Raconteurs, Benson&amp;#039;s songwriting collaboration with Jack White, which of the two Detroit power-pop rockers exerts more influence on style. When Benson wears a blazer, he&amp;#039;s wearing a blazer--not an ironic outfit (e.g., the all-red outfit, the all-white outfit, the all-black outfit). And not since Honest Abe has anyone pulled off a stovepipe hat.  16) Tom Brady, 29, FOOTBALL PLAYER (number 11 in 2005) The three-time Super Bowl winner lost to Denver in the playoffs last season. And we still don&amp;#039;t trust the grin. But the Patriots&amp;#039; quarterback is the best-dressed man in his sport, with runner-up status going to Curtis Martin--or maybe Clinton Portis.  15) Andre 3000, 31, MUSICIAN AND ACTOR (2005: number 5) Two years after we named him Best Dressed Man in the World, he&amp;#039;s blending styles past and future more originally and deftly than ever.  14) Joe Biden, 63, U. S. SENATOR The outspoken senior senator from Delaware and ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has at times seemed the only opposition the opposition party has to offer. His style--strong, traditional suits, bold power ties, subtle pocket squares, weighty cuff links, substantial watches--unmistakably says &amp;quot;authority.&amp;quot; Whether he can raise as much money as Hillary for the nomination in 2008 is another matter, but at least he dresses like he can.  13) Dwyane Wade, 24, BASKETBALL PLAYER  D-Wade&amp;#039;s answer to the NBA dress code: Look so sharp that you put David Stern and the rest of the league&amp;#039;s suits to shame. The Miami Heat guard and &amp;#039;06 NBA Finals MVP always looks good off the court, favoring well tailored suits with an accompanying pocket square and fedora.  12) Patrick Dempsey, 40, ACTOR The Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy leading man often pairs dark, well cut suits with crisp white open-collared shirts. The effect is modern classic. The accomplishment is that the look makes us forget about Can&amp;#039;t Buy Me Love. 11) Jay-Z, 35, MUSICIAN AND RECORD EXECUTIVE (2005: number 10) Year after year, there&amp;#039;s no one else who can consistently trump Trump in the boardroom and out-Diddy Diddy after hours. He&amp;#039;s as smooth and effortless in his corporate persona as he is performing for a crowd. Plus, he looks more comfortable in a Knicks jersey than Steve Francis did all season.  10) Brian Williams, 47, NEWS ANCHOR Since taking over for Tom Brokaw more than a year ago, Williams has put his own stamp on NBC Nightly News--less stuffy, more personal. Unlike many of his colleagues, Williams doesn&amp;#039;t let his clothes stifle his character. He retains the dignity we expect from a newscaster but brings a new approachability, the look of a man who&amp;#039;s smiling because he wants to, not because the TelePrompTer told him to. Couric and Gibson don&amp;#039;t stand a chance.  9) Ioan Gruffudd, 32, ACTOR This nattily clad Welshman lives up to his Mr. Fantastic persona less when he&amp;#039;s wearing the tight blue superhero costume and more when he&amp;#039;s wearing just about anything else. Sleek and well groomed on every red carpet he walks, Gruffudd is as confident a dresser as his name is confusing.  8) Pharrell Williams, 33, PRODUCER (2005: number 1) He has the album-defining touch of Rick Rubin but thankfully none of Rubin&amp;#039;s fashion sense. 2005&amp;#039;s Best Dressed Man is back on our list because of his unmatched ability to pull off a look that&amp;#039;s both casual and preppy, as comfortable at a record-release party as it would be at a Mensa meeting. Besides, a man who can make plum look cool deserves at least another year.  7) Clive Owen, 41, ACTOR His look is as much about his attitude as it is about his clothing. Like most of the characters he&amp;#039;s played, Owen has an innate and intimidating confidence, and it&amp;#039;s reflected in both his sophisticated, modern style and his ever-present smirk. It takes balls to wear a velvet jacket. But it takes style to wear it well.  6) Common, 34, MUSICIAN When a man is as dapper at a concert as he is at an awards show, you know it&amp;#039;s not something forced on him by a stylist. And when that man is in an industry where donning a throwback jersey is considered dressing up, well, it&amp;#039;s even more impressive. Fat ties, cashmere sweaters, tweed jackets--no one does layering better.  5) Nick Cave, 48, MUSICIAN AND SCREENWRITER It&amp;#039;s been Nick Cave&amp;#039;s year. After decades of making the darkest, most intriguing postpunk around, the Australian songwriter decided he wanted to write a movie. The result, The Proposition, a blood-soaked nation-founding story, is the best thing to come out of Australia since The Year of Living Dangerously. Cave&amp;#039;s dark, formfitting suits over even darker shirts are the perfect style corollary to his brooding music.  4) Jake Gyllenhaal, 25, ACTOR (2005: NUMBER 2) With his rumpled, comfortable style, Gyllenhaal has a classic all-American look that says he&amp;#039;s moneyed and proper but not above occasionally sleeping in his clothes. That&amp;#039;s not to say you can&amp;#039;t dress him up. The man can pull off a tux better than George Clooney.  3) Terrence Howard, 37, ACTOR Nominated for a best-actor Oscar for convincingly portraying a pimp turned rapper in Hustle &amp;amp;amp; Flow, Howard smartly showed up to the awards dressed as neither. He didn&amp;#039;t win, but when Philip Seymour Hoffman took the stage wearing a black shirt and blinding Regis Philbin tie, we couldn&amp;#039;t help but think that maybe, in a way, he did.   2)John Legend, 27, MUSICIAN  This three-time Grammy Award winner dresses exactly like he sounds: smooth. Which means that whether he&amp;#039;s in jeans or a three-piece, he automatically owns the room and, like it or not, probably the heart of your girlfriend. A man with a voice like this--with an effect on women like this--could have a closet full of carpenter pants and still make our list.  BEST-DRESSED DEFENDANT SADDAM HUSSEIN Sure, a necktie was probably forbidden for security reasons, but even so, the combination of an open-collared shirt, a dark suit, and complete indignation makes for an effective, determined look that says, &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s do this.&amp;quot; Or maybe &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s get this over with.&amp;quot; THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD LYLE LOVETT When Lyle Lovett walks into a room, he cuts a figure like both a lay preacher and a man with a knife in his boot, and you wish you were wearing what he has on. Clothes hang beautifully on his ironwood frame, of course, but this is less about the efficacy of a crisp black suit or denim old enough to be studying algebra than a man knowing how to be. It&amp;#039;s in the way he springs up when a lady leaves the table; it&amp;#039;s in his music as he, song by song, takes careful ownership of country, jazz, and gospel. It&amp;#039;s how he emerged from a celebrity marriage with as much dignity as he had going in. It&amp;#039;s not just style. It&amp;#039;s certainty.  PREVIOUS WINNERS: GEORGE CLOONEY, BRAD PITT, JOHNNY DEPP, TOM FORD, WES ANDERSON TIE KNOT OF THE YEAR MICHAEL IRVIN Rule of thumb: Your tie knot should never be wider than your smile. Michael Irvin should either be the first commentator in the history of halftime shows to wear an ascot or go with the simple Windsor.  ENIGMA OF THE YEAR KANYE WEST West is the only man on the planet who could make us reconsider our first impression of his oversize gloves with oversize lapels on a lavender jacket with matching waistcoat. The first impression being: &amp;quot;Kanye, what the hell&amp;#039;s going on?&amp;quot; The thing is, we said the same thing two years ago when he donned a pink Polo shirt and a fat gold chain, and look where that got him.  ACCESSORY OF THE YEAR JENNIFER ANISTON Classic fit; soft but durable; 50 percent delightful, 50 percent incredibly hot. For the love of God, wash by hand. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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