Best dress of the year

As Guy Trebay, in a October 7, 2007 New York Times magazine story, described it, "At Jil Sander, the designer Raf Simons showed a sleek, sculptural dress with a network of tightly constructed pleats that converged at the small of the back. It was as if the garment were an attempt by this cerebral designer to externalize the nerve-rich anatomical crossroads that tantric texts describe as the seat of erotic power and, provided you hit the correct button, of bliss."

Black wool with sun-ray detail.

$1,875 at Bergdorf Goodman.

Guy Trebay stands above and apart from the rest of the fashion writer pack — always has and always will.