Issue No. 2 · September 2026
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    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    The Most Famous Fashion and Beauty Icons in the World

    Top 65 of 65 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Everyone, living or dead, on one scale: 55 of the 65 listed are living.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous Fashion and Beauty Icons in the World is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    1
    Rihanna
    BBcelebrityAlive
    37.2
    2
    Kim Kardashian
    UScelebrityAlive
    35.4
    3
    Selena Gomez
    UScelebrityAlive
    32.1
    4
    Lady Gaga
    UScelebrityAlive
    32.1
    524.5
    6
    Melania Trump
    SIcelebrityAlive
    23.3
    7
    Kendall Jenner
    UScelebrityAlive
    22.8
    8
    Emma Watson
    GBpublic figureAlive
    22.4
    9
    Jay-Z
    UScelebrityAlive
    22.1
    10
    Rafael Nadal
    EScelebrityAlive
    21.6
    11
    Hailey Bieber
    UScelebrityAlive
    20.7
    12
    Heidi Klum
    DEcelebrityAlive
    20.2
    13
    Georgina Rodríguez
    ARcelebrityAlive
    19.4
    14
    Gisele Bündchen
    BRcelebrityAlive
    19.4
    15
    Gigi Hadid
    UScelebrityAlive
    19.1
    16
    Brigitte Bardot
    FRpublic figure
    18.9
    1718.7
    18
    Gwyneth Paltrow
    UScelebrityAlive
    18.6
    1917.6
    20
    Irina Shayk
    RUcelebrityAlive
    17.3
    21
    Diane Kruger
    DEcelebrityAlive
    15.9
    22
    Coco Chanel
    FRcelebrity
    15.0
    23
    Anne, Princess Royal
    GBcelebrityAlive
    14.9
    24
    Khloé Kardashian
    UScelebrityAlive
    14.9
    25
    Cindy Crawford
    UScelebrityAlive
    14.8
    26
    Adriana Lima
    SVcelebrityAlive
    14.7
    27
    Kate Moss
    GBcelebrityAlive
    14.3
    28
    Kareena Kapoor
    INcelebrityAlive
    14.1
    29
    Mukesh Ambani
    INcelebrityAlive
    14.0
    30
    Bernard Arnault
    FRcelebrityAlive
    13.8
    31
    Katrina Kaif
    HKcelebrityAlive
    13.7
    3213.5
    33
    Brooke Shields
    UScelebrityAlive
    13.5
    34
    Cara Delevingne
    GBcelebrityAlive
    13.0
    3512.8
    36
    Hunter Schafer
    UScelebrityAlive
    12.5
    37
    Carla Bruni
    FRcelebrityAlive
    12.5
    38
    Miranda Kerr
    AUcelebrityAlive
    12.4
    39
    Sienna Miller
    GBcelebrityAlive
    12.1
    40
    Catherine Deneuve
    FRcelebrityAlive
    12.0
    41
    Anna Wintour
    GBcelebrityAlive
    11.9
    42
    Léa Seydoux
    FRcelebrityAlive
    11.8
    4311.7
    44
    Eva Braun
    DEcelebrity
    11.6
    45
    Dodi Fayed
    EGcelebrity
    11.6
    46
    Donatella Versace
    ITcelebrityAlive
    11.6
    4711.5
    48
    Claudia Schiffer
    DEcelebrityAlive
    11.4
    49
    Elizabeth Hurley
    GBcelebrityAlive
    11.2
    5011.2
    5111.1
    52
    Tyra Banks
    UScelebrityAlive
    11.0
    53
    Kaia Gerber
    celebrityAlive
    10.9
    54
    Lee Jong-suk
    KRcelebrityAlive
    10.9
    55
    Emily Ratajkowski
    GBcelebrityAlive
    10.6
    56
    Katie Price
    GBcelebrityAlive
    10.6
    57
    Jamie Dornan
    GBcelebrityAlive
    10.6
    58
    Jean Paul Gaultier
    FRcelebrityAlive
    10.5
    59
    Elsa Pataky
    EScelebrityAlive
    10.2
    60
    Marc Jacobs
    UScelebrityAlive
    10.2
    61
    Riley Keough
    UScelebrityAlive
    10.1
    62
    Park Shin-hye
    KRcelebrityAlive
    10.1
    63
    Park Min-young
    KRcelebrityAlive
    9.9
    64
    Josephine Baker
    FRpublic figure
    9.9
    65
    Anna Kournikova
    RUcelebrityAlive
    9.9

    About this list

    This list ranks the most famous fashion and beauty icons in the world as of September 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 65 of 65 names the rankings measured in this sector, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 55 of the 65 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.

    Rihanna is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Rihanna come Kim Kardashian and Selena Gomez.

    What famous means here

    Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.

    The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.

    How the list was ranked

    The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.

    About Fashion & Beauty

    Fashion & Beauty is one of the sectors the journal ranks every month, alongside every country, origin and region list in this issue. Sector lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared across sectors and against the world. Designers, models, beauty brands and runway culture.

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    iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.

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    Cite as
    "Rihanna, No. 1 on The Most Famous Fashion and Beauty Icons in the World", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

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