Andre 3000 - Sherp dressed man

Outkast rapper Andre 3000 has been voted the best dressed man in the world by US magazine Esquire.

"He's a complete individual," Esquire's fashion director Nick Sullivan said. "But that's really the point."

The flamboyant rap frontman has worn items such as a lime green jacket at the 2004 Grammy Awards and red fur at a VH1 ceremony last year reports BBC Online.

The rapper appears in a variety of costumes in a fashion spread in the magazine to celebrate the accolade.

Other figures who made the magazine's best-dressed shortlist included Afghani president Hamid Karzai and Prince Felipe of Spain.

The list was drawn up by a panel of fashion experts and Esquire editors.

Andre 3000, real name Andre Benjamin, formed Outkast with fellow rapper Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton in the early Nineties.

They achieved global success with their 2000 album Stankonia, but became a pop phenomenon last year with the double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, which topped many end of the year critics' polls.

Andre 3000 said in June that he would launch his own clothing label, Designs by Benjamin Andre, in time for Spring 2005.
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