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Rufus Wainwright's Flair

Larry Busacca, Getty

Maybe it comes from being the son of folk stars Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, or maybe he’s just a very stylish man, but Rufus has gone through an incredible amount of transformations over the years -- from his baroque early years to his operatic digressions to his latest pop album collab with Mark Ronson -- and never been less than dandy, even when he was a druggie. That’s why we’ll never tire of Wainwright.