Harry beats William as GQ’s prince of fashion

Rapper Tinie Tempah has been crowned this year’s best-dressed man – while the Duke of Cambridge has dropped out of the annual list.

Prince William made his debut at No 27 in GQ magazine’s ranking of 50 Best-Dressed Men in 2011.

But he has now slipped out of the list completely, while his brother, Prince Harry, is 25th – down from fifth place last year – and their father, the Prince of Wales, is 50th.

The magazine said of Harry: “His brother may end up as king, but this year the younger son has been crowned the prince of style” for looking good in “uniforms, well-cut suits [and] the dishevelled tumbling-out-of-a-nightclub jeans”.

Charles was said to have made 50th place for “proving the point that some men seem to grow into their wardrobe with age”.

The top ten is headed by Plumstead rapper Tempah, credited with possessing a “true passion for elegance and proportions”, followed by mohawk-sporting Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli and Doctor Who star Matt Smith, for being able to look “pretty cool” in clothes that “should be a joke”.

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson is fourth, ahead of Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield and Superman’s Henry Cavill, for being able to pull off a “super-hero outfit and a medieval doublet and hose”.

The Wire star Idris Elba, The Dark Knight’s Christian Bale, Kasabian guitarist Sergio Pizzorno and Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown, who could wear “a pair of plimsolls as earrings and you would wonder if you should too”, complete the top ten.

Footballer David Beckham has moved up three places from 16 last year to 13 in 2012. Take That star and X Factor judge Gary Barlow is a new entry at 16, and X Factor host Dermot O’Leary moves from 40 in 2011 to 18.