Stefani best-dressed

Gwen Stefani

Singer Gwen Stefani has knocked Kate Moss off the top of the best-dressed list.

The flamboyant star has been crowned Britain's top fashion icon by style bible Harpers & Queen.

Moss is relegated to third - her only consolation is that she is ranked one place above arch rival Sienna Miller.

Stefani, 35, is famed for her bold fashion choices, always set off by platinum hair and ruby red lipstick. She is muse to designer John Galliano and is also a fan of Vivienne Westwood.

The US singer lives in fashionable Primrose Hill with her husband Gavin Rossdale.

She played screen icon Jean Harlow in The Aviator, the Martin Scorsese biopic about Howard Hughes.

"One of the main themes that emerged from this year's list is a nostalgia for the days when women really revelled in the art of dressing up and having fun," a Harpers & Queen spokeswoman said.

Second in the list is stripper Dita Von Teese, partner of shock rocker Marilyn Manson. Cate Blanchett is sixth.