The following feature is GQ's archive best-dressed list for 2018. Our most recent style ranking is The 50 best-dressed men of 2020

As you might expect, there's a great deal of conversational throw down on British GQ's editorial shop floor. When it comes to debate, and encouraging dissident voices to clash, challenge and hold forth with strong, intelligent opinion, I like to think I am pretty democratic. (So long as the team knows the Editor is always right.) It's all moderately civil, you understand, although not that one time when luxury Italian brand Brioni enlisted Metallica for their advertising campaign - people really lost minds over that. Here are just some of things I overheard while putting GQ's annual Best-Dressed Men list together: "Seriously, we have reached peak rollneck"; "Who, apart from Bill, would pay $17.8 million for Paul Newman's original Rolex Daytona?"; "Yes, I know who Blondey McCoy is, but what does he do exactly?"; "Just because it has doodles on it doesn't make it cool, Jonathan"; "Can you smoke patchouli?" You get the idea. Conversation is, generally, a cross between a TED Talk greenroom and a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" with Malcom Gladwell and Elon Musk. But we do take style incredibly seriously. And why not? You do, too. Of all the arguments that rage on the subject, the one that generates the greatest number of accusatory fingers pointed is who we will hail as Britain's Best-Dressed Man. Should it be Skepta? A man who has done more for brooch wearers in 2017 than the Queen. Or what about Rafferty Law, Jude's son, a man who's fast become a Talented Mr Ripley for Gen Y-ers - just with more skateboard. In the end, there could only be one winner: huge congratulations to British actor Matt Smith. A more original winner you're unlikely to meet. You might not agree with our choice. You might think we picked Mr Smith so we could proclaim "Crowned!" (get it?) on the cover of this January double issue. But then you'd be wrong. After all, were you not listening before? The Editor's decision is final.

Dylan Jones Editor-In-Chief