Los Angeles - Calling her a "sheepdog in drag", fashion gadfly Mr Blackwell named Ms Linda Tripp, one of the main players in the Clinton sex scandal, as one of the worst dressed women of 1998.
Mr Blackwell, the no-first-name fashion designer whose annual worst-dressed list has become a Hollywood tradition, told a news conference, "Linda Tripp is a shaggy sheepdog in drag, the `Starr' of her own `Stylegate'."