LOS ANGELES: British actress Kate Winslet lead the pack of People magazine's 10 best-dressed women of 2009, with US first lady Michelle Obama chosen for "best accessible glamour".

Although the list, released on Wednesday, does not have numerical ranking, Winslet, 33, who won an Oscar in February for playing a dour Nazi in The Reader, was deemed to be the best-dressed woman on the red carpet on 2009 "with her unique brand of sexy sophistication, modern Hollywood glamour and those enviable curves."

People named Reese Witherspoon as having the "best short dresses," High School Musical actress Vanessa Hudgens as best hippie chic, and Freida Pinto, the Indian star of Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, for having the best use of color.