Derek Charles Blasberg (born April 22, 1982) is an American writer, socialite, author, and television personality who works in the fashion industry.[1][2] As of 2018, he is the head of fashion and beauty partnerships at YouTube and is a senior staffer at Gagosian.[3]
During college, Blasberg worked at the model agency Elite Model Management writing bios for models. He got the job by befriending a model who lived in his dorm.[9] He worked a similar position for European agency Models 1 during a semester abroad in London.[9]
Blasberg had a part-time position at W magazine during his junior year of college.[10] In his senior year, he began working as an assistant at Vogue magazine and continued working there full time after graduating college.[2][9]
From 2006 to 2010, Blasberg was the Editor at Large of Style.com, where he wrote a column called "The Blasblog."[8][11]
In 2008, Blasberg edited Influence, a fashion and art tome conceived by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.[8]
From 2009 to 2012, he wrote a column called "Fast + Louche" for Interview magazine. Blasberg co-wrote several of the New York City editions of the Louis Vuitton Travel Guides.
In April 2010, Blasberg's debut book, Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady, was published.[8][12] It was a collection of humorous essays about etiquette and was on The New York Times best sellers list for several weeks.[2] In October 2011, Blasberg published a follow-up to Classy called Very Classy: Even More Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady, which was an expanded and updated version of the original.
In 2014, Blasberg worked at the Gagosian Gallery as a senior staffer.[2][13] In this position, Blasberg wrote the "In Conversation" series for Gagosian Quarterly.[14]
Before joining Vanity Fair in 2015, Blasberg was the Editor at Large of Harper's Bazaar.[15] Blasberg was an Editor at Large a V and VMAN. He was the founding U.S. Editor of the London-based arts publication Garage Magazine where he wrote a column called "Emails from the Edge."
In 2015, Blasberg published Harper's Bazaar: Models, a survey of the most important models and iconic images in fashion history, which has a foreword that was written by Karl Lagerfeld.[16]
He was also the host of the popular series "Derek Does Stuff With a Friend", which was one of Conde Nast Entertainment's first franchises.[18]
Since April 2016, Blasberg has been the host of the CNN International show, CNN Style.[19]CNN Style focuses on covering fashion internationally, but also includes art, architecture, and design. CNN Style was created 15 years after the long-running Style with Elsa Klensch.[20][21]
Blasberg lives in New York with his long-time partner, Nick Brown, a venture capitalist. On May 18, 2021, Blasberg and Brown became fathers to twins: a boy named Frederick Noah and a girl named Elizabeth Grace, who were born to a surrogate.[23]
