Derek C. Blasberg is a fashion editor, curator, and best-selling author. Born and raised in St Louis, Missouri, Derek attended New York University and graduated in 2004 with two degrees, Journalism and Dramatic Literature. His first job was as an assistant at Vogue. In his career, he was the first ever Head of Fashion & Beauty at YouTube and the youngest ever Editor-At-Large of Harper’s Bazaar. He was also the host of a revamped “CNN Style” on CNN International and Vanity Fair’s Man on the Street. His writing has appeared in Vogue, Elle, Interview, W, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the London Sunday Times.
Derek is the author of a 2010 collection of humorous essays about etiquette, ‘Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady,’ which was translated into several languages and published in Asia, South America and Europe. He published a sequel, ‘Very Classy: Even More Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady,’ in 2012. In 2015, he published ‘Bazaar: Models,’ a survey of the most influential faces in fashion history. Derek has been a senior staffer of the Gagosian Gallery since 2014 and is currently the Executive Editor of Gagosian Quarterly. He was the Media and Culture Consultant on all four seasons of HBO’s ‘Succession.’ In 2023, he collaborated with the Richard Avedon Foundation as a curator on a record-breaking exhibition called ‘Avedon 100,’ which was devoted to the photographer’s centenary. He lives on New York’s Upper East Side with his partner, Nick, and two children, Grace and Noah.