Derek Blasberg

Derek’s father’s varsity jacket, blue narrow shirt A.P.C., orange pants polo Ralph Lauren, and Belmont chronograph watch David Yurman

 

photography by TERRY RICHARDSON
style by MEL OTTENBERG
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM

 

Love him or hate him, when you see DEREK BLASBERG show up at a party in New York, Paris, Istanbul, or Tokyo, you know you’re definitely in the right place. Over the past five years this brilliant, personable young man from Saint Louis, Missouri, has turned himself into the new Bob Colacello, documenting nightlife and high society in writing and photographs. Not only that, he’s showing everyone how much fun he’s having dancing and entertaining — while making us all envious of the way beautiful young women tend to surround him. But what we like most is his vintage/Middle-American/Upper East Side/high fashion/dandy style. With his first book, Classy: Be a Lady Not a…