Derek Blasberg Is Going to Get It

According to Fashionista.com, an editor over at Jezebel received a tip that fashion writer Derek Blasberg asked YSL to pay him $2,500 to cover a party for Style.com, where he’s Editor-at-Large (usually a title that comes with a retainer.)

According to Fashionista sources, Style.com’s freelancers receive, on average, around $100 for covering a party (and $25 for regular posts), but we’re assuming Blasberg’s retainer affords him a bit more. He is a fairly big name, after all, with a recently-published book and steady gigs with Harper’s Bazaar and V.

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began cracking down on "blogger gifts" with a set of guidelines, stating that bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service. And while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement.

In short, Derek Blasberg might be in some deep poo.

Amusements

I guess Derek Blasberg is living the secret.

Ingredients for those at home: Mix an attitude of gratitude with knowing exactly what you want and you've got a attractive magnet force strapped to your ass, catapulting you to a social stratosphere where Burberry hooks you up with loafers and Barbara Bush Jr toasts you at an event in Dallas.

Eric Wilson of New York Times sums it up: "Derek Blasberg reports on the socially important while becoming, it seems, one of them."



Chloë Sevigny and a few other notable socials were hosts of a party at Barneys last week for his book, Classy. I cracked up laughing when I read that André Balazs complimented Mr. Blasberg on his book by saying, “I love the paper stock.” Was he hating on Blasberg or was he masking the fact that he thought the book was stupid?

But I guess it was essentially a compliment.

Which I guess is what Blasberg is all about--finding the hotness in something that is not. "He won’t write anything bad about anyone, which helps to explain why so many companies are eager to court his favor," reports Wilson.

“It would be easier to write that all the girls were smoking in the bathroom, or to say that everyone was bored or social climbing,” Blasberg tells Wilson. “But I don’t think anyone wins from those kinds of stories.”

whatever, dude.