DEREK BLASBERG

Derek! The indisputable leader of the gang. He’s the boss, he’s a pip, he’s the championship. He’s the most tip top, Derek.

1: Listen up! You love music as much as we do. Name 10 great tunes on your iPod now.

1. Fancy by Reba McEntire

2. Crazy in Love by Beyoncé

3. The Look of Love by Dusty Springfield

4. Cheap and Cheerful by The Kills

5. A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash

6. California Love by 2Pac

7. How Many Licks? by Lil’ Kim

8. Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce

9. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by Bette Midler

10. All songs from all three High School Musical films

2: We love TV/film/theatre! What are your 10 most fabulous things to watch?

 1. Real Housewives of… (I’ll watch any of them)

 2. Mob Wives

 3. Anything on the nature channel to do with elephants

 4. Anything on the History Channel to do with ancient Egypt

 5. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

 6. Chelsea Lately

 7. Momma’s Family

 8. Roseanne reruns

 9. The Daily Show

10. Friday Night Lights, the best show on television, which was tragically cancelled this season

3: What would we do without them? What are your 10 lovely words? Food, sex and money are ours

1. “The jig is up”

2. “That’s what she said”

3. “Don’t get it twisted”

4. “Oh no she didn’t”

5. “Yo Momma”

6. “Why pay less?”

7. “It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean”

8. “Know who’s in the zoo”

9. “This isn’t my first time at the rodeo”

10. “Jain” (which is short for “janius”, the Australian pronunciation for genius.)

4: Yum yum. What 10 things do you like to eat? What dishes, desserts, savouries, sweets?

1. Fried potatoes

2. Fried fish

3. Fried mozzarella

4. Fried chicken

5. Fried pickles

6. Raw chocolate chip cookie dough

7. Rib-eye steak from The Wolseley, London

8. Cheeseburgers from Lucky Strike, New York

9. Late-night sliders from The Ritz, Paris

10. Anything from The Pasta House, St Louis

5: L.O.V.E. What 10 things do you L.O.V.E? We work in fashion, remember, we love everything…

1. Monogrammed pyjamas

2. Missoni cardigans

3. Anything from Ralph Lauren

4. Hermès ashtrays, even though I quit smoking

5. Vintage shopping in Missouri (where the stuff isn’t picked over and overpriced)

6. Layering weather

7. Personalised stationery and handwritten notes

8. Making lists

9. The New York City subway

10. Dachshunds, especially mine, who is called Monster

6: H.A.T.E. What 10 things do you H.A.T.E? We work in fashion, remember, we hate everything…

1. People who work at airports and lose my luggage and are lazy, stupid and inefficient

2. Being early

3. Being late

4. Liars

5. When publicists send ridiculous press releases over and over about how someone who doesn’t matter was wearing a brand I’ve never heard of

6. Lines

7. Paying my taxes

8. Paying my rent

9. Self-important assholes

10. People who anonymously say unkind things about other people on the internet

7: The silver screen: we know you’d love to see us on it (actually, they should make a biopic of our lives, even though it wouldn’t get past the censor), but until we get our close-up, what are your 10 favourite flicks?

1. Mean Girls

2. 10 Things I Hate About You

3. Clueless

4. Can’t Hardly Wait

5. Not Another Teen Movie

6. Dead Poets Society

7. Rebel Without a Cause

8. Heathers

9. Election

10. Really, I’ll watch anything set in an expensive-looking California high school where there are only token minorities and everyone is outrageously handsome/gorgeous and drive expensive cars. BONUS if they do a choreographed dance at the prom finale.

8: Un-put-downable! What 10 reads couldn’t you live without? 10 magazine,

of course…

1. Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

4. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

5. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

6. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

7. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

8. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

9. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

10. Classy by Derek Blasberg (can I say that and not sound like a douchebag?)

9: Such inspiration! Who are your 10 heroes? Superman, Mother Teresa, God?

1. Brad Pitt (we’re both from nice boys from Missouri, and we look so alike)

2. Oscar Wilde

3. Mapplethorpe

4. Brando

5. Bowie

6. Paul Newman

7. James Dean

8. Graydon Carter

9. Tom Ford

10. Bill Blasberg

10: Here, there, everywhere: Where are your 10 favourite places? What bus

stop, what view, what beach?

1. Paris, France, for the culture

2. New York, New York, for inspiration

3. San Francisco, California, for stereotypes

4. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the beaches

5. Dallas, Texas, for the hairspray

6. Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, for the realness

7. Greenwich, Connecticut, for the unrealness

8. Los Angeles, California, for the plastic surgery

9. Moscow, Russia, for the drinking

10. London, England, for my friends

 by Derek Blasberg