Inside Derek Blasberg’s Plans for YouTube | Inside Fashion
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The Business of Fashion
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week on Inside Fashion, the editor discusses his long career in fashion and the moves he’s making in his new role as head of fashion partnerships at YouTube.
In this episode, Derek recounts his early days at Vogue US, where he wrote the captions for the cover shoot of the February 2005 issue, starring Melania Trump. To view the cover image click here: https://bit.ly/2NPh6xF
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Inside Fashion is brought to you by NetSuite, which empowers fashion companies to deliver a strong omnichannel customer experience while streamlining back-end operations. |
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| 0:20.9 | I was not going to move to New York to be a supermodel, |
| 0:23.8 | so I knew what was going to get me out was probably a scholarship. |
| 0:27.6 | What was it like for you as a 19-year-old walking into this world? |
| 0:31.5 | It really felt like I had found what I was going to do for the rest of my life. |
| 0:35.5 | In a way, your special sauce, at least from my perspective, |
| 0:39.3 | is that not only are you on the inside, |
| 0:41.3 | you have built trusting relationships with all these people. |
| 0:45.3 | The fact that I have a seat at these shows |
| 0:47.3 | is for me, mind-boggling. |
| 0:50.3 | So when I enter these shows or these events or this world, |
| 0:53.3 | there's not a shred of bitterness, there's not a shred of jadedness. |
| 0:56.0 | Do you help to facilitate the relationship between YouTube and the fashion industry? |
| 1:01.0 | Yes. What I would like to do is use my seat to provide perspective to anyone who's interested in fashion. |
| 1:08.0 | I think one thing that YouTube has proven is that big budgets don't |
| 1:12.5 | immediately respond with great content. So the idea that you need to spend a lot of money to get |
| 1:18.6 | a lot of eyeballs, I think is inaccurate. Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO. Welcome to |
| 1:27.0 | Inside Fashion on the Bof podcast. |
| 1:29.4 | This week, I sit down with the one and only Derek Blazberg. |
| 1:33.9 | Now, many of you might know Derek is a man about fashion, |
| 1:37.7 | hanging out with the It Girls and celebrities, |
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