Derek BlasbergThis witty New York based fashion journalist and author’s first book, Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady, was a New York Times bestseller in 2010. Derek Blasberg followed it up with Very Classy in 2011 and has over 180,000 followers on Twitter. He is often spotted on the party circuit with the Delevingne sisters, Jacquetta Wheeler and Robert Konjic and The Great Gatsby was most definitely written for him.

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Amor Towles FI
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Amor Towles

“Dry witted” investment banker turned bestselling modern-day F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque author Amor Towles is a civilised gent who has “led a life straight from one of his novels.”

Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell

Given they share similarly wild locks, big-haired Malcolm Gladwell can most definitely be described as “the thinking man’s Don King”.