x011 HQs Pretty Reckless performs at the Henry Fonda Theater

x179 06-29-2009: Filming Season 3

x010 Leaving Ed’s Birthday Party

x002 Hard Rock Calling 2009 - Day 1

x004 The 11th Annual White Tie and Tiara Ball

x019 Grand Opening Of The Swarovski Crystallized Concept Store

x006 HQs Leaving MTV Studios

x011 Emporio Armani - Milan Fashion Week Menswear S/S 2010

x015 HQs “Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen” Premiere

x009 People - June 2009

x012 HQs K-Swiss Classic Remastered Party

x019 10th Annual NYWIFT’s Designing Women Awards

Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester are on the list. You can vote for them here.

x049 2009 CFDA Fashion Awards

x008 HQs GQ Creative Director Jim Moore’s CFDA Award

x020 Premiere Of HBO’s “True Blood” 2nd Season

x005 11th Annual Young Hollywood Awards - Portraits

x005 Bravo Girl Romania

x003 Bravo Romania

x001 Cool Girl Romania

x007 Cosmopolitan Romania (March 2009)

In our annual salute to the clothes that will help you weather the brisk months ahead, actor Ed Westwick reaches for the pieces that embrace timeless style and construction. Because the best gear shouldn’t last just one season but a lifetime.

*****

On the first-ever episode of the outrageously hyped television sensation Gossip Girl, Ed Westwick’s character, Chuck Bass, bookended a pair of date-rape scenes with a weed reference and the memorable zinger—delivered to the show’s principal, Serena—“Your life is over, slut!”

“Villain is such a harsh word,” Westwick says from a hotel room in Washington, D.C., where he has just attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s hard to imagine what a recently minted 22-year-old television antagonist from England was doing pressing the flesh with Beltway muckrackers. But Westwick, who looks like Jude Law crossed with a pre-psychotropic-meltdown Joaquin Phoenix, assures us in his assured British way that “everyone who is anyone was there.”

If that makes Westwick sound like a bit of a dick, surrender now—it’s part of his appeal. Just ask Gossip Girl’s freakishly wide-ranging demographic of religious watchers, many of whom are as entertained by the incestuous nature of the cast as by the show itself. Westwick dates co-star Jessica Szohr (they played kissy face at our shoot) and is roommates (cute!) with Chace Crawford. When pushed to dish, Westwick minimizes the thin line between work and play, and fair enough. You’d date a co-worker if she looked like Jessica Szohr.

In our annual salute to the clothes that will help you weather the brisk months ahead, actor Ed Westwick reaches for the pieces that embrace timeless style and construction. Because the best gear shouldn’t last just one season but a lifetime.

Still, is there a downside to all that Gossip glare? What happens when TV’s latest prep-school bad boy tours Arlington Cemetery with his real-life parents? “Every time the tram would stop, these girls would come up, giggle, then run off,” Westwick says. “You feel like the kid in school that everyone’s laughing at.”—will welch

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Choice Movie: Romance
Australia
Confessions of a Shopaholic
He’s Just Not That Into You
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (Blake Lively)
Twilight

Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller
Drag Me to Hell
Friday the 13th
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (Chace Crawford)
Quarantine
The Uninvited

Music Album Soundtrack
Twilight
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Jonas Brothers’ 3D Concert Experience
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Gossip Girl

TV Show: Drama
90210
Gossip Girl
Grey’s Anatomy
The Secret Life of The American Teenager
House

TV Actor: Drama
Chace Crawford- Gossip Girl
Dustin Milligan- 90210
Ken Baumann-The Secret Life of The American Teenager
Joshua Jackson-Fringe
Penn Badgley- Gossip Girl

TV Actress: Drama
Blake Lively- Gossip Girl
Leighton Meester- Gossip Girl
Minka Kelly- Friday Night Lights
Shailene Woodley-The Secret Life of The American Teenager
Olivia Wilde - House

TV: Villain
Michael Rosenbaum - Smallville
Vanessa Williams- Ugly Betty
Zachary Quinto - Heroe
Ed Westwick- Gossip Girl
Spencer Pratt- The Hills

Choice Male Hottie
Jonas Brothers
Zac Efron
Chace Crawford
Taylor Kitsch
Robert Pattinson

Choice Female Hottie
Miley Cyrus
Megan Fox
Vanessa Hudgens
Beyoncé Knowles
Blake Lively

TV Parental Unit
Molly Ringwald & Mark Derwin- The Secret Life of The American Teenager
Billy Ray Cyrus- Hannah Montana
Rob Estes & Lori Loughlin- 90210
Matthew Settle- Gossip Girl
Tony Plana- Ugly Betty