Zoolander 2: How to emulate Ben Stiller's pouting, bug-eyed look

What is worth borrowing from Zoolander? How about his presumably lucrative affiliation with the Valentino label, leather bomber jacket, or copious hair gel?

Derek Zoolander dressed in Valentino, autumn/winter 2015

The pouting, bug-eyed, suck-cheekboned "Blue Steel" stare of Derek Zoolander – Ben Stiller's male-model counterpart – has proved omnipresent of late. Not just because the sequel to the 2001 original is released nationwide today, nor because Stiller-as-Zoolander was featured on the cover of US Vogue and walked the catwalk of last winter's Valentino womenswear show (pictured above), but because it's been co-opted as the social-media self-portrait pose of choice for roughly the past half-decade. Eerily prescient.

Is Zoolander the harbinger of fashion's future? Maybe – and that's a sobering thought. I won't make a pun about "sobering" vis-à-vis the Blue Steel Ciroc vodka (1- see gallery above), released to coincide with the film in (what else?) a giant blue bottle.

What else is worth borrowing from Zoolander? How about his presumably lucrative affiliation with the Valentino label? The Roman flagship store plays a prominent role in the film (I won't ruin the flimsy plot), and the label's menswear frequently flurries into the flamboyance a peacock such as Mr Zoolander craves. This leather bomber jacket (2) is a quieter but no less luxurious incarnation.

Under such refined garms, you need a body to match. If nature hasn't endowed you – or if you simply can't be arsed – try the Zoned performance crew neck by Spanx (3). I'd portmanteau it as a "mirdle" – man-girdle, if you will – though it apparently actually helps to tone your torso, rather than just squeezing it into an aesthetically attractive mould (it does that too).

The finishing touch? Hair gel (4). Lots of it. And it's only £3.99!