Nina Garcia
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Nina Garcia is the editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of ELLE, the number one fashion media brand in the world, with 45 international editions and a global readership of 175+ million. Nina is the first Latina to lead a major American fashion title and has spent 20+ years in the fashion industry. Building on ELLE’s history of excellence and inclusion, Nina has extended the brand’s fashion and cultural coverage across new platforms, and since taking the helm in September 2017, ELLE’s footprint has never been larger.
During her tenure, ELLE has been an ASME Award finalist for general excellence, lifestyle photographs, and essays and criticism. Nina’s impactful covers, her focus on uplifting Latin American voices and commitment to championing social change have earned her a 2024 Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications, USA
Today’s Women of the Year in 2023 and the CFDA’s Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Sheppard in 2021. For ELLE’s groundbreaking March 2021 cover featuring FKA Twigs ,
Nina received WomanKind’s Phoenix Woman of the Year in Media Award for bringing attention to intimate partner violence. ELLE was also named Adweek’s Hottest Fashion Magazine in 2019 and The Daily Front Row’s Magazine of the Year in 2023 and 2018.
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, Nina is a graduate of Boston University and FIT. She began her career at Mirabella and served as fashion director of ELLE from 2000 to 2008, after holding other roles at the title since 1995. She was the creative director of Marie Claire before returning to ELLE in 2017.
Nina has been a judge on the Peabody Award-winning Project Runway since it launched in 2004. She is the author of four books on personal style and has appeared as a style expert on Good Morning America , Today , The View , and more. In 2017 and 2012, Nina also hosted the red carpet for ABC’s Oscar telecast. Her respected authority
in the industry earned her Fashion Group International’s Oracle Award in 2010.
After undergoing a preventative double mastectomy in 2019, which she shared in a moving op-ed on ELLE.com , Nina joined the board of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) and is involved with The Basser Center for BRCA Research and the Alliance in Reconstructive Surgery Foundation. She also serves on the board of Village
Roadshow Entertainment Group, the CFDA, Fashion Institute of Technology and is on the advisory board for Fashion Trust Arabia. Nina lives in New York with her husband and their two sons.
