Nina García

About

Ninotchka “Nina” García (Spanish: [niˈna ɣaɾˈsi.a]; born May 3, 1965) is a Colombian-American fashion journalist, the editor-in-chief of Elle, author, and a judge on the Bravo/Lifetime reality television program Project Runway since its first season.

García was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, the country’s fourth-most populous city on the Caribbean Sea, the daughter of a wealthy importer. She graduated from the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1983 and holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston University. Later, she attended Esmod (École Supérieure de la Mode) in Paris and earned a bachelor’s degree in fashion merchandising in 1992 from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).

Garcia began her career in the fashion industry in the early 1980s. She worked in the public relations department for Perry Ellis and its then-designer, Marc Jacobs.

After leaving Marc Jacobs, García moved to Mirabella, where she worked as Assistant Stylist and Market Editor until taking a position at Elle. She became Fashion Director of Elle in 2000. She left the Fashion Director position in April 2008, becoming Editor-at-Large at the magazine…