Nina Garcia Named Editor-at-Large for ELLE Magazine

NEW YORK, May. 15 /PRNewswire/ --

NEW YORK, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Roberta Myers, Vice President/Editor-in-Chief, ELLE, announced today that ELLE has entered a new agreement with Nina Garcia who has been named Editor-at-Large through September 1, 2008. Ms. Garcia will remain as the magazine's representative judge on "Project Runway" through the show's fifth season. Ms. Garcia, who has spent 13 years at ELLE, has been Fashion Director for the past 8 years.

"Nina is admired by a large television audience on 'Project Runway' who tune in to see Nina and her fellow judges decide who's in and who's out. She's made a real contribution to the program's success as a top show," Myers said.

Ms. Garcia stated, "I'm happy to continue my association with ELLE while focusing on my role on 'Project Runway.' I'm also working on my second book which will be out this Fall."

About ELLE

ELLE is the largest fashion magazine in the world, with 41 editions on five continents, and is published in the U.S. by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., http://www.hfmus.com/, a part of Lagardere Active, a subsidiary of Lagardere SCA (). It is also the foundation of numerous brand extensions, including ELLE Decor (25 editions), ELLE A Table (five editions),ELLE Accessories (eight editions) and ELLE.com (22 websites). The U.S. edition reaches an audience of 4.9 million readers, who find inELLE style and substance with an independent point of view.