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Awards and Honors
2021 — ASME Winner in Personal Service | “Invasion of Privacy: Marie Claire's Guide to Protecting Yourself Online”
2021 — Deadline Club Winner in Magazine Profile | “The First Year Out”
2019 — ASME Finalist in Personal Service | “Marie Claire's Guide to Having a Baby”
2018 — ASME Cover of the Year Winner in Fashion and Beauty | Emma Stone, September
2017 — Bustle Best Stories by Women Honoree | “These Women Are the Last Thing Standing Between You and Nuclear War”
Marie Claire has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by NewsGuard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
Our Team
Nikki Ogunnaike is the Editor in Chief of Marie Claire. She has previously held roles at Harper's Bazaar, GQ, ELLE, Glamour, InStyle, and Vanity Fair. You may also recognize Nikki from her time as the host of Snapchat’s Online, IRL and IGTV's The Run Through. Based in Brooklyn New York, in her free time Nikki enjoys running half marathons, learning about wine, and watching reality TV without an ounce of shame. You can follow her at @nikkiogun.
A former features director at Cosmopolitan, Andrea Stanley is the Executive Editor at Marie Claire, reporting on politics, people, culture, social trends, physical and mental health, and more.
Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan.
Jenny Hollander is the Digital Director at Marie Claire. A graduate of Leeds University, and a native of London, she moved to New York in 2012 to attend the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was the first intern at Bustle when it launched in 2013 and spent five years building out its news and politics department. In 2018 she joined Marie Claire, where she held the roles of Deputy Digital Editor and Director of Content Strategy before becoming Digital Director. In her spare time, she also writes fiction: her first novel, the thriller EVERYONE WHO CAN FORGIVE ME IS DEAD, was published with Minotaur Books (UK) and Little, Brown (US) in February 2024 and became a USA Today bestseller. She has also written extensively about developmental coordination disorder, or dyspraxia, which she was diagnosed with when she was nine. She is currently working on her second novel.
Noor is the deputy editor at Marie Claire, where she drives stories across politics, power, career, and money in all their modern forms. She was previously the managing editor and the international news editor at The Daily Beast. Her reporting background spans foreign affairs and investigative work, with bylines in The Guardian, TIME, and Foreign Policy, among other outlets.
Hannah Baxter is the Beauty Director at Marie Claire. She has previously held roles at The Zoe Report, Coveteur, and Bust Magazine, covering beauty, wellness, fashion, and lifestyle. Her writing has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Allure, The Cut, Elle, InStyle, Glamour, Air Mail, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Byrdie, Nylon and more. She is also the founder of Anxiety Beer, a bi-monthly newsletter about the intersection of culture and mental health. In her spare time you can catch her reading too many overdue library books, thrifting, or hanging with her hairless cat, Norman. You can find her on Instagram and TikTok @hannahbaxward.
Montse Tanús is the Art Director at Marie Claire. She has previously worked for other fashion and lifestyle publications, including British Vogue, i-D, Refinery29, and Vice in the UK. She began her career at the newspaper El País and Vanity Fair in Spain. When she's not updating a mood board or obsessing over a new color combination, she’s planning a trip, vintage shopping, or looking at pictures of her dogs. You can find her on Instagram at @montse.tanus.
Neha Prakash is Marie Claire's Entertainment Director where she edits, writes, and ideates entertainment, politics, and current event features. She oversees the brand's editorial bookings for print and digital covers as well as video franchises and Marie Claire's flagship event, Power Trip. Since joining the team in early 2020, she's produced entertainment packages about buzzy television shows and films, helped steer culture SEO content, commissioned op-eds from notable writers, and penned widely-shared celebrity profiles and interviews. Prior to Marie Claire, she held editor roles at Brides, Glamour, Mashable, and Condé Nast, where she launched and helmed the Social News Desk. Her pop culture, celebrity, and fashion coverage has appeared on Vanity Fair, GQ, Allure, Teen Vogue, and Architectural Digest. She earned a masters degree from the Columbia School of Journalism in 2012 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 2010. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and fluffy dog, Ghost; she loves matcha lattes, Bollywood movies, and has many hot takes about TV reboots. Follow her @nehapk.
Sara Holzman is the Style Director for Marie Claire where she covers daily fashion content, ranging from the pieces worth investing in to the latest in seasonal trends across the world’s fashion metropolises in New York, Milan, and Paris. Sara also oversees several of Mare Claire’s fashion franchises, including MC Muse, Worth It, What I Wear to Work, and The Essentials. Over her six years with the brand, Sara has reported on the ever-evolving world of fashion—covering both established and emerging designers within the industry. When she’s not penning about fashion, she uncovers the best new travel destinations, hotels, and restaurants to explore around the world. Prior to Marie Claire, Sara has held fashion positions at Lucky and SELF Magazine and was a regular contributor to Equinox’s Furthermore website, where she wrote across their style, wellness, and travel verticals. She holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and currently resides in Manhattan. Follow her along at @sarajonewyork.
Halie LeSavage is the senior fashion editor at Marie Claire. She is an expert on runway trends, celebrity style, and emerging brands. In 8+ years as a journalist, Halie’s reporting has ranged from profiles on insiders like celebrity stylist Molly Dickson to breaking brand collaboration news. She covers events like the Met Gala every year, and gets exclusive insight into red carpet looks through her column, The Close-Up.
Previously, Halie reported at Glamour, Morning Brew, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has been cited as a fashion and beauty expert in The Cut, CNN Underscored, and Reuters. In 2022, she earned the Hearst Spotlight Award for excellence and innovation in fashion journalism. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard College.
Kristin Contino is Marie Claire's Senior Royal and Celebrity editor. She's been covering royalty since 2018—including major moments such as the Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth II’s death and King Charles III's coronation—and places a particular focus on the British Royal Family's style and what it means.
Prior to working at Marie Claire, she wrote about celebrity and royal fashion at Page Six Style and covered royalty from around the world as chief reporter at Royal Central. Kristin has provided expert commentary for outlets including the BBC, Sky News, US Weekly, the Today Show and many others.
Kristin is also the published author of two novels, “The Legacy of Us” and “A House Full of Windsor.” She's passionate about travel, history, horses, and learning everything she can about her favorite city in the world, London.
Sadie Bell is the Senior Culture Editor at Marie Claire, where she edits, writes, and helps to ideate stories across movies, TV, books, and music, from interviews with talent to pop culture features and trend stories. She has a passion for uplifting rising stars, and a special interest in cult-classic movies, emerging arts scenes, and music. She has over eight years of experience covering pop culture and her byline has appeared in Billboard, Interview Magazine, NYLON, PEOPLE, Rolling Stone, Thrillist and other outlets.
Samantha Holender is the Senior Beauty Editor at Marie Claire, where she reports on the best new launches, dives into the science behind skincare, and shares the breakdown on the latest and greatest trends in the beauty space. Prior to joining the team, she worked as Us Weekly’s Beauty and Style Editor, where she stayed on the pulse of pop culture and broke down celebrity beauty routines, hair transformations, and red carpet looks. Her words have also appeared on Popsugar, Makeup.com, Skincare.com, Delish.com, and Philadelphia Wedding. Samantha also serves as a board member for the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). She first joined the organization in 2018, when she worked as an editorial intern at Food Network Magazine and Pioneer Woman Magazine. Samantha has a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. While at GWU, she was a founding member of the school’s HerCampus chapter and served as its President for four years. When she’s not deep in the beauty closet or swatching eyeshadows, you can find her obsessing over Real Housewives and all things Bravo. Keep up with her on Instagram @samholender.
Emma Childs is the fashion features editor at Marie Claire, where she explores the intersection of style and human interest storytelling. She covers viral, zeitgeist-y moments—like TikTok's "Olsen Tuck" and Substack's "Shirt Sandwiches"—and has written hundreds of runway-researched trend reports. Above all, Emma enjoys connecting with real people about style, from picking a designer's brain to speaking with athlete stylists, politicians, and C-suite executives.
Emma previously wrote for The Zoe Report, Editorialist, Elite Daily, and Bustle and studied Fashion Studies and New Media at Fordham University Lincoln Center. When Emma isn't writing about niche fashion discourse on the internet, you'll find her stalking eBay for designer vintage, doing hot yoga, and "psspsspssp"-ing at bodega cats.
Julia Marzovilla is the E-Commerce Editor at Marie Claire, where she covers everything from the latest beauty and fashion launches to celebrity outfits and news. She also creates tons of shopping guides that span every vertical on the site. Prior to joining the team at Marie Claire, Julia was the Trending Fashion and News Writer at StyleCaster, where she wrote about current trends and covered breaking fashion and beauty news. She also contributed stories to sites like NYLON, Fashionista, The Zoe Report, Bustle, InStyle, and Who What Wear on a freelance basis during this time. Her work for those publications sat at the intersection between internet culture and fashion. She has also held previous positions on the social media team Calvin Klein and Hearst Magazines as a fashion closet assistant. Julia has a degree in English with a minor in Journalism from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, where she spent her time holding several positions on the Opinion desk at The Paw, LMU’s award-winning student-run newspaper. She currently lives in New York City. You can find her across the internet at @JuliaMarzovilla.
Siena Gagliano is the Beauty Editor at Marie Claire specializing in features, trend stories, and shopping roundups. In her prior role, she was an editor at Cosmopolitan, focusing on beauty commerce and SEO-driven content. Her work has also appeared in Allure, ELLE, Bustle, and Women’s Health. Curious about the behind-the-scenes magazine life and her go-to beauty picks? Follow her on Instagram at @sienagagliano.
Lauren K. Tappan is the Fashion Editor at Marie Claire, where she writes trend reports, shopping pieces, and celebrity news stories. Through reading Lauren’s work, you’ll discover that she has a penchant for exploring the latest runway-inspired styles and highlighting both emerging and legacy brands.
Prior to Marie Claire, Lauren worked for Harper’s Bazaar and ELLE as a freelance editor with a specific focus on e-commerce. There, she covered seasonal styles and tracked the best products on the market. Looking back even further, Lauren worked for Town & Country, developing a robust portfolio of fashion roundups and designer profiles, while also assisting the editor-in-chief.
Lauren graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in communications and a minor in journalism. While attending Penn, Lauren contributed to the university's fashion magazine, The Walk, where she worked her way up from beauty editor to editor-in-chief. Lauren also interned for Philadelphia Style Magazine and EveryStylishGirl during her time in college.
When she’s not exploring the world of fashion, you can find Lauren sharpening her skills as DJ, discovering new restaurants in New York City (she’s a foodie), and spending quality time with friends and family. Follow her along at @laurenktappan.
Brooke Knappenberger is the Associate Commerce Editor at Marie Claire, where she writes across the board from books and celebrities to fashion and beauty. As a pop culture junkie, Brooke obsessively consumes and writes about the latest movie releases, streaming TV shows, and celebrity scandals. Prior to joining the team, Brooke worked as a Lifestyle Reporter for The Sun US where she covered topics ranging from interior design and cleaning tips to fashion hacks and TikTok trends. She also wrote and edited for the movie and TV news site, Looper.com, and covered the latest celebrity happenings for NickiSwift.com. Brooke has a degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. While attending Mizzou, she got her first taste of entertainment media when she began working as an entertainment reporter for Columbia, Missouri's MUTV, and eventually became head of the entertainment department. During that time, she worked at Vox Magazine as a digital editor and later as a print editor where she covered the town’s city life and food scene.
Brooke is a proud St. Louis native and is currently living in New York City. Outside of work, you can find her either jamming out to Drake, reading a Sarah J. Maas novel, or shamelessly online shopping.
Quinci LeGardye is a Staff Writer at Marie Claire. She currently lives in her hometown of Los Angeles after periods living in New York City and Albuquerque, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology from The University of New Mexico. She began her journalism career covering local and state politics, with an emphasis on mental health in Black communities, in California before pivoting to covering culture and entertainment full-time. In 2021, she joined Marie Claire as a contributing editor, becoming a Staff Editor for the brand in 2024. She contributes day-to-day-content covering television, with a specialty in Korean entertainment, movies, books, and pop culture in general. She has also written features, profiles, recaps, personal essays, and cultural criticism for outlets including Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Polygon, Catapult, and others. When she isn't writing or checking Twitter way too often, you can find her watching the latest K-drama, recommending her favorite shows and films to family and friends, or giving a concert performance in her car.
Meguire Hennes is the fashion staff writer at Marie Claire, where she breaks down the celebrity looks living rent-free in her head (and yours). Whether a star is walking the red carpet or posing on Instagram, Meguire will tell you who they're wearing and why. When she's not gushing about A-listers from J.Law to Rihanna, Meguire also covers breaking industry news.
Previously, Meguire was the fashion news writer at The Zoe Report. She received a bachelor's degree in fashion studies at Montclair State University, and has freelanced at Bustle, Women's Health, Well+Good, and more. You can find her words across the fashion, beauty, health, and wellness verticals, because her Libra moon wouldn't let her settle on one beat. Follow her on Instagram for BTS moments from her Marie Claire era.
Amy Mackelden is a contributing editor at Marie Claire, where she covers celebrity and royal family news. She was the weekend editor at Harper’s BAZAAR for three years, where she covered breaking celebrity and entertainment news, royal stories, fashion, beauty, and politics. Prior to that, she spent a year as the joint weekend editor for Marie Claire, ELLE, and Harper's BAZAAR, and two years as an entertainment writer at Bustle. Her additional bylines include Cosmopolitan, People, HelloGiggles, Biography, Shondaland, Best Products, New Statesman, Heat, xoJane, and The Guardian. Her work has been syndicated by publications including Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Delish, Oprah Daily, Country Living, and Women's Health. Her celebrity interviews include Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Chastain, the cast of Selling Sunset, Emma Thompson, Jessica Alba, and Penn Badgley.
As a woman living with multiple sclerosis, ADHD, anxiety, and PCOS, Amy has written extensively about health and wellness. Her health bylines include Forbes, SingleCare, Healthline, MS Society, MS Trust, ZocDoc, Pillpack, HelloFlo, Greatist, Bezzy, and Byrdie, and she co-edited poetry collection The Emma Press Anthology of Illness.
Editorial Guidelines and Standards
Marie Claire is an independent journalistic outlet committed to the first amendment right of a free press. We follow the guidelines for ethical integrity and transparency set forth by the American Society of Magazine Editors. All stories are independently reported, using only primary and secondary sources wherever possible with proper attribution throughout. Opinion pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of Marie Claire staff and are clearly labeled as such. Features are independently fact-checked by someone who is not a reporter, writer, or editor on the piece. Errors or mistakes are corrected and acknowledged. Products, goods, and services are recommended based on the specific market expertise of our editorial staff. Any conflicts of interest, affiliate revenue partnerships, advertorials, or sponsorships are clearly disclosed.
History
Founded by Jean Prouvost (who also launched Paris Soir and Paris Match), Marie Claire was born twice. It was first published as a weekly in October 1937, where it sold 500,000 copies of its first issue and, in 1939, nearly one million copies on the eve of World War II. With Marcelle Auclair at its head, Marie Claire became the first modern women’s fashion magazine.
Marie Claire was born a second time in October 1954, with the same founder, Jean Prouvost; the same editor, Marcelle Auclair; and the same mission: “to open up the future for women, help them make their own way through changing times...inform them about subjects that are rocking their world, give them a voice to share the challenges they face and those of the changing society they live in."
When Jean Prouvost left Marie Claire’s helm in 1976, Evelyne Prouvost, one of his granddaughters, created Groupe Marie Claire. Evelyne became Chairman of the company, grouping the women-led titles of the Prouvost empire. In 1994, the first American edition of Marie Claire hit newsstands. In 2004, Arnaud de Contades became CEO of Groupe Marie Claire.
Today, Marie Claire is present in 29 markets around the world, including Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, South Africa, and the Middle East, making Marie Claire one of the most widely recognized women’s fashion media brands in the world.
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