Katherine Betts in the editor of TIME Style & Design, a special issue published six times a year in the United States and Europe. Betts is also a regular contributor to the weekly print edition of TIME, as well as the Style section of the New York Times. Betts was named editor in 2003.

Previously, Betts was the editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar from June 1999 to June 2001, where she completely redesigned the 134-year-old fashion title. She moved to Bazaar from Vogue, where she was the fashion news director from 1991 to 1999. At Vogue, Betts was responsible for developing and producing all fashion features, including runway reports, designer profiles and popular culture stories. She was editor of many of the magazine’s most popular sections, including “Vogue’s View” and “Vogue’s Index,” a special shopping section that she created in 1995.

Betts was also a reporter for and later the bureau chief of the Paris office of Fairchild Publications from 1988 to 1991. In Paris, while she managed daily trade newspaper Women’s Wear Daily and W and M magazines, she also helped conceive and launch W Europe. From 1986 to 1988, she held various positions including Paris editor of Metropolitan Home and jobs at the International Herald Tribune and European Travel & Life.

Betts was recently named one of the top 10 fashion editors by Forbes, and she has appeared on network and cable television regularly since 1993. She was also the subject of a Lifetime documentary, Putting Baby to Bed: Wife, Mother, and Editor in Chief, about her experience as the youngest editor ever to take over a fashion magazine.

Additionally, Betts is the co-author of Diana Vreeland: Bazaar Years (Universe Publishing, 2001).

A graduate of Princeton University, she resides in New York with her husband and two children.

Show full bio

Hide full bio