Media People: Nina Garcia of Elle MagazineA year into leading Elle, Garcia spoke to WWD about print's place, celebrities interviewing themselves and the surprise hit "Project Runway."

[Collection]NEW YORK — It’s hot in Nina Garcia’s office. It’s hot outside, too, being the end of August in New York, but for some reason the cool air pumping freely through the rest of Hearst Tower is not making its way into Garcia’s relatively new office on the 24th floor. A pair of large, ceramic, red lips sitting in one wall-length window look hot to the touch. She’s concerned her blown out and expertly highlighted hair is flat — it’s not — and there are photos to be taken, a video to shoot. But, she smooths her Prada dress and carries on — 30 years in magazine publishing and nearly 20 in television have probably prepared her for worse than hair that doesn’t meet her expectations. But details do seem important to Garcia, who a year ago became editor in chief of Elle, where she spent a major part of her career before joining “Project Runway” and then becoming creative director of Marie Claire. A short unboxing video made to promote Elle’s September issue, Garcia’s first, on her Instagram isn’t exactly what she wanted. The box holding the magazine is “not an Elle box,” the pink ribbon is a little tacky, even if

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