Neena Haridas

Neena Haridas is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Indian edition of the French haute couture magazine L'Officiel. She is an Indian journalist known for being the Editor of the Indian edition of the international beauty and fashion magazine Marie Claire from 2010 to 2013. Before becoming the editor in 2010, she worked at Andpersand lifestyle magazine, Estetica, the international beauty and hair luxury magazine, and conceptualised in-flight magazine called Spice Route. Before that, she worked at Business Standard, The Pioneer, The Telegraph and HT City, and she also worked as a features editor at News X Channel. After her editorship with Marie Claire ended she worked as Editorial Director at Blouin Artinfo in New York. Her views about fashion have been quoted in the media. For example, she believes that fashion should be ethical and sustainable and not just for elites but for the masses, that the general public should take fashion more seriously, and that the fashion industry should be more active towards influencing future styles rather than merely reporting what people have been wearing. In 2011, she criticized a decision by Vogue magazine to employ fashion models younger than eighteen years old. She interviewed Paris Hilton and described her as "down-to-earth" and noted that Hilton loves Indian fashion designers. Haridas is married and lives in Gurgaon. In 2017 Neena Haridas has also been quoted in the bestseller book by Myra Macdonald Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War published by Hurst Publishers for her reportage on the infamous hijack of IC 814 flight from Nepal to New Delhi.