Best known as a judge on Project Runway, Garcia is the fashion director at Marie Claire.

Colombia native Garcia started college at Boston University before transferring to FIT, where she initially planned to pursue a career as a fashion designer. After graduating, Garcia took a job in the PR department at Perry Ellis (back when Marc Jacobs was the label's creative director); she later moved to Mirabella as an assistant stylist and market editor. In 2000, Garcia was named fashion director at Elle.

Although she'd been known in the fashion biz for years, it wasn't until she landed on Project Runway alongside Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, and Michael Kors that Garcia became a household name. Garcia quickly cashed in on her newfound quasi-celebrity: She published the requisite book in 2007, The Little Black Book of Style and appeared in a series of ads for Blackberry. But Garcia's tenure as Elle's fashion director came to an end in 2008. Following months of tension with Joe Zee, the mag's new creative director, Garcia was elbowed out by editor-in-chief Robbie Myers in April. The separation wasn't total, though: Garcia needed to maintain her Elle affiliation to in order to return to Project Runway for its fifth season-and Elle hadn't exactly been hurt by all the free publicity-so Garcia remained at the mag as its editor-at-large until September 2008. Garcia has since started working as the fashion director at the second-tier fashion title Marie Claire-a job that guarantees she stays on Runway since Marie Claire replaced Elle as the show's official magazine sponsor as part of its move from Bravo to Lifetime.

Garcia is married to David Conrod, a senior managing director at Guggenheim Capital. They had their first child, Lucas, in March 2007. [Image via Getty]