Kate Betts is a contributing editor at TIME magazine where she has written about the worlds of style and design since 2003. Betts is also a columnist at The Daily Beast. Until this year she was also the editor of TIME Style & Design, a special issue published six times a year in the United States, Europe and Asia.

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 including shows such as The Charlie Rose Show, The View, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Power Lunch, and NPR’s MarketPlace. She has done regular reporting for CNN, covering fashion shows in New York, Paris, and Milan as well as the Academy Award Shows in Los Angeles. She was 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.

Betts is the author of the book Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style, from Clarkson Potter. A graduate of Princeton University, she resides in New York with her husband and two children.