Sam Peters, Senior Fashion and Luxury Commerce Editor, Hearst Magazines

Sam Peters is the Senior Fashion & Luxury Commerce Editor at Hearst Magazines, where she writes, edits, and helps guide commerce content strategy for Hearst’s network of fashion and luxury titles—including Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Esquire, Town & Country, Veranda, and ELLE Decor. She is a graduate of Boston University and has over seven years of experience in fashion and lifestyle journalism. She has reported on everything from pioneering beauty brands to the buzziest home decor trends and the fashion industry’s brightest emerging talents. Over the years, she has tested hundreds of products and interviewed dozens of leading experts (including from ELLE’s beauty advisory board, which she developed and co-launched this year) to provide readers with some of the most thoroughly vetted products on the market. Her work has previously appeared in Women’s Wear Daily, Footwear News, Real Simple, and PopSugar, to name a few publications.