Vice’s Garage Magazine to Grow Fashion Coverage With New Roles

Garage magazine is looking to grow its fashion coverage with some new editorial positions. The Vice Media property founded by Dasha Zhukova has hired its first features director in Laia Garcia. She joins from The Wing, the women’s club, where she was a deputy editor for its internal magazine No Man’s Land and previously had stints at Refinery29 and the now defunct Lenny Letter, the Hearst-operated feminist newsletter started by Lena Dunham and producer Jenni Konner. Garcia said she’s looking to “expand the Garage universe” in her new role and that she plans to “continue to foster the innovation and diversity that they’re loved for.” Garage has also promoted Gabriella Karefa-Johnson to be the new fashion director, a role that’s been vacant since the start of 2018 when Phoebe Arnold left for a position with Elle U.K. Karefa-Johnson has been with Garage since 2017 and previously worked as its style director. She will now be leading the fashion team and related projects at the magazine. She said Garage is working to “redefine what fashion can look like, at a time when the industry is primed for something entirely new.” As for the changes to Garage’s small staff, editor in chief Mark Guiducci said it

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