About Hitha Prabhakar

Hitha Prabhakar is a contributing fashion editor and retail industry expert. As the former style writer for Forbes magazine and Forbes.com, Hitha covered the luxury industry as well as men’s fashion. She has written for People magazine, People.com, ELLE India, Metro Newspapers, Nirvana Women, Inked magazine and Zink magazine.

She has had numerous television appearances as a style expert for Fox Business News, Fox News, CBS, Univision, E! Entertainment television and as the host of the Emmy winning New York based show, Cool in Your Code, which airs on WNBC and WNYC TV

Hitha has been featured in Glamour magazine, Marie Claire, Oprah magazine, Lucky magazine, Gotham, Albuquerque Living, The Daily Mail, Style.com and has been a guest on NPR lending her style knowledge on everything from where to shop to which diamonds will be on the red carpet during the Oscars.

After graduating from Smith College in 1998 (including a year stint at the London School of Economics) with degrees in Philosophy and Economics, she joined Bear Stearns as an analyst. Her corporate experience has given her an edge in the fashion arena, where she was able to closely observe the fashion mistakes corporate men and women perpetually make. Her plans for corporate domination were put on hold when she was asked to be a fashion correspondent for the radio station 102.7 FM in New York City in September of 2003. After she spent a fun filled week backstage with Frederic Fekkai reporting on fashion and beauty trends, she decided to go to pursue her masters degree at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and graduated in 2006. During graduate school Hitha rose through the ranks to be the first national style editor of Metro newspapers.

She continued to build her style knowledge as a stylist and market editor at MTV where she styled numerous vee jays, reality show starlets and celebrities like Samuel L. Jackson, Mario Cantone and musicians like Cheyenne Kimbal, Chris Cornell, Death Cab for Cutie and most recently, the Pussycat Dolls for Fashion Rocks. Hitha continues to act as a personal style consultant for executives and associates at Sony BMG, and Hearst as well as artists on Columbia and Vanguard Records.

In addition to all things style, Hitha’s favorite pastimes are running, biking, yoga hanging out in the beauty section of Duane Reade and walking to the corner deli.