After picking up her first magazine, Elise Loehnen knew exactly what she wanted to do for a living. She often passed the days in her small Montana town by cutting out the pages of her favorite magazines and creating collages — especially with the well-known Neiman Marcus ads. But after graduating from Yale and realizing it would be difficult to break into a notoriously hard-to-enter industry, Elise took a job working with a costume designer in New York City. Around this time, a friend of a friend of her brother's was looking for an assistant to help traffic samples at Lucky magazine. All of the sudden, Elise was freelancing for the very company that had rejected every internship application she’d sent in.
Elise quickly turned her contract freelancing gig into a full-time position and after a decade at the magazine, she had worked all the way up the masthead to editor-at-large. In this position she traveled around the world, scouting all things fashionable and even had recurring appearances on "The Today Show.” In 2011, Elise left the fashion glossy for Conde Nast Traveler before crossing the country to Los Angeles to become the editor-in-chief of Beso.com, a lifestyle-centric shopping search engine with a bevy of content, stylish contributors and highly curated picks that makes the site a bona fide one-stop shopping destination.
In addition to her role as editor-in-chief, Elise takes on envious freelancing projects, like co-writing "Lauren Conrad Style.” Her newest full-time role is that of Mom to her recently born, cute-as-a-Gerber-baby son.