Valerie Toranian (born 1962) is a French journalist and the editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Elle in France.

She is the head of the Elle Foundation in France and the general manager of the Revue des deux Mondes.

Toranian was born in Suresnes, Paris, to a French mother from Normandy and an Armenian father.

[1] In the same year, she released a novel titled Pour en Finir avec la Femme (English: To Do Away with the Woman), which explores issues concerning feminism.

[1] In December 2014, Toranian became the general director of the Revue des deux Mondes, a French-language monthly literary magazine.