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Monday April 30th, 2012

Elle.com Loses Over Half of Its Editorial Team
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Elle.com Loses Over Half of Its Editorial Team

Major shakeups have gone down on Elle.com‘s editorial side. Everyone’s jumping ship! As a few media outlets have already reported, Keith Pollock, Elle.com‘s editorial director, is leaving to become editor in chief of Du Jour–a new digital and print editorial publication launching in collaboration with Gilt Groupe. What we didn’t know until recently is that he will be bringing Elle.com’s market editor, Sydney Wasserman, and art director Stephanie Jones, with him to his new gig (Jones will be the art director, Wasserman the senior market editor). So that’s about half of Elle.com’s editorial staff right there. And that’s not all…

Britt Aboutaleb, former editor of this site and Elle.com’s fashion news editor, is not only leaving Elle–she’s leaving New York! And fashion! Sort of!

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Published at 6:00 PM

Monday April 23rd, 2012

What’s With All the New Hires at  Love?
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What’s With All the New Hires at Love?

Revered fashion glossy Love is undergoing some changes.

For starters, Editor-in-chief Katie Grand launched her own personal Twitter last week, apart from Love‘s, which we assumed she was behind. Shortly thereafter, she hired herself some company at the top of Love‘s masthead. First, she gave ShowStudio’s Alexander Fury the role of “editor” at the magazine, announcing that he would oversee both print and online. Today, it was announced that Lulu Kennedy, founder of Fashion East, a non-profit that supports emerging designers, would become Love‘s Editor at Large. WWD reports that Kennedy’s first project will be scouting subjects for a Solve Sundsbo-lensed front-of-book portrait feature, for which, based on this tweet, Kennedy will be the first subject. Fury and deputy editor Isaac Lock will interview the subjects.

So what does all of this mean?

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Published at 5:04 PM