Lorraine Candy leaves Elle to head up luxury at The Sunday Times

Lorraine Candy, the editor of UK's Elle magazine, has been made luxury content editor at The Sunday Times and editor in chief at the title’s Style magazine.

Owned by News UK, Style magazine claims its circulation reaches the highest earning households, with an income over 150,000 pounds.

Candy has been editor of Elle UK since 2004 and is a former editor of Cosmopolitan. Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens said Candy is joining “in order to increase the power of our luxury fashion and beauty offering”.

Rebekah Brooks, chief executive at News UK, said: “Lorraine is a titan of the fashion industry, an established innovator and a ‘must’ on anyone’s ‘who to know’ list. Throughout her established career, she has developed strong relationships with major players across technology, advertising, fashion and entertainment and I’ve no doubt she will have a huge impact with our customers and readers alike, especially in delivering new digital propositions across the title."

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