Departures Pulls New Style Director From VogueThe luxury lifestyle magazine is set to widen the scope of its fashion coverage.

[Collection]Departures magazine is bringing in a new leader for its fashion coverage. Alessandra Codinha has been named the magazine’s new style director, starting next week. She’s coming straight from five years at Vogue, where she was most recently the online culture editor, with earlier stints at Harper’s Bazaar and WWD. Codinha succeeds Jason Sheeler, who spent about three years in the role and will continue to contribute to the magazine on a freelance basis, having recently relocated to San Francisco. Jeffries Blackerby, editor in chief since 2017, said Codinha will be focused on the story side of fashion in Departures, but will work closely with fashion director Melissa Martin, who will continue to lead the market side. While the magazine, formerly part of Time Inc. and one of the handful of titles that Meredith acquired and decided to keep, now publishes seven times a year (there are also typically two special design issues) and goes out to only holders of American Express platinum cards, the fashion coverage is set to widen its scope. “So much of the storytelling that we do around fashion is related to a kind of overall lifestyle, to an idea of how it fits into what our audience is

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