NY Times hires FT’s housing/construction reporter

Elizabeth Paton, who has been covering housing and construction for the Financial Times, has been hired by the New York Times to cover fashion in Europe.

Here is the announcement from Stuart Emmrich, editor of the Styles section:

I am very pleased to announce that Elizabeth Paton, currently a reporter at The Financial Times, will soon be joining the Styles reporting staff as its first-ever fulltime European correspondent.

Based in London, Lizzie will play an integral role in our increased coverage of global fashion, both in print and online, making us better able to respond to breaking news, whether it’s a new designer named at a venerable fashion house (or fired by one), yet another acquisition made by the rapidly expanding fashion conglomerates LVMH and Kering, or profiles of emerging talent in the world’s fashion capitals.

Lizzie, a 2009 graduate of Oxford University, has worked at the FT since September 2011, starting out as an assistant editor in the New York bureau, where she devised and launched Luxury 360, the FT.com homepage for creative and commercial coverage of the luxury industry, working with Vanessa Friedman, before bring promoted to the paper’s fashion and luxury correspondent, More recently, she has been working on the news desk in the paper’s London bureau. Previously, Lizzie was the assistant online editor of the Style magazine of the Sunday Times of London.

In addition to reporting to me and Vanessa here in New York, Lizzie will also work closely with our INYT colleagues in London and Paris, particularly Dick Stevenson and Tim Race, as we continue to expand our news-driven coverage of fashion and luxury, wherever the story takes us.

Lizzie will join us in mid-August.