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Jo Ellison

Deputy editor, FT Weekend & HTSI editor

Jo Ellison is the FT’s HTSI editor. She was educated at Edinburgh University where she read history. Prior to joining the FT, in August 2014, she was the features director of British Vogue. Her column appears on the Life & Arts pages.
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  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
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    HTSI editor’s letter: it’s OK to look frazzled this spring

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    As an emblem of modern Britain, the ailing King’s wife is a terrific fit

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    A jewellery icon turns 100, plus unlikely friendships and AI sommeliers

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  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
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    Culture chat: Is ‘Poor Things’ a feminist film?

    We discuss Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film featuring Emma Stone, with arts editor Jan Dalley and HTSI editor Jo Ellison

  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
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    Plus Andrew Cranston and Lorna Robertson, Cornelia Lauf’s Italian idyll and the rebirth of the carnation

    Designer Victoria Beckham
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    Victoria Beckham, in profit, in control and in a league of her own

    As she closes a ‘fantastic year’, the designer talks fragrance, football and finally climbing out of the red

    Victoria Beckham wears Valentino compact cotton poplin belted jacket, £2,450, matching shirt, £1,380, and matching miniskirt, £780
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
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    Amy Winehouse and the bankruptcy of the biopic

    The fascination with her life tells a broader story about public culpability for her untimely death

  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
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    Contactless devices have helped service charges go stratospheric. But are the right people reaping the rewards?

  • Saturday, 6 January, 2024
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    HTSI editor’s letter: how to feel good in 2024

    It’s all about sex, sneakers – and shag-pile carpets

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  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
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    The pure poetry of the shipping forecast

    How a nightly dispatch for sailors became a beloved fixture for landlubbers

    A lighthouse glimpsed behind a huge wave
  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
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    HTSI editor’s letter: stories that bring us together

    From tree-decorating to toys – and our own take on spin the bottle

    Sophia Loren with a tinsel-strewn tree at her villa in Rome in December 1971
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Forget Santa, Hugh Grant is the face of Christmas

    The actor has been through an Ebenezer-style redemption story — and everyone loves a Scrooge

  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    HTSI
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    The German photographer and his wife checked into the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni. Then they made a myth

  • Saturday, 9 December, 2023
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    HTSI editor’s letter: how to give it this winter

    From Dennis Okwera’s Lumule Foundation to the grandes dames of New York philanthropy

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    The holidays are nearly here. Let the bickering begin

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    Gary Lineker’s podcasting empire is expanding — but how much banter can we handle?

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    HTSI
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    On his 10th anniversary at the French luxury house, the designer gathers a unique gang to celebrate

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  • Saturday, 25 November, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: are you ready to party?

    Dinner-date darlings, hosts with more than most, and dresses to dance in. Welcome to the HTSI celebration issue

    Penelope Ternes wears Gucci chiffon crepe evening dress, £6,000. Simon Azoulay gold-painted PVC metal-mesh and gold mirror earrings, €250. Schiaparelli leather Anatomy Jewelry bag with golden brass details, €6,900. Manolo Blahnik suede Sahsia shoes, £625
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
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    Is the Amazon founder and ‘swole monarch’ a new model of middle-age masculinity?

  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
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    An exclusive interview with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

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  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the big noise about quiet luxury

    Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on The Row, monks who make soaps, a trip to Laos, and more

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