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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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  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: summer hosting come rain or shine 

    Seven tastemakers set the scene for a meal to remember 

    Amber Guinness and her husband Matthew Bell prepare a table to eat outside in Tuscany
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Jill Biden, Vogue and the torture of bad timing

    A week is a long time in politics. In the world of monthly publications, it can be an eternity 

    A smiling blonde woman in a white coat dress with the words ‘Vogue’ in capital letters behind her
  • Saturday, 29 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Is quick-fire decision-making always best?

    In a world of infinite choices, rapid thinking has become a superpower

  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: make your escape

    From hiking in Madeira to the female freedivers of Japan’s Mie Prefecture

    A freediver in Ago Bay, Japan
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: life in the fast lane

    Meet the inspirational female founders doing things their way

    Eighteen-year-old French racing driver Lola Lovinfosse in the Charlotte Tilbury Hotlips car, operated by Rodin Motorsport
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Rupert Murdoch
    Marriage à la Rupert Murdoch

    When it comes to love, what cosy webs billionaires do weave

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: an ode to Debo

    In praise of the late Chatsworth châtelaine, a thought-leader lands in Venice – and a big scream for ice-cream

    Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, at Chatsworth in 2003
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The great hospitality gripe list

    Have you got a hotel pet peeve? Let’s talk about it

  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: how to get your viral kicks – from Topjaw to Oaxaca

    Because nothing says personalised like a ‘For You’ page

    Topjaw’s Will Warr (left) and Jesse Burgess in Speedboat Bar, London
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Could sartorial competence help win the election?

    Political success starts with the wardrobe 

  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Luxury goods
    Gucci focused on building ‘sound foundations’, says Kering executive

    Deputy chief executive Francesca Bellettini was tasked last year with turning around flagship brand

    A window display featuring an outfit from the Gucci Lido collection by Gucci’s creative director Sabato De Sarno, at a Gucci on in Via Monte Napoleone in Milan, Italy
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    HTSI
    Watch: Kering deputy CEO Francesca Bellettini in conversation with Jo Ellison

    Join us at the FT’s Business of Luxury summit for Monday’s closing keynote interview

    Kering deputy CEO and president and CEO of Yves Saint Laurent Francesca Bellettini
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: unlock your wanderlust

    Introducing our spring travel special

    A domed seating area by Villa Nubia’s pool at Al Moudira in Luxor, Egypt
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: AI birdwatching, racing old bangers, and artists in love

    This week’s issue fangirls Yves Klein, joins the battle of the underdogs, and turbocharges twitching

    Rotraut and Yves Klein’s wedding in Paris in 1962
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The wisdoms of the longevity wackadoodles

    . . . turn out to make a lot of sense 

    A man wearing glasses, a blue shirt and jacket stands in front of a swirling blue background
  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Game, sex, match — the return of the erotic movie

    It’s time to embrace old-fashioned romantic thrillers again

    A man and a woman lean towards each other as if to kiss
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: a secret art trail, a Scandi silo and a Sinner

    Tennis’s next big sensation serves up a stunner

    Jannik Sinner, photographed for HTSI
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    How to start a conversation

    Even small talk is better than sitting in the silent void

  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI wedding special 2024
    HTSI editor’s letter: big, bold bridal style is back

    How to host a wedding you’ll remember forever

    Stylist Rachel Bakewell at her wedding wearing a Simone Rocha dress
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    FT SeriesThe Brains of Wellbeing + Beauty
    Alejandro Bataller: life on the longevity frontier

    Inside SHA Wellness Clinic, the pioneering retreat with its eyes on a world empire

    Sha Wellness vice-president Alejandro Bataller with HTSI editor Jo Ellison at 1 Warwick
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    FT SeriesThe Brains of Wellbeing + Beauty
    Victoria Beckham: the business of beauty

    The designer on building a brand, beating the odds . . . and why her desert-island product is an eyebrow pencil

    HTSI editor Jo Ellison with Victoria Beckham at 1 Warwick
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI design special
    HTSI editor’s letter: introducing ‘future craft’

    The spring design issue starts here

  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    What the charmless Ripley could teach Bond

    Never remake your heroes merely in a bid for wide appeal

  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast25 min listen
    Design Series: The fashion of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’

    HTSI editor Jo Ellison and US finance reporter and men's style columnist Robert Armstrong join to take on the classic 2006 film

  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: Cillian Murphy, a cult jewel house, and the coolest new suiting

    Meet April’s all-star cast

    Cillian Murphy wears Versace wool tailored coat, £2,310. Burberry silk/wool waistcoat, £690
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