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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, 16 December, 2023
    HTSI
    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
    Juergen Teller’s nativity

    The German photographer and his wife checked into the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni. Then they made a myth

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

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

    Dennis Okwera outside the new health hub funded and opened by the Lumule Foundation
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    How to win an argument

    The holidays are nearly here. Let the bickering begin

  • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: Ghesquière and the gang

    Celebrating a decade of the designer at Louis Vuitton

    Este, Danielle and Alana Haim wear Louis Vuitton Resort 2022
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    Life & Arts
    ‘The Rest Is . . .’  taking over the world

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

    A podcast studio with presenters Richard Osman and Marina Hyde in front of the logo for their ‘The Rest Is Entertainment’ podcast
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    HTSI
    ‘First, we have fun’: Nicolas Ghesquière on a decade at Louis Vuitton

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

    Nicolas Ghesquière at Le Voltaire, Paris
  • 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
    Life & Arts
    Of Bezos and biceps

    Is the Amazon founder and ‘swole monarch’ a new model of middle-age masculinity?

  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    HTSI
    The very stealthy success of The Row

    An exclusive interview with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

    From left: leather Devitt coat, £11,540, leather Simon gloves, £1,570, and leather Luisa Pump 35 shoes, £1,120. Wool-mix Tavish coat, £3,600, cashmere-flannel Berto trousers, £2,730, leather Soft loafers, £1,250, and leather Idaho XL bag, £4,260. Diane wears cashmere coat, £11,540, cotton poplin Moon shirt, £1,200, silk-mix Erci jumper (worn around neck), £2,080, wool Ednah trousers, £2,170, and leather Grant boots, £1,450. Max wears wool Anders coat, POA, wool Elam top, £1,200, cashmere flannel Berto trousers, £2,730, leather Classic belt, £560, and canvas and leather Sam shoes, £770. Wool Arpa coat, £3,690, microtexture wool/mohair Arpelle dress, £3,930, and leather Enzo shoes, £1,250. Tights, model’s own
  • 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

  • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: it’s the most wonderful issue of the year

    389 present ideas for every person in your life

    The right-hand side of the Wilton diptych, c1395-1399, to be displayed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 10 May 2024 in the NG200 National Treasures exhibition
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Life & Arts
    How common are you?

    Nicky Haslam’s £40 tea towel skewers all things middlebrow, from Wimbledon to the Waleses

    Prince George of Wales, Prince William, Prince of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales, outside Windsor Castle
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHTSI’s holiday gift guide 2023
    What does the HTSI editor want for Christmas?

    Jo Ellison selects her seasonal picks

    Loewe leather Squeeze bag, from £2,950
  • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the A to Z of awesome architecture

    For the biggest and boldest projects, think global

    Inside The Whiteley development in London
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Chandler Bing and the fiction of forever friends

    You can’t curate your friends any more than you can choose your family

    A seated group of thirtysomething people, smiling
  • Saturday, 28 October, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: autumn travel special

    Fresh destinations to fall in love with

    Singer-songwriter Eric Nam gives his guide to Seoul
  • Saturday, 21 October, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: new conscious attitudes

    Social housing, recycled gadgets, crickets for dinner – and the thorny issue of land management

    Alfie Nickerson of Burnt Fen Flowers
  • Friday, 20 October, 2023
    Arts
    Why I believe in Taylor Swift

    As the cinematic instalment of her US tour opened last weekend, audiences got up close and personal like never before

    An elegant woman in a cocktail dress stands on stage
  • Saturday, 14 October, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the autumn 2023 interior design trends to know

    From 9 1/2 Weeks erotic to Merchant Ivory romance

    Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger in 9½ Weeks, 1986
  • Friday, 13 October, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Serge Gainsbourg, David Beckham and the secrets of eternal style

    What their contrasting wardrobes reveal about the art of crafting a look

  • Saturday, 7 October, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: horses for courses

    An exclusive tour of the world’s most successful stud farm, plus maritime fashion and a dispatch from Genoa

    The Juddmonte stallion Bated Breath with his handler Jay Legg
  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Does my bum look visible in this?

    How nudity became the norm

    Women on a runway
  • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: at home with Ralph Lauren

    A smorgasbord of delights, from the king of Americana to a robo chef

    The porch of the Vance Cabin on Ralph Lauren’s Double RL Ranch in Colorado
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