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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, 5 July, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: come dine with me

    Richard Christiansen, Zélikha Dinga, James Henry and others host a summer entertaining special – plus Georg Jensen’s silver linings

    Strawberry sorbet and fior di latte gelato served with cigarette wafers. The Murano glasses are by Laguna B
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Life & Arts
    ChatGPT — the last of the great romantics

    Large language models have their limits — but when it comes to writing break-up letters, they are the perfect tool 

    A black-and-white photo taken during filming of a bulky 1950s-style robot with a petite young woman in a short skirt
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    HTSI
    Georg Jensen’s silver linings

    Creative director Paula Gerbase is giving the Danish jewellery and homeware brand a polish. Will you want a piece of it?

    Paula Gerbase in the Georg Jensen silver atelier with silversmith Catherine Hall
  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The politics of joy

    Can we justify lightheartedness at a time of deep uncertainty?

    A group of young women holding wine glasses smile for a selfie on a sunny day
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s most popular stories – from a delicious Dolomites retreat to the greatest white vests
    The best white vests

    From racerback to merino-cashmere blends, nothing simplifies summer dressing like the layering basic 

    Kendall Jenner in Paris in June 2024
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Christian Dior SA
    ‘Quality is key’: Delphine Arnault opens a new chapter at LVMH’s Dior

    The luxury brand’s chief executive is counting on creative director Jonathan Anderson to revive sales in a difficult market

    From left, Delphine Arnault and Jonathan Anderson
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: run away with me ... 

    ... to a Welsh bothy, Jean Cocteau’s Côte d’Azur retreat and Istanbul’s island idyll in our Escape special

    Claerddu Bothy on the Cambrian Way in Wales
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The Bezos merger we all want a piece of

    Some of us may balk at the bling of billionaire wedding plans — but can we just enjoy the distraction?

    A banner with bulbous blue lettering draped over the arched parapet of a graceful bridge; below is a canal and a couple of Venetian gondolas
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: what makes a style classic?

    Pioneering fashion, food and fables

    Nanne Groenewegen wears Louis Vuitton wool reversible oversized coat, £2,850. Ralph Lauren Collection silk charmeuse shirt, £830. Meryll Rogge x Grounds knitted shoes, £446.25. Hat, from a selection at Santa Fe Vintage. Joseph Uyttenhove wears Louis Vuitton wool workwear tailored jacket, £2,670, matching trousers, £1,120, and cotton shirt, £850. Prada leather boots, £1,700. Loro Piana baby cashmere felt hat, £810. Scarf, from a selection at Santa Fe Vintage
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: ballet, Bugattis and brasseries

    A celebration of Jazz Age wonders

    Precious Adams as Bather, with Gareth Haw as The Golfer, in Le Train Bleu
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Breakfast in bath — yes or eurgh?

    Wes Anderson’s latest film exposes a savage societal rift

    A scene from a film, shot from above, of a man in a bath with a breakfast tray across the tub and a bottle of champagne in the bidet to his side
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    LVMH
    Dior picks Anderson as creative director

    Irish designer assumes one of most prestigious jobs in fashion

    Jonathan Anderson appears on the catwalk at the end of the presentation his Womenswear Spring/Summer 2025 collection in Paris
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The beguiling charm of a bedtime phone call

    In an era of endless texting, it’s good to see to see conversation making a comeback

    A 1920s black-and-white film still shows a man in a suit curled up in an armchair and talking on the phone while a woman in a white period ‘flapper’ dress dances behind him
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: Ebon Moss-Bachrach is this year’s big Thing

    The ambivalent charm of the Hollywood anti-hero, Maria Grazia Chiuri’s next act, and a drink with Gen Z

    Ebon Moss-Bachrach wears Junya Watanabe Man x Levi’s coated denim jeans and matching jacket, both POA.  Officine Générale recycled organic cotton T-shirt, €70. Hermès leather and brushed-palladium-finish metal belt, €900. Manolo Blahnik leather shoes, £745. Silk scarf, Ebon’s own, from a selection at 282 Portobello London
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Bill Belichick and the exquisite cringe of the age-gap romance

    The coach looks like he’s having a lot of fun — even if it could be a shortcut to social ruin

    A man in his seventies wearing a red jacket and blue tie stands next to a much younger woman who is wearing a very short cut silver top
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the travel issue 2025

    What do we gain on a journey? Our writers go in search of something more

    Patagonia National Park
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    HTSIHTSI spring travel special 2025
    In Patagonia – another journey to the end of the world

    Fifty years after Bruce Chatwin embarked on his ‘peculiar, dotty’ bestseller, the South American wilderness still calls

    Patagonia National Park in Argentina
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    HTSIHTSI spring travel special 2025
    The world according to Wim Wenders

    The film director is the laureate of emotional landscape. He explains why the city is his muse

    Wim Wenders in Hangzhou
  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: a toast to Sting and Trudie

    Featuring the eternal power couple, top members’ clubs and tiny cocktails

  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Does my personality look big in this?

    Andrea Jenkyns, AOC and the new look of female leadership

  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Thirty-six is the new 60

    And I’m positively old

  • Saturday, 26 April, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: in praise of the tenacious creative

    Grace Wales Bonner’s purpose, William Kentridge’s work ethic, Kirsty Wark’s Glasgow, and Sugen Gopal’s perfect roti

    William Kentridge in his studio at home in Johannesburg
  • Saturday, 26 April, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Make America Pregnant Again

    The Republicans want a ‘baby boom’. And Elon Musk can fertilise us all

    A woman in a red sweater and small bonnet holding a baby wrapped in a blanket
  • Saturday, 19 April, 2025
    Style
    HTSI editor’s letter: the wedding special

    Modern-day elopements, Gillian Tett on why she wore white, engagement rings, tiaras – and more

    Gillian Tett at King’s College, Cambridge
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    InterviewHTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: why design will always look east

    The spring special celebrates the super power of east Asia

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