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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, 1 November, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: reinvent your life, your home – and your lunchbox

    Our autumn property special showcases masters of transformation, from Gabriel Chipperfield to Colman Domingo

    Colman Domingo wears Brunello Cucinelli leather and shearling jacket, £9,200, cotton shirt, £620, and wool flannel trousers, £860. Dolce & Gabbana leather Derby shoes, £925
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The step-count conundrum

    Just how many really count?

    A person with dark nail polish taps their smartwatch during a workout.
  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: should I tell you about my favourite holiday spots?

    The HTSI autumn travel issue takes you to our top getaways  

    Conie Vallese in Rome, styled by Isabelle Kountoure
  • Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
    InterviewFashion
    Kim Jones is betting big on Asia

    After 15 years at LVMH, the English designer is working for Chinese coat maker Bosideng and has partnered on a car with Avatr. Why?

    Kim Jones stands in a modern corridor with glass walls, wearing a black hoodie, tan trousers, and white sneakers.
  • Saturday, 18 October, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: unleash your inner environmental activist

    The wisdoms of Jane Goodall direct our annual sustainability issue  

    Goodall in the Bournemouth National Science Society’s museum, 2025
  • Saturday, 18 October, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Enter the season of the witch

    We’re all nasty women now

    Jessie Buckley lies curled up in a hollow log on a forest floor, looking towards the camera, in a scene from “Hamnet”
  • Saturday, 11 October, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: do you want to play house with me?

    India Mahdavi, Carsten Höller, Kelly Wearstler, Gustaf Westman, Berry Dijkstra and Maye Ruiz are having serious fun with interiors

    The entrance hall of India Mahdavi’s home in Arles
  • Saturday, 11 October, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Beware the forever 35-year-old face

    In a ‘golden age’ of surgery, we’re all in danger of becoming freaks

  • Saturday, 4 October, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: feeling the love with Olivia Dean

    The singer is just one of the innovative tastemakers featured in this issue

    Olivia Dean wears Dior embroidered cotton T-shirt, £295. Cartier gold and steel Santos de Cartier watch, £9,100, and gold Love ring, £1,860
  • Saturday, 27 September, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: introducing our heroes and villains special

    Starring Kirsten Dunst, Sofia Coppola, Matt Smith, Nia DaCosta, Celine Song, Sedrick Chisom, Enji, Duval Timothy and many more

    Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst on set at Airelles Le Grand Contrôle hotel
  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
    FT SeriesThe HTSI autumn arts special: heroes and villains
    Kirsten Dunst in conversation with Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m not shy!’

    The actor and director – who also photographs Dunst – reminisce about 25 years of film and friendship in Versailles

    Kirsten Dunst photographed on a bed at Le Grand Contrôle hotel
  • Saturday, 20 September, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: in search of the perfect gentleman

    Mourning Robert Redford – and the meaning of elegance today

    Robert Redford in a 1969 portrait
  • Friday, 19 September, 2025
    HTSIHow to look like a gentleman this autumn
    Meet Haider Ackermann, the chicest man in fashion

    Power dressing isn’t for now, says the new artistic director at Tom Ford. It’s all about elegant discretion

    Haider Ackermann
  • Saturday, 13 September, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: what’s in style this season?

    Ultra-femininity, boobs, brilliant design and belts

    Actor Fiona Shaw wears Simone Rocha
  • Thursday, 11 September, 2025
    HTSI
    The kind designs of Peter Copping’s Lanvin

    The brand’s artistic director, an industry stalwart, is making flattering luxury to love. Is it enough?

    Peter Copping and models wearing Lanvin in Paris
  • Saturday, 6 September, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: Adwoa Aboah, the benefits of stress and a tribute to Armani

    A little pressure isn’t always a bad thing

    Adwoa Aboah wears Ferragamo wool blazer, £2,645, wool cardigan, £960, and wool stretch tailored trousers, £1,265
  • Saturday, 6 September, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Vogue, the court of Condé Nast and the future of the glossy magazine

    It’s hard to imagine how any kind of succession will work while so much control remains in one hand

  • Saturday, 30 August, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: all hail Giorgio Armani

    Celebrating 50 years of the king of fashion

    Armani with Jodie Foster before he received the inaugural award for the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style in Los Angeles, 2003
  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
    FT SeriesThe HTSI Edit: the best new beauty buys of 2025
    The HTSI Beauty Edit: 10 ‘miracle’ products for mature skin

    Editor Jo Ellison shares her beauty MVPs

    Sarah Creal Face Flex Concealer, $58 for 9ml
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Taylor Swift is entering her conservative era

    The billionaire pop star now takes her bigger career risk — marriage

    Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce embrace in a garden, smiling and touching foreheads, surrounded by flowers.
  • Saturday, 23 August, 2025
    Wellbeing and fitness
    How many grammes of protein do you need anyway?

    The mania for muscle building is out of control

    A hand holding a scoop of protein powder over a glass of milk with a straw in it
  • Saturday, 9 August, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The problem with Sydney Sweeney is you

    Society can’t help politicising a pneumatic blonde

  • Friday, 8 August, 2025
    FT SeriesThe HTSI autumn arts special: heroes and villains
    Celine Song’s romantic heroes

    The Materialists director explains why we’re such a fool for love

    Celine Song (left) with Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans on the set of Materialists
  • Saturday, 2 August, 2025
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: serving Carlos Alcaraz

    A tennis legend in the making, secateurs and the triumph of preppy style

    Carlos Alcaraz wears Nike recycled-polyester NikeCourt Dri-FIT men’s tennis polo, £39.99, and matching tennis shorts, £39.99. Rolex gold and turquoise Cosmograph Daytona watch, £31,750
  • Saturday, 2 August, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Luxury’s problem? The price isn’t right

    High-end brands have ignored the aspirational shopper. No wonder they’re in trouble

    Two figures stand in front of Gucci shop window silhouetted by its illuminated interior, with a mannequin on one side and a display of handbags on the other
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