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Jo Ellison

How To Spend It editor
Jo Ellison is the FT’s How To Spend It 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 style pages.
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  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: a portrait of the world in transition

    How a photographer captured forgotten China – and the architect building the future

  • Saturday, 10 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: why happiness is a perfect lemon squeezer

    The design issue, starring Axel Vervoordt, Yinka Ilori, Ron Arad, Peter Copping, Sophie Ashby, Flora Soames and more…

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Emily in Paris — as cheesy as Brie

    Cliché-ridden and completely outdated: Darren Star’s ‘Sex and the Cité’ will no doubt be monstrously successful

  • Saturday, 3 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: fashion, art and undercrackers

    This issue unveils a Roman conquest, a new gallery and made-to-measure pants

  • Saturday, 3 October, 2020
    Life & Arts
    The elementary appeal of Sherlock Holmes

    ‘Be interested in the minutiae’ is not a sexy mantra. But Sherlock makes it cool

  • Saturday, 26 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: introducing the iconoclasts

    An arts issue dedicated to the roar of individuality

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Life & Arts
    The pandemic, self-pity and the power of pink tulle

    Even in the gloomiest of times, fashion’s brightest minds are finding reasons to be cheerful

  • Saturday, 19 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: welcome to the park of life

    Menswear en plein air, the best new sneakers and ­celebrating 50 years of Paul Smith

  • Saturday, 12 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: it’s time to press pause on the sweatpants, people

    The style issue is here – so let’s dress up

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  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Escape to the country? Not so fast

    Rural life, for all its birdsong and pastoral views, can’t compete with the buzz of a reviving city

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Nicolas Ghesquière on fashion past, present and future

    At a unique moment of disruption – and reflection – Louis Vuitton’s creative director of womenswear looks back at history to see what happens next

  • Saturday, 5 September, 2020
    Life & Arts
    My weirdly unproductive return to work

    Ruthless remote efficiency or draining workplace banter? I know which one I’d choose

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: why September is the real start of the year

    A go-anywhere wardrobe and status bookshelves kickstart a new season in style

  • Friday, 28 August, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the politics of beauty

    Taking on the patriarchy — one brow brush at a time

  • Friday, 31 July, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: desperately seeking excitement

    This month we’re getting our thrills in other people’s houses, revving up new motors and trying anti-ageing therapies in Spain

  • Thursday, 30 July, 2020
    Life & Arts
    #challengeaccepted — to look like a mug

    A new empowerment initiative on social media promotes little more than vanity

  • Friday, 24 July, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Have you got the Moses factor?

    Dominic Cummings, David Beckham and why the summer’s hottest accessory is a wooden staff

  • Monday, 13 July, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: what is beautiful now?

    From wellbeing to philanthropy, our new priorities in a post-pandemic world

  • Saturday, 11 July, 2020
    Style
    Rishi Sunak: cometh the hour, cometh the brand

    The chancellor makes his colleagues look fusty — but is it all spin?

  • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Couture week goes digital – but what about the dresses?

    The presentations took many forms this season. Here are our favourites

  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: the places that earth us

    Dreaming of coastal sanctuaries and the beauty of brutalism

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    FT SeriesA very different summer
    Not dressed up and nowhere to go

    Jo Ellison longs for the opportunity to put on a pair of really painful heels again

  • Wednesday, 1 July, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Reset? What a load of rubbish

    We said we would live cleaner, kinder lives after the pandemic. So much for that

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Generation TikTok comes of age

    The old world order doesn’t have much to offer, so they’re cooking up a new one

  • Monday, 22 June, 2020
    The Art of FashionArt of Fashion: jewellery
    The enduring appeal of the Hermès bangle

    The French house’s enamel bracelets are classic, grown-up and pleasingly heavy

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