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Jo Ellison is the FT’s fashion 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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  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    How to Spend It
    Daniel Lee: the man behind Bottega Veneta’s buzz

    In just over a year, the creative director has transformed the Kering-owned brand into one of the industry’s most exciting labels. Jo Ellison meets him

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    FT Magazine
    The Queen’s new clothes: behind the scenes of ‘The Crown’ season three

    Jo Ellison gets a sneak peek at a fabulously Technicolor Windsor wardrobe

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    Style
    ‘Dark rooms are for sex. Light rooms are for shopping.’ Peter Marino talks retail architecture

    As the store supremo unveils his latest boutique for Louis Vuitton, he reflects on 50 years of shop design

  • Friday, 30 August, 2019
    The Art of FashionArt of Fashion AW19
    From art to Akris

    Albert Kriemler works with a different creative each season to turn their works into clothes. He discusses his most profound collaborations to date

  • Friday, 30 August, 2019
    Lunch with the FT
    Prue Leith: ‘We shouldn’t be so screwed up about food’

    ‘The Great British Bake Off’ judge on why cakes make the world a better place

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2019
    Fashion
    Why second-hand is best

    Oxfam wants us to give up shopping for a month. Stella Tennant has taken the pledge. Will you?

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2019
    Life & Arts
    How to spend it well? It’s harder than you think

    Our gadgets promise to optimise our every second — but most of us are barely hanging on

  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2019
    InterviewBeauty
    Glossier’s Emily Weiss: ‘We’re creating the Estée Lauder of the future’

    The founder talks beauty, the global brow obsession and hitting a $1.2bn valuation this year

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
    Life & Arts
    What’s the biggest trend in fashion? Compassion

    Meghan Markle’s ‘woke’ Vogue shows the changing face of an industry — but is it for real?

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    Sinking feline: the trouble with ‘Cats’

    Its trailer is being hammered — but could the all-star musical become a hate-watch sensation?

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Naomi Campbell and the road to rehabilitation

    The supermodel will no longer be known for air rage but for her aggressive use of antiseptic wipes

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
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    Cult French brand APC: ‘We were doing the fashion politics of 2020 in the 1990s’

    Sustainable clothes, clever collaborations and high principles — how the fashion label hit on the winning formula

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Little Orphan Annie — materialist icon

    The late Martin Charnin’s fabled musical celebrated many things — but none so much as money

  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
    Womenswear Autumn/Winter 2019 shows
    Fendi couture review AW19: Karl Lagerfeld, emperors, new clothes

    In Rome, the LVMH brand stages a lavish homage to the late designer

  • Thursday, 4 July, 2019
    Womenswear Autumn/Winter 2019 shows
    Couture AW19: technical mastery — and flashes of magic

    Paris brought a bravura display of skillmanship, but soul was harder to find

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
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    Woke speak is scary. So swot up

    The language of gender is changing faster than ever — can you keep up with the labels?

  • Sunday, 30 June, 2019
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    The antisocial noise that pollutes our lives

    Modern life can be deafening — but for all the shouting, no one’s listening any more.

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    Fashion accessories
    Katie Hillier: the bag lady

    She did it for Loewe and Marc Jacobs, but can the accessories genius deliver the goods for a forgotten Eighties brand?

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Why we need to turn down the volume

    Noise pollution is making us ill — but simply blocking it out is not the answer

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    InterviewFashion accessories
    Paula Gerbase: How I broke free of the fashion system

    She closed her booming brand shortly after the Brexit vote. With her new label she’s taking back control

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2019
    Life & Arts
    The secret life of power-spenders

    Why the Netanyahus embody the glorious weaknesses of the wealthy

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Have you hit the age of irrelevance?

    Madonna rails against ageism in the media, but the truth is harsher than that

  • Thursday, 6 June, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Justin Bieber, Chernobyl and the death of discovery

    From Lisbon to remotest Iceland, humans are everywhere — and they’re ruining everything

  • Thursday, 23 May, 2019
    Fashion
    ‘It’s bold, it’s badass, it’s daring’: Rihanna launches Fenty fashion

    The singer has unveiled her first fashion collection. It’s smart on many levels

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
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    Jack Dorsey: super influencer or troubled soul?

    Twitter chief Jack Dorsey has been hailed by Silicon Valley acolytes for his persona…

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