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Jo Ellison

Deputy editor, FT Weekend & 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 Life & Arts pages.
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  • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: here’s to a summer of adventure

    After two years of frustrated wanderlust, we’re clamouring for travel

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Harry Styles
    The perfect evolution of Harry Styles

    In his transition from teeny popper to rock god, the musician has done everything right

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: escape to bohemia

    From the new Ibizan counter-culture to Santa Barbara style

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Johnny Depp and the guilty scroll

    The actor’s libel trial is grim, depressing and debasing. I can’t tear my eyes away

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Anna Wintour, the Windsors and the wisdom of keeping schtum 

    In a noisy world, there’s a power in staying silent

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    How To Spend ItMakers and creators: guest edited by Jony Ive
    The holding power of Ruth Rogers

    The River Café’s co-founder spends her day washing, lifting and wiping. But her hands were made for much more than doing dishes

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    How To Spend ItMakers and creators: guest edited by Jony Ive
    Introducing the Jony Ive guest edit

    How this special issue of HTSI came about

  • Saturday, 23 April, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: inside the writer’s room

    In search of literary inspiration – and lovely living rooms

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Arts
    What do we want from a work of art?

    Art is the opportunity to have your optics ambushed; it should open doors to different worlds

  • Saturday, 16 April, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: designing a brighter future

    The HTSI spring special celebrates Memphis Milano and the marginalised makers who helped change the world

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Bennifer, the rematch — and why love deserves a second chance

    When it comes to romance, we all want second helpings

  • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: how to say ‘I do’

    As wedding season approaches, here’s your fashion game plan

  • Saturday, 26 March, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: there’s no place like home

    From the architectural to the poignant, our houses have never felt more precious

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    Life & Arts
    The spy who came in for a snooze

    John le Carré is hotter than ever — but, boy, did he leave me cold

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Macron, Zelensky and the look of leadership

    The wartime hoodie has become a way for leaders to semaphore their sympathies

  • Saturday, 12 March, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: inside the new codes of menswear

    History and the headlines remind us that expressions of manhood are always complex – and often political

  • Saturday, 12 March, 2022
    Life & Arts
    TikTok and the human face of war

    For all its ills, social media can be a tremendous source of solace in turbulent times

  • Saturday, 26 February, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: art in residence

    This week we peer into the chaotic, superstitious or downright mysterious processes that drive the creators of great art

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    Life & Arts
    From catwalk to Kanye — the new politics of mask-wearing

    As Covid restrictions are lifted in England, might we actually miss our face coverings?

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Naomi Campbell’s baby and the myths of the older parent 

    For many women, the resounding certainty of one’s declining fertility puts hard roadblocks on one’s ambitions

  • Saturday, 12 February, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: spring fashion special

    Swing into the new season in suitably high spirits – and rediscover the delights of delving into someone else’s wardrobe

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Life & Arts
    Why a #wokemoment won’t make you more relevant

    ‘And Just Like That . . .’ tried to capture the cultural moment. ‘Euphoria’ effortlessly embodies it

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    FT SeriesHow To Spend It spring fashion special
    ‘I want to take the stigma out of second-hand’

    With Reluxe, fashion stylist Clare Richardson is on a mission to make resale more chic

  • Saturday, 5 February, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: pageantry and progress

    What does a 21st-century princess look like?

  • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: the pull of Country

    Mesmerising Aboriginal art and the fashion for mudlarking

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