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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, 16 October, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HSTI editor’s letter: home is where the car park is

    Carchitects, LVMH’s new Paris hotel and probably the best brickmaker in the world: step into our property issue

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The inflexibility of the elastic week

    Workers want to reshape their working hours. But when does the work get done?

  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Bernard Arnault – ‘Paris is booming’

    With the Cheval Blanc hotel, the LVMH chairman and CEO is cementing his influence in the French capital – and his confidence in its renewal  

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    How To Spend ItThe future perfect: HTSI autumn design special
    HTSI editor’s letter: design for the world of tomorrow

    Marc Newson, Sophie Bille Brahe, Ryan Gosling, Norman Foster and David Rockwell join our autumn special

  • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The ins and outages of social media dependence 

    The Facebook blackout was a reminder of our reliance on social media. That’s not entirely a bad thing

  • Saturday, 2 October, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: a new serenity

    Finding calm in the creative spaces of Hermes’ Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski, interiors legend Jacques Grange... and Alice Cooper

  • Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Her serene Hermès: the quiet avant-gardism of Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski

    At home with the house’s head of womenswear   

  • Saturday, 25 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The winter of our baby dino discontent

    Prepare for patriotic panic buying — toys have been added to the shortage list

  • Saturday, 25 September, 2021
    How To Spend ItThe HTSI Autumn Arts Issue 2021
    HTSI editor’s letter: welcome to the arts issue for autumn 2021

    It’s a celebration of painting, theatre, dancing and song

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  • Saturday, 18 September, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: the menswear special takes its style cues from Dad

    Family portraits, polo necks and other ways to roll this autumn

  • Saturday, 18 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Britney Spears and the perils of female celebrity

    The singer may be slowly finding her freedom — but is the world really getting kinder to women in the public eye?

  • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: fashion for everyone, for ever

    Individualism and inclusivity take centre stage this season

  • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The Chair, motherhood, and the myth of the monstrous child

    The Netflix show reminds us how hard it can be to raise a kid who’s compassionate and kind

  • Saturday, 4 September, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: an autumn reawakening

    Kick-start the new season with Alek Wek, an audience with the Willy Wonka of whisky and a tour of Rose Uniacke’s gorgeous home

  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    It’s Anna Wintour’s world now  

    Condé Nast has scythed staff numbers and brought dozens of its magazines under the irrepressible Vogue editor’s direct control. But at what cost?

  • Saturday, 7 August, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: an enigmatic icon steps out of the shadows...

    Plus the US hotspot luring urban émigrés, and the Olympic hopeful who found an unforeseen winning streak

  • Saturday, 31 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Want the best advice? Ask a six-year-old

    How a Year 1 primary school class became thought leaders of the lockdown age

  • Saturday, 24 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The strange fascination of ‘Sex and the City’ 

    Carrie and co are set for a comeback — but can a late-1990s drama really be rebooted?

  • Saturday, 17 July, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Freedom Day? Just give me a minute

    For the virus, the lifting of all restrictions in England signals a free-for-all

  • Saturday, 10 July, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: beauty may not be a necessity, but it is an eternal source of joy

    Rock stars at Louis Vuitton, regeneration in Beirut and running up cliffs in the Dolomites

  • Saturday, 3 July, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: art to make the heart beat faster

    We take you to three creative hubs

  • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Let’s not be so laissez-faire about affairs

    If someone can tell bald-faced lies to their family and friends, why should we trust them to do their job?

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Can career envy be a good thing?

    Measuring our own achievements against others’ can fuel our ambition — or cause chaos

  • Saturday, 19 June, 2021
    How To Spend It
    HTSI editor’s letter: get your motor running…. We’re planning to escape

    From superyachts on the high seas to motorbikes in Andalusia, it’s time to make a fast getaway

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    Arts
    The beauty of the unquiet mind

    ‘Madness’, creativity and the post-pandemic culture

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