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Former features director of British Vogue, fashion editor of the Financial Times, and now editor of HTSI, Jo Ellison reflects on her career.
Ellison's journalism career began at the Irish Examiner and on moving back to London with Walsh in 2006, she became features editor of The Independent, writing arts reviews and shaping articles.
Feb 4, 2017 · Baftas 2017: How 'Notes On Blindness' became a contender. Directors Pete Middleton and James Spinney, and producer Jo-Jo Ellison talk outstanding British debut Bafta-nominated doc. In late...
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I’m Jo Ellison, editor of How to Spend It, the Ft’s kind-of-weekly lifestyle supplement, and former fashion editor of the Financial Times, where I have worked since 2014. Prior to that, I worked at British Vogue as features director, The Independent newspaper, and before that, at the Irish Examiner, in Ireland. I studied history at university and h...
Getting the access, meeting interesting people, watching the shows, and getting a ringside seat to the maddest, most extravagant, and completely bonkers business on Earth. No one moment stands out, but the peculiar adrenalin of having to stick a recording device under Miuccia Prada’s nose backstage to get the quote in order to file the show report ...
I say what everyone else says. Why, then, aren’t you naked?We wear clothes because we need them. And, by extension, they become semaphore for other things we want to say. We all express ourselves through what we wear – those who claim to care nothing about what they wear seem to express the most. Sherlock Holmes could unpick a person’s character wi...
Visual art? Or just creativity in general? As an editor, I spend hours of every day looking at images, discussing images, commissioning images, and debating visual content. I wouldn’t suggest what I produce is art per se, but it is a rich and stimulating creative medium that I would like to think aspires to have some kind of artistic merit. And, ob...
My god. I love so many… Picasso, Matisse, Caravaggio, Irving Penn, Hammershoi, John Stezaker, Gerhard Richter, Agnes Martin, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth… I went to see the Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition at the Tate recently and I loved the tenderness in her portraits. And I love photography. Recently, I’ve become obsessed with the work of the...
If you’re looking at something that is commodified and mass-manufactured for utility, and that wasn’t created as art then probably not. Designers are makers – they need to shift product. And they work in retail. However, if you’re creating bespoke, one-of-a-kind pieces then why not call it art? I’ve seen shows that felt like art installations. I’ve...
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May 31, 2024 · 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...
Jul 15, 2019 · LONDON — Jo Ellison has been named editor of the Financial Times’ luxury supplement, How to Spend It, and will take on the role as of September. Ellison is currently the FT’s fashion...
