Jo Ellison

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (July 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Jo Ellison is Editor of How to Spend It, Financial Times^{[citation needed]}.

Personal life[]

Born in Cambridge and raised between London and Dubai, Ellison studied history at the University of Edinburgh^{[citation needed]}. It was while studying in Edinburgh that she met her husband, playwright, Enda Walsh,^[1] while working in the theatre where Disco Pigs ran during the 1997 Fringe. She moved to Cork to live with him a year later.^[2] They currently live together in Kilburn with their daughter, Ada, and their cockapoo, Alvin.^[3]

Career[]

Ellison's journalism career began the Irish Examiner and on moving back to London with Enda in 2006, she became features editor of The Independent, writing arts reviews and shaping articles by then-fashion editor Susannah Frankel.^[4] In 2008 she pursued an opportunity at British Vogue, where she became features editor, and then features director, before taking over as fashion editor at the Financial Times from Vanessa Friedman who moved to The New York Times in 2014{{citation needed}}. She was the second-ever person to inhabit the role after the newspaper decided to invest in regular fashion coverage in 2002^{[citation needed]}. In 2019 the British newspaper announced Ellison will succeed longtime How to Spend It editor Gillian de Bono.^[5]

Publications[]

• Vogue: The Gown, 2017, ISBN 978-1840917642

References[]