Ellie Pithers

@ellie_pithers

Executive editor @fthtsi magazine #COYG🔴
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New Orleans belles in @fthtsi wedding special out this weekend - styled by @isa_kountoure photographed by @inalevystudio 💒
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27 days ago
Jay Osgerby’s 18th-century cart shed on the Hampshire-Sussex border, in this weekend’s @fthtsi design special. Japanese bathtubs, @barberosgerby sofas for Vitra, Jasper Morrison stools, Noguchi lanterns. Gimme. Photographed by @kensingtonlaverne written by @becky_sunshine 🛁
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1 month ago
Spring 🌷
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1 month ago
As the kids say, in my Executive era ✍🏽📞📧🗞️ at @fthtsi . Thanks @jellison22 @louisquinze and the best team in the biz for the vote of confidence.
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Focus on Sylvia Plath usually falls on her tragic death - but she had a brilliant life filled with “vast joy” writes my @fthtsi colleague Helen Bain. After four years spent studying Plath for a PhD alongside being a super sub at HTSI, Helen has now written a novel about Sylvia’s final year in Devon, which she spent blackberrying, bell-ringing, visiting the local beekeepers’ association and writing the Ariel collection. Titled The Daffodil Days, each chapter is narrated by a different protagonist who encounters Plath at some point in their day, “to demonstrate how subjective a viewer’s gaze can be”. Head to ft.com/htsi to read all about it and preorder via Bloomsbury.
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At home with Sarah Burton, the woman reshaping Givenchy, on the cover of this weekend’s @fthtsi - just in time for #IWD. One of a handful of female designers at the helm of luxury fashion houses - there are only four at LVMH - and one who has always thought about femininity in its all multi-faceted brilliance. “Often as a designer, the first question you get asked is ‘Who’s your woman?’ And that makes women sound like they’re just one type of thing. For me, the point is how do you dress those moments in a woman’s life where she needs to feel a certain way? How do you empower a modern woman with the jeans that she wears, or the jumper, or the great big red-carpet thing? How do you dress a woman that makes her feel amazing but doesn’t overwhelm?” Read the interview by @jellison22 in this weekend’s issue, photographed by David Burton 🗞️🗞️🗞️
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2 months ago
What does a £3,400 Miu Miu apron say about feminism now? “We in fashion always talk about glamour or rich people, but we also have to recognise that life is very difficult. And to me the apron contains the real life of women in history.” So said Miuccia Prada at the SS26 show, the air perfumed with the faint smell of bleach. Not everyone was into it. “It’s giving working-class cosplay,” declared Operajunkie on Reddit. But aprons have always exposed anxieties over dress and social hierarchy. And don’t forget about the eroticism, as Professor Lucy Delap reminded me for a piece in this weekend’s @fthtsi . “It didn’t only have connotations of class inequality and hard work, but also of the curious way in which dirt and sex could intersect.” I could have written reams on this topic! Thank you to the chefs who gave their thoughts @lailacooks @stolzes @rosechalalai and the custodians of @theapronmuseum of Iuka, Mississippi whose collection spans more than 5,000 aprons dating from the 1860s. I want to visit! Read more in this weekend’s issue and at the link in bio 🍳
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2 months ago
At 74, Stellan Skarsgård is eyeing an Oscar for his performance as a neglectful film-director father in my favourite movie of the year, Sentimental Value. He has eight children himself; five are actors. He insists he doesn’t recognise himself in Gustav. “But I do understand that my love for work, for my art, made me incapacitated sometimes, at home. You cannot be a part-time artist.” @jellison22 meets the big daddy of cinema in today’s @fthtsi spring arts special 🗞️ photographed by @khaksariarash
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This weekend’s @fthtsi spring fashion special majors in joy. That might sound trite in the current geopolitical climate. But as @jellison22 writes in her editor’s letter, “when world events are dour and overwhelming, clothes offer some escape.” Our cover story sees her meet @matthieu_blazy , the new man at Chanel. Charged with rejuvenating an $18.7bn empire (no biggie) he’s met the moment with an infectious lightness, expertise and wit. Blazy says he was inspired in part by a documentary about Fred Astaire. “I thought it was amazing to see someone that was so joyful - someone that could really entertain - but at the same time be so good. Often something modern becomes cerebral, but I think you can say something funny and be very serious.” Read the full interview at ft.com/htsi, photographed by @indigolewin , or in the isssue on sale on Saturday and Sunday with @ft_weekend 🗞️
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3 months ago
Forget thread counts and the merits of Supima versus Egyptian cotton. How chic are your sheets? I spent a day in Copenhagen with @teklafabrics , the textiles brand that spotted a niche for cool bedding in off-beat colours, mix-and-match combinations and fabrics that didn’t go limp in the wash. Co-founded by Charlie Hedin and Kristoffer Juhl in 2017, they were profitable after two years and have plans to double the size of the business by 2028 - though that doesn’t mean they’ll rush things. As Juhl says: “It shouldn’t be so hard that it’s not fun at the same time.” Tap the link in bio to read the story, which covers this weekend’s @fthtsi sleep special 😴 - containing everything you need to know about getting good Zzzzzzzs. Photographs by @philip_messmann of the insanely serene office complete with bed and a snoozy white Havanese called Texas.
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Tim and Julia Little had just about finished restoring their 1726 Huguenot home in Spitalfields, east London when a freak 4am electrical fire burnt it to a cinder. (I mooted the possibility of a poltergeist but they haven’t seen any lurking.) Luckily, the couple are well-suited to revivals: they turned the beleaguered Northampton shoemakers Grenson into a £10mn business. Plus, they had interior designer and chief furniture-restoration wrangler @georgie.stogdon on hand to help. Testament to her talent, they didn’t change a single element of her original scheme. And now members of the public knock on the front door thinking their kitchen is a secret Martini bar. Tap the link in bio to read my story from last weekend’s @fthtsi and enjoy the photographs by @jasperfry .
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Louis Garrel has spent 37 of his 42 years in front of the camera. Which is pretty wild. “Any movie that I’m making becomes a point of reference for my life at that time - it was before or after the movie,” he tells @alicemcavanagh in this weekend’s cover story for @fthtsi . Brooding romantic is the French actor’s calling card. But, he’s apparently happiest playing a comic underdog - in an upcoming project, he even performs a choreographed dance to The Rolling Stones’ She’s a Rainbow. “I’m super-scared about it,” he admits. Photographed by @christopherandersonphoto and styled by @anastasia.barbieri , read the full interview in the new issue out tomorrow with @ft_weekend 🗞️
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