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===''HTSI''=== HTSI (originally ''How to Spend It'') is a weekly magazine published with ''FT Weekend''. Founded and launched by Julia Carrick<ref>{{cite web|title=Julia Carrick|url=http://www.ftconferences.com/luxury2011/Page/Julia-Carrick/|work=FT Conferences|access-date=5 September 2011|archive-date=27 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027044506/http://www.ftconferences.com/luxury2011/Page/Julia-Carrick/}}</ref> with Lucia van der Post as founding editor,<ref name="HTSI.com-launch"/> its articles concern [[luxury good]]s such as [[yacht]]s, [[mansion]]s, [[apartment]]s, [[horlogerie]], [[haute couture]] and [[automobiles]], as well as fashion and columns by individuals in the arts, gardening, food, and hotel and travel industries. ''How to Spend It'' started in 1967 as a one-page consumer goods feature in the newspaper, which was edited by Sheila Black, the ''FT''{{'s}} first female journalist, a former actor.<ref name="HTSI-guardian">{{cite news|last=Beckett|first=Andy|title=How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1%|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/19/how-to-spend-it-the-shopping-list-for-the-1-percent|access-date=3 September 2018|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 July 2018|location=London|archive-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903215252/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/19/how-to-spend-it-the-shopping-list-for-the-1-percent|url-status=live}}</ref> To celebrate its 15th anniversary, ''FT'' launched the online version of this publication on 3 October 2009.<ref name="HTSI.com-launch">{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Katie|title=How To Spend It goes online β FT lures advertisers into uncharted waters|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/oct/02/ft-how-to-spend-it-online-launch|access-date=5 September 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 October 2009|location=London|archive-date=21 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221044222/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/oct/02/ft-how-to-spend-it-online-launch|url-status=live}}</ref> Some media commentators were taken aback by the online launch of a website supporting [[conspicuous consumption]] during the financial [[austerity]] of the [[Great Recession|late-2000s recession]].<ref name="HTSI.com-launch"/> The magazine has been derided in rival publishers' blogs, as "repellent" in the ''Telegraph''<ref>{{cite news|last=Oborne|first=Peter|title=The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100100708/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812192831/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100100708/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom/|archive-date=12 August 2011|access-date=5 September 2011|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=11 August 2011|author-link=Peter Oborne|location=London}}</ref> and "a latter-day ''[[Absolutely Fabulous|Ab Fab]]'' manual" in ''The Guardian''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Flynn|first=Paul|title=Why Absolutely Fabulous now looks absolutely prescient|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/absolutely-fabulous-prescient-ab-fab|access-date=5 September 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 August 2011|location=London|archive-date=9 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909104318/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/absolutely-fabulous-prescient-ab-fab|url-status=live}}</ref> A 'well-thumbed' copy of the supplement was found when rebel forces broke into [[Colonel Gaddafi]]'s Tripoli compound during the [[Libyan civil war (2011)|2011 Libyan Civil War]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Walker|first=Portia|title=Under the broken city, families explore Gaddafi's warren|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/under-the-broken-city-families-explore-gaddafis-warren-2345260.html|access-date=15 October 2012|newspaper=The Independent|date=11 August 2011|location=London|archive-date=1 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001002728/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/under-the-broken-city-families-explore-gaddafis-warren-2345260.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2021, an Arabic version of ''HTSI'' was launched by [[Othman Al Omeir]], founder of ''[[Elaph]]'' online newspaper.<ref name=ft16621>{{cite news|title=Elaph launches How To Spend It Arabic, in association with Financial Times|url=https://aboutus.ft.com/press_release/elaph-launches-how-to-spend-it-arabic-in-association|access-date=6 November 2021|work=Financial Times|date=16 June 2021|archive-date=6 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106180927/https://aboutus.ft.com/press_release/elaph-launches-how-to-spend-it-arabic-in-association|url-status=live}}</ref> ''HTSI Arabic'' is published in London.<ref name=ft16621/> The name of the magazine was changed in 2022 from ''How to Spend It'' to ''HTSI''.
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