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Endpoint: Jill Spalding



created on: 9/02/2021
by: bob (9197)
 
 

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Jill Spalding (born Jill Gloria Weldon) is a writer and features editor.

Jill Spalding attended the Spence School in New York, Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Ct., Harvard and Sarah Lawrence. Every summer she accompanied her mother and step-father, the “violinist’s violinist” Nathan Milstein, on tour through Europe and briefly attended school in Gstaad, Switzerland.

She apprenticed in London then worked as a reader for Gallimard in Paris where she collaborated on a book about Joachim Patinir for Robert Laffont and undertook the first draft of her 3-volume History of Luxury. After a stint with Venture Magazine, writing for Frank Zachary about such as Karim Aga Khan (photos by Slim Aarons), she moved to London to succeed Joan Didion as Literary Editor, then Features Editor, of British Vogue under the formidable Beatrix Miller

Shortly after working for Gallimard, Jill became the features editor of British Vogue in London and subsequently the editor for British, American, and Australian Vogue Magazines, based in Los Angeles. During her tenure working for Vogue Magazine, Jill was responsible for publishing and promoting an impressive list of emerging writers, artists, public figures, actors, and architects. Nobel Laureates Sir Peter Medawar and Karl Popper, and then-emerging literary talent Tom Wolfe, Michael Crichton, and Christy Brown contributed to the magazine. Jill also featured the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, David Hockney, John Travolta, and Frank Gehry. She helped create the famous "Blue Issue" of Vogue, alerting consumers to the environmental consequences their consumer and fashion decisions had on depleting natural resources. As a consequence, Vogue UK stopped advertising wild fur while she teamed up with the founders of World Wildlife, delivering change collected from the Panda placed outside her flat to their fledgling headquarters.

Jill then married award-winning filmmaker Philip Spalding, and moved with him and their two sons to Los Angeles where she worked for the next 17 years for UK, US and Australian Vogues, writing on art, nutrition, Hollywood and profiling such as Fidel Castro, Nancy Reagan, Hunter Thompson, Timothy Leary.
The Spalding residence at 216 South Westgate is the former home of Greta Garbo.
Between articles Jill wrote two books; the best-seller Only the Best and Blythe Spirits.
When the boys set off for Exeter and Hotchkiss she moved to New York, wrote a column for Frank Magazine and restaurant reviews for Vogue Entertaining and Travel. She launched an internet radio show for PS1-MOMA on WPS1.org, called Miami on My Mind, which focusses on the Florida art scene.

She is the daughter of Henry H. Weldon, president of Weldon Farm Products, Inc., dairy manufacturers of New York and Amagansett, L.I., and Mrs. Nathan Milstein of London.
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Married to [m. 1971 -] : Philip Spalding
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on : 09/02/2021
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