Jezebel: Jane

Jane Pratt Returns, This Time Online

Irin Carmon — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:37:00 EDT

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jane Pratt, confessional foremother of Sassy and Jane fame, to the Internet. Be gentle. She's feeling sensitive — we get it, oh, do we ever. Also of interest: Apparently someone misses Paula Cole? Did Paula Cole write that? More »

Miranda Kerr Breastfeeds Enormous Monster Baby

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:48:00 EST

Meet Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom's 12-day-old son, Flynn! He weighed 9lbs 12oz at birth, and Kerr says passing that giant was "a long, arduous and difficult labour." She nonetheless said no thanks to pain meds. [Kerr's Blog]

Tavi Gevinson and Jane Pratt Teaming Up To Launch Teen Mag

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:34:00 EST

The Style Rookie/Daria fan/preteen who is constantly stylin' on everyone took to her blog to announce that she and Jane Pratt, founder of Sassy and Jane magazines, are going to work together to make some Sassy magic for today's teens. More »

Naked Marc Jacobs Hawks Cologne; Thieves Rob Kate Moss

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:30:00 EDT

Here is Marc Jacobs and his new men's perfume. It's like Tom Ford and Juergen Teller had a meeting, and this is what they came up with. "We tried it with clothes, but it didn't work," claims Jacobs. [WWD]

Art Class

Sadie Stein — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:30:00 EST

In a 7-page "story" from a 1930 Physical Culture, "There's An Art In Using Perfume," Jane learns the "secret of feminine glamour, internal and external cleanliness." Like...behind the ears? [ModernMechanix] More »

Hillary Clinton Might Not Want Barack When Ted's On The Other Line

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:40:00 EST

Hillary Clinton has not agreed to be Obama's Secretary of State even if she is officially offered it. [Politico]
She has, however, been asked to head Ted Kennedy's health reform task force next year. [The Hill]
Mr. Jowls will remain the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security. Jane Hamsher and others say, in so many words, fuck that guy. [Politico, Firedoglake, Politico]
Chuck Norris might be able to defeat ninjas, cowboys and anyone who talks back, but what he's really, really scared of is boys who like to kiss other boys (we assume that, like most raging homophobes, he furiously masturbates to girl-on-girl porn). Chuck Norris, I have watched gay bear porn and survived with nary a scratch. I double dog dare you. [Queerty]

Do's And Don'ts At The Glamour "Women Of The Year" Awards

Sadie Stein — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST

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It's that time of year again! That's right, 2008's Glamour Women of the Year Awards, which succeeded in bringing together Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Jane Goodall and Sarah Michelle Gellar, Fergie, Natalie Portman and Tyra Banks under one roof at New York's Carnegie Hall. With such a wide-ranging assortment of womenfolk, the clothes were kind of all over the map — or, since this is a Glamour event — were pretty evenly spread between Don't and Do! The Do's, the Don'ts, the Women themselves — after the jump. More »

Daria Takes Aim At Jane Magazine

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EDT

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It sucks big time that Daria isn't available on DVD (only the two made-for-TV movies are). Apparently, it has something to do with music licensing problems. But there are some bootleg torrents available online, and we recently watched some episodes from the third season. One that totally escaped us at the time (we don't know how) is the episode based on Jane magazine, fictionalized as Val. Editor-in-chief Val visits Lawndale and goes undercover as a student to follow Daria around for the day for an expose she was working on about "cool, smart" teens. Jane Pratt must've rubbed some people at MTV the wrong way at some point because the thinly veiled portrayal-with constant references to Val's friend Drew-is kinda vicious. Clip above. More »

Karl Lagerfeld's Giant Chanel Jacket: Pretty Fucking Scary, Yeah?

Jennifer — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:30:00 EST

Marianne Faithfull on that giant Chanel jacket sculpture thingy parked outside their couture show: "phallic." How long before someone brings Hillary Clinton's gender into this, ya think? [Fashion Week Daily]

'Jane' Ex-Eds Plead With Ex-Subscribers To Maybe Look Into 'Portfolio' Instead

Moe — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:00:04 EDT

Ah, poor exiles of the timber-wasting empire that is Conde Nast. Subscribers to its now-shuttered ladymag for people who don't read ladymags Jane are now getting Glamour, which is sort of to Jane what Jane is to .... The Paris Review... and old Jane staffers are pissed that readers have yet to call up and complain en masse about the fact that, duh, the existence of Glamour is what made them appreciate Jane in the first place, as ex-EIC Brandon Holley points out:

"Glamour is not at all like Jane," says Holley. "It's the exact opposite. They preach fake empowerment of 'loving your flaws.' Jane doesn't point out flaws."

Which brings us, obvi, back to Jane's fatal flaw that will now haunt it for the entirety of this whole shiva-sitting thing we're doing right now. Magazine subscriptions are so oversubsidized by the purveyors of salves for your flaws — you know, how you're bipolar, small-chested, smelly and grossly in need of a right handed diamond to exhibit your sense of "independence" or whatever — that no one gives a shit about that $9.99 they spent on the magazine that failed because its readers have already fucking figured out the "best jeans for their bodies." Anyway, our plea to Jane subscribers is this: More »

Amy Winehouse Is A Bloody Mess. Literally.

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:00:00 EDT

Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil "were involved in a violent row which left them both bloodied and bruised."Amy says,"Blake is the best man in the world. We would never ever harm each other... I was cutting myself after he found me in our room about to do drugs with a call girl and rightly said I wasn't good enough for him. I lost it and he saved my life." [Daily Mail]

'Marie Claire': Serial Shoplifter Of 'Jane' Magazine Ideas?

Anna Holmes — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:30:00 EDT

Marie Claire stealing ideas from another magazine? Never! On Friday, Radar called out the struggling Hearst women's title for the curious similarities between a fashion feature in Marie Claire's September issue and one in Jane magazine's (final) August issue. Marie Claire editor in chief Joanna Coles denied everything — she's known for her original ideas, remember! — telling Radar's Sarah Horne that she stole the idea for the feature (in which magazine staffers swap clothes for a week) from a ladymag in her native England:

I'm a total magpie. I stole the idea from a spring issue of 'British Vogue'. It would never dawn on me to look at 'Jane' magazine for ideas.

Never? Really? That's not what we heard! More »

'The Fashionista Diaries': More To Hate!

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EDT

You guys wanted it, so here it is—a Stephanie Trong clip-reel from Wednesday night's episode of The Fashionista Diaries. Whereas Seven House PR mentor Mandie "Cunt Face" Erickson deals with the assistants by alternating between verbal mockery and ostracism, Stephanie Trong, the former executive editor of Jane, utilizes the far more subtle tactics of bitchy verbal intonation, body language, and facial expressions. Enjoy/cringe! More »

'Marie Claire' Sees 'Jane' As Role Model, Requests Model Rolodex

Moe — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:15:11 EDT

[Left: February 2007 'Jane'; Right: August 2007 'Marie Claire.' And yeah that's a nipple.] More »

Partying With The Ill Girls Of 'Missbehave' Magazine

Moe — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:00:35 EDT

"I'm having trouble holding the camera straight because I had a little too much Ritalin today," I apologized. "THAT'S SO MISSBEHAVE!!!" gushed a tidily attractive Asian girl named Mary in a black dress and almost spookily perfect eyeliner, as I shakily aimed my cameraphone at Samantha, a tan, girlish thirty-year-old in chunky hoop earrings and a New York Kings cap. The afternoon's torrential rains had subsided to accomodate the rooftop party commemorating the latest issue of Missbehave magazine, a colorful quarterly that aims to fill the more sneaker-obsessed reaches of the void left by Jane, and I and Intern Maria had braved the chance of a relapse to attend and speak to Mary and Samantha, two pillars of the team upon whose shoulders that dream rests. "We've got the illest troop of girls together," Samantha said, a gold "MISSBEHAVE" nameplate necklace hanging from her neck. "And we like, let it rip. We speak our fuckin' mind. But we are not fuckin' feminist by any means." More »

Dear 'Jane' Readers, Explain To Us What You See In 'Nylon'?

Moe — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:30:41 EDT

How will you replace Jane? (Or as a newly jobless Jane alum just mused to us, how will Jane replace its jobs? "Do they write about diets now? Do they turn themselves into fashionistas?") Yesterday we took a poll as to your feelings on the matter, and last we checked the vast plurality of you said Nylon. Really? Nylon? We'd never actually read it. Until today! And we must conclude: "meh." The magazine really seems to like MySpace, which makes sense because it's sort of the less-unruly Myspace of paper, in that it might be fun for us if MySpace had not renedered all of hipsterdom (and the world) functionally illiterate already, so instead it reads like a braggy self-consciously dumbed-down menagerie of hipster references set off by pictures of hipster kids in hipster poses and ew there's Leigh from Misshapes. (Do you know who Leigh Lezark of the DJ collective Misshapes is? Did you only know because you read Gawker? We actually knew who Leigh from Misshapes was before she landed herself on Gawker, because we went to her party, "Misshapes," which would have probably been the most forgettable party we had ever in our lives attended if she didn't insist on reminding us of her incredibly substantive and influential existence so often). Anyhow! Onto the magazine. More »

What Will You Read Instead Of 'Jane'? Presuming, Er, You Read 'Jane'...

Moe — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:36:51 EDT

"Loneliness blows," begins a story in one of our leading contenders to replace Jane as the only women's magazine we actually enjoy reading. "And if you say that being single isn't lonely, it makes us way sadder for you, the delusional girl saying it aloud. Alone. As the words ping off your apartment wall to land in front of your morbidly overfed cat." Ughhh, right on top of the morbidly overfed pile of worthless magazines. That was from Missbehave, a new magazine that in the coming months will be vying from newsstands for whatever place in your heart Jane once occupied. We've assembled three others for a poll as to which one you'll be choosing. You might notice that Lucky, a publication chock-full of ex-Sassy staffers, is not among the candidates, because it is not really a magazine, while Elle is almost too much of a magazine to satisfy the sophomoric yearnings of the Jane reader. What will? You tell us! More »

'Teen Vogue' Reverses Position On Food Consumption

Moe — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:59:10 EDT

Teen Vogue touts an interesting new pastime in next month's More »

How 'Jane' Virgin Sarah DiMuro Does Not Want To Lose Her Virginity

Moe — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:43:03 EDT

So did you check out 'Modern Love' in the New York Times over the weekend? The one with the 25-year-old virgin who works at an abortion clinic and gets jealous when her friends have pregnancy scares? Because she feels like a lack of sex, although not a big deal, is a really big deal? That is trapping her in childhood and preventing her from being a "real woman"? So she goes on the pill, for the hormones or something, and finally gets laid? But doesn't feel good until the moment after she takes the pregnancy test we all know the result of, in that moment before she actually knows the result, because she doesn't necessarily believe she isn't pregnant, even though she couldn't have sex before she took pills that would prevent her from being so? Wait, what?? We tracked down the one woman we thought might be able to shed some light on Kate McGovern's situation, renowned virginity expert — and 30-year-old virgin — Jane virginity bloggerSarah DiMuro. Her thoughts:

I read this in Bryant Park and I was just like, whooah. I'm biased, but I feel like she didn't help herself by actually having sex. It as weird to me that she felt 'not like a woman' before. On one hand she's surrounded by sex because she works at Planned Parenthood and she claims to have this really clinical view of sex, where she says it's a technicality, but then she says it's really important. For most of the column I was thinking she didn't really want it.

The Unbearable Quirkiness of the Unstoppable Charm Of Zooey Deschanel

Anna Holmes — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:07:46 EDT

At the beginning of this month's Jane cover profile 'The Unstoppable Charm of Zooey Deschanel', writer Shelly Ridenour finds herself with the actress at a farmer's market. It's crowded, cluttered with street musicians and "family-run cheesy" but it's also "shiny" and "fresh" and "a little bit too predictable." Sort of, we might venture to say, like Zooey Deschanel, whose stubborn quirkiness is starting to make us wish she'd find a narcotic to abuse. But gosh! Such a cute dresser! (Seriously!) After the jump, all the actress' quirky attributes as pounded into our heads by Jane magazine. More »