Jezebel: Sassy

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 »

What Happened To Ashley Greene's Neck?

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:35:00 EST

Teen Vogue's March cover features a shot of Twilight's Ashley Greene that makes her neck look about twice as long as usual. Weird angle? Odd hair placement? Overzealous Photoshop? Perfect storm of the above? Whatever, it's uncanny. [Styleite]

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 »

Competing Isabella Blow Biographers Attack Each Other

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:30:00 EST

Detmar Blow and Tom Sykes are trading jibes with Lauren Goldstein Crowe over their dueling Isabella Blow biographies, both of which hit U.S. bookstore stores this week. Everyone is sniping at everyone over the email, sometimes in ALLCAPS!!!

Can A Ladymag Shuffle Actually Save A Ladymag?

Irin Carmon — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:15:26 EDT

Lucky was once called the successor of Sassy, and now it's being taken over by the former editor of Jane, which was the official successor to Sassy. Will you read? (Or... will you flip through and use those little stickers?) More »

The New Sassy? Hardly

Anna North — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:26:00 EDT

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The new online magazine Hardly aims to be the next Sassy — but can that mag's marked-up Chuck Taylors really be filled? More »

Fashion Blogger Tavi Gevinson On Terry Richardson, Cute Shoes, & Generation Y

Jenna Sauers — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:20:00 EDT

Teen blogger Tavi Gevinson spoke this morning to a packed room of industry professionals, reporters, and marketers about the "unpredictability" of Generation Y. They wanted to know how the generation's personal qualities would make young people liable to buy things. More »

Timeless: The Model's Guide To Dopey Fashion Poses

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:40:00 EDT

The more things change: I know I've seen the "Hip Dysplasia" and the "Dry Shampoo" in Vogue this month. [Threadbared] More »

Vogue India Gets Non-Whitewashed Cover; Carolina Herrera In Tiff With Tinsley

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:40:00 EDT

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Vogue India, which has been criticized in the past for promoting only light skin as beautiful, has five darker-skinned models on its new cover. [Vogue UK]
Illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt drew everything she purchased since 2006, and made a book. [Racked]

Teen Blogger Tavi Longs For Another Sassy Magazine

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EDT

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Thirteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson of fashion blog The Style Rookie recently posted a plea: "I, like many, would like another Sassy Magazine," she wrote. Tavi was born in 1997; Sassy ceased publication in 1995. So why does it speak to her? More »

Former Sassy Editor Christina Kelly Likes To Complain

Megan Carpentier — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:15:00 EDT

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Of course you read Sassy, and now you can still read editor Christina Kelly — on her own blog. She thinks freelancing sucks. Girl, I hear you. [Fallen Princess via Maura] More »

Britney's In Prison; Chelsea Clinton Is Engaged

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:30:00 EDT

Today trial to extend a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, a lawyer testified that he was once hired to free Britney Spears from her father's conservatorship because it's like living "in prison." [Yahoo]

Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"

Hortense Smith — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:45:00 EST

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At a time when magazines are struggling all over, a bit of good news comes to us from Australia, where a new teen magazine, Indigo has found an audience by focusing on real young women. More »

Do we smell a little competition? Word on...

Jessica G. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Do we smell a little competition? Word on the street is that AOL is creating a new "lifestyle site" for women in their 20s and 30s and they're looking for an editor "with a broad range of interests, strong writing voice, at least five years of editing experience and an old box of Sassy mags in her mom's attic," according to a listing in JournalismJobs.com, reports Alley Insider. AOL is looking for "someone who doesn't need an extra blue book to tactfully explain why Renee Zellweger is endearing yet freaky, and Amy Sedaris is freaky yet brilliant." Fingers crossed it will be less dull than Yahoo's luster-free Shine! (Click on the picture for the full job listing.) [Alley Insider] More »

Former Sassy Scribe Margie Ingall Loves Dudes With "A Butt Rug"

Jessica G. — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:30:04 EST

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Got a hairy man fetish? You're not alone! Sassy vet Marjorie Ingall goes on for almost 1,300 words about her love for "men with hair. And not just a tasteful little patch, dead-center, either: I like a full-on chestal pelt, hirsute arms, be-furred legs, even a butt rug." (Butt rug is officially my new favorite phrase!) She describes the straight bear type as "primal, manly, sexual," and wonders what other women see in virtually hairless teenyboppers. That chest waxing scene in the 40-Year-Old Virgin must have been traumatizing for Marge. Later on, she wonders, "why do so many grown women skeeve at the sight of male fuzz? Is it because they see hairless men as gentler, more likely to respect a woman's equality? Is a womanly preference for dainty smoothness a statement about our growing economic power and the mainstreaming of feminism? Or does it show our own ambivalence about gender roles?" I can only speak to my personal preference, but I think my distaste for back hair has nothing to do with the mainstreaming of feminism. That shit is just nasty. More »

The Defendant Will Plead Not Guilty To Negligent Homicide Of 'Jane'

Moe — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:00:23 EDT

The esteemed writers of the Sassy book have finally eulogized, all gravitas-y and "dying publications are like leaking balloons" and shit, the magazine we once called Jane. Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella subscribe, as a lot of Janeeologists have, to the notion that Jane was the casualty of readers' love-hate relationship with it, which we don't really get because, duh, love-hate relationships are sort of the engine of late capitalism. (Or wait, are we the only ones conflicted about refreshing TMZ 69 times a day?) Anyhow, then we came upon this.

The sassy youthful readers Jane meant to address are still out there. Some have gravitated to blogs like Feministing and Jezebel...

Wait, Jezebel=us, right? Are we even six weeks old yet? We are so flattered! But we totes do not deserve credit for putting Jane out of its er, sorta fun brand of misery! The credit is allllllll Conde Nast's. More »