Miranda Kerr Breastfeeds Enormous Monster Baby
- 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
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.
Naked Marc Jacobs Hawks Cologne; Thieves Rob Kate Moss
- 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
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]
Hillary Clinton Might Not Want Barack When Ted's On The Other Line
- 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 …
Do's And Don'ts At The Glamour "Women Of The Year" Awards
Daria Takes Aim At Jane Magazine
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…
Karl Lagerfeld's Giant Chanel Jacket: Pretty Fucking Scary, Yeah?
- 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]
- J.Crew's new, hipper, and less-expensive line, Madewell, has just tapped someone from the land of magazines for …
'Jane' Ex-Eds Plead With Ex-Subscribers To Maybe Look Into 'Portfolio'…
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…
Amy Winehouse Is A Bloody Mess. Literally.
- 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 …
'Marie Claire': Serial Shoplifter Of 'Jane' Magazine Ideas?
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…
'The Fashionista Diaries': More To Hate!
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…
'Marie Claire' Sees 'Jane' As Role Model, Requests Model Rolodex
[Left: February 2007 'Jane'; Right: August 2007 'Marie Claire.' And yeah that's a nipple.]
Breaking news from the August issue of Marie Claire! Sometimes supermodels like to be around other kinds of skinny people. Apparently that Czech model who probably negotiated a better day rate after she gave all those interviews…
Partying With The Ill Girls Of 'Missbehave' Magazine
"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…
Dear 'Jane' Readers, Explain To Us What You See In 'Nylon'?
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?…
What Will You Read Instead Of 'Jane'? Presuming, Er, You Read 'Jane'...
"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…
'Teen Vogue' Reverses Position On Food Consumption
Teen Vogue touts an interesting new pastime in next month's
issue: eating! Ohmygod, Why????
How 'Jane' Virgin Sarah DiMuro Does Not Want To Lose Her Virginity
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…
The Unbearable Quirkiness of the Unstoppable Charm Of Zooey Deschanel
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…