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carmenb513 · Coach

JANE MAGAZINE goes bye bye!

jacL · Coach

I was just going to post this! I had a subscription for a few years until about six months ago, and I never renewed it. Well, I ended up buying the June/July issue and remembered why I loved this magazine and then just today I read that they are folding. I am so sad!

Kelly · Hermes

I couldn't ever decide what I thought about that magazine. Some of the features I really liked, but on the other hand it just seemed like they were all trying too hard to be smartasses all the time, and that was annoying. I felt like half the things were written by some rebellious punk kid who never grew out of her cynical 15-year-old mindset. So I'm kind of blah about the whole thing.

cahabo · Kate Spade

I never liked it. The few times I got an issue it seemed like the magazine was a scrapbook for the people who worked for the magazine.

wicked · Coach

Haha, I just got a renewal notice/offer from them today and tossed it in recycling- yipe!

pollyjean23 · Marc Jacobs

That's a bummer. Not my fave mag in the whole wide world, but nice to have around.

fashionista L · Coach

I actually think I just renewed that one... Wonder if they will give me a refund?

relrel · Marc Jacobs

Serves them right. Everything that was good and wholesome about Jane (and Sassy) had been destroyed by corporate magazine America. I'm sorry if anybody really liked Jane and their newish editor (Brandon Something or Other), but I really really miss the days of Jane Pratt (and Christina and Andrea from Sassy). The magazine just simply couldn't hold my interest, I read it when Jane Pratt was still there out of loyalty but when Brandon came on board (yes, I know that Jane voluntarily left but I have my doubts) I immediately cancelled my subscription.

ETA: I just reread what I wrote and I realized that I might sound a little stalker-ish with the goings-on of the Jane magazine...but I'm pretty sure that any old-school Sassy readers would totally understand my obsession. smile

-- Edited by relrel at 22:18, 2007-07-10

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

I liked that the mag seemed to be the "anti" fashion fashion magazine, focusing on worldy travels, philanthropy, indie music, good books, home decor, etc. It wasn't all about "how to have your best orgasm, how to please him, how to look your best, what to wear to be the best" etc. I'll miss it.

squishy · Coach

to me, the end of "jane" was when jane pratt was kicked out of her eponymous magazine :(

scarlett · Marc Jacobs

relrel wrote:

Serves them right. Everything that was good and wholesome about Jane (and Sassy) had been destroyed by corporate magazine America. I'm sorry if anybody really liked Jane and their newish editor (Brandon Something or Other), but I really really miss the days of Jane Pratt (and Christina and Andrea from Sassy). The magazine just simply couldn't hold my interest, I read it when Jane Pratt was still there out of loyalty but when Brandon came on board (yes, I know that Jane voluntarily left but I have my doubts) I immediately cancelled my subscription.

ETA: I just reread what I wrote and I realized that I might sound a little stalker-ish with the goings-on of the Jane magazine...but I'm pretty sure that any old-school Sassy readers would totally understand my obsession.

-- Edited by relrel at 22:18, 2007-07-10

I wasn't really allowed to read Sassy when I was a teenager (yeah, strict parents) but at my first job out of college I worked with a former Sassy writer who was a very cool, interesting person. She made me wish I'd been allowed to read it!

-- Edited by scarlett at 10:32, 2007-07-11

blink · Coach

ttara123 wrote:

I couldn't ever decide what I thought about that magazine. Some of the features I really liked, but on the other hand it just seemed like they were all trying too hard to be smartasses all the time, and that was annoying. I felt like half the things were written by some rebellious punk kid who never grew out of her cynical 15-year-old mindset. So I'm kind of blah about the whole thing.

This is how I ended up feeling about Jane as well. I just thought they could use some more tact and grace but still be hip and savvy. The magazine was always interesting, but usually disappointed me for some of the cynicism.

honey · Gucci

eh, i won't miss it. i loved sassy when i was younger, and having been a fan of sassy, jane (esp. post jane pratt) was a huge letdown.

relrel -- i think the christina you refer to (christina kelly) worked for jane pre & post pratt, and andrea is now the creative director at lucky. actually a lot of former sassy staffers ended up working for lucky (kim france, andrea linnett, gigi guerra -- i am a mag junkie).

personally i never really felt jane was an alternative to the standard women's magazine. imo almost all women's mags are full of the same crap just packaged differently to target their audience.

relrel · Marc Jacobs

honey wrote:

relrel -- i think the christina you refer to (christina kelly) worked for jane pre & post pratt, and andrea is now the creative director at lucky. actually a lot of former sassy staffers ended up working for lucky (kim france, andrea linnett, gigi guerra -- i am a mag junkie).

I know...it's why I still subscribe to Lucky-- out of some wierd sense of loyalty. I figure that if those girls were cool enough for Sassy, then that magazine can't be all that bad. hmm

I had thought that CK had left Jane pretty shortly after JP left, but I could be wrong. Like I said, I canceled right away.

Do you remember the guy that worked for Sassy? It's been driving me nuts what his name was!

subwolley · Kate Spade

I won't miss Jane either. I used to subscribe, but after a year subscribtion, I never read it again. I thought the magazine was boring, and didn't have any features that interested me. Bye bye Jane!

wetbandit42 · Marc Jacobs

I'll really miss it. I loved it, and I think it was really different from the mainstream mags such as Cosmo. I loved the smartass attitudes of the writers, and I thought that they pulled off a pretty great magazine.

I swear all the magazines I read eventually fold. It started with Mademoiselle, and continued on down the line until Jane. cry

I still have a year of my subscription left - I wonder which magazine they'll switch it to?

-- Edited by wetbandit42 at 12:02, 2007-07-12

TheLovelyLady71 · Hermes

I read this magz. maybe once or twice, and it was OK. No big loss for me. LOL

honey · Gucci

relrel wrote:

honey wrote:

relrel -- i think the christina you refer to (christina kelly) worked for jane pre & post pratt, and andrea is now the creative director at lucky. actually a lot of former sassy staffers ended up working for lucky (kim france, andrea linnett, gigi guerra -- i am a mag junkie).

I know...it's why I still subscribe to Lucky-- out of some wierd sense of loyalty. I figure that if those girls were cool enough for Sassy, then that magazine can't be all that bad. I had thought that CK had left Jane pretty shortly after JP left, but I could be wrong. Like I said, I canceled right away.

Do you remember the guy that worked for Sassy? It's been driving me nuts what his name was!

no, but i wish i did! i used to have such a collection of mags, including sassy, but my family moved and i lost them all. i really, really miss all my old sassy mags.

kenzie · Chanel

honey wrote:

no, but i wish i did! i used to have such a collection of mags, including sassy, but my family moved and i lost them all. i really, really miss all my old sassy mags.

Me, too!! I had several boxes of old magazines from my pre-teen/teen years and my mom made me get rid of them when she moved into a townhouse several years ago. I still miss them! But, I will never part with my collection of Lucky. I have every issue ever published and I actually do reference them on a semi-regular basis.

As for Jane, I never really liked it. I felt that it tried to hard to develop it's cynical 'voice.'

wicked · Coach

honey wrote:

relrel wrote:

honey wrote:

relrel -- i think the christina you refer to (christina kelly) worked for jane pre & post pratt, and andrea is now the creative director at lucky. actually a lot of former sassy staffers ended up working for lucky (kim france, andrea linnett, gigi guerra -- i am a mag junkie).

I know...it's why I still subscribe to Lucky-- out of some wierd sense of loyalty. I figure that if those girls were cool enough for Sassy, then that magazine can't be all that bad. I had thought that CK had left Jane pretty shortly after JP left, but I could be wrong. Like I said, I canceled right away.

Do you remember the guy that worked for Sassy? It's been driving me nuts what his name was!

It was Jeff something I believe. Christina Kelly went to YM then Ellegirl, both of which folded under her leadership.