This week's Page Six Magazine features a profile of former Sassy editor and Jane founder, Jane Pratt. The story, by Deborah Kolben (not online, like nearly all P6M content), has a little tidbit about the editor's difficult relationship with Condé Nast, the owner (after the corporate shuffle of Fairchild Publication) of her eponymous magazine:

It's not clear who ended the relationship; Jane claims that it was a mutual breakup, though she admits 'there were resentments on both sides.'...  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/jane-pratt-remembers-cond-nast-there-were-resentments-both-sides#comments Brandon Holley Jane Pratt Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:36:10 -0400 Matt Haber 69979 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/2007/townhouse-sale-so-jane

Jane Pratt's eponymous Conde Nast magazine may have folded this summer, but the recent sale of her Greenwich Village townhouse might console her. She got more than the $3.65 million asking price for the three-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot townhouse, the Wall Street Journal reported. She bought it six years ago for nearly $2 million.

Erin Boisson Aries of Brown Harris Stevens had the listing.

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/townhouse-sale-so-jane#comments Real Estate Jane Pratt Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:48:26 -0400 Tom Acitelli 58551 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/2007/early-nineties-revival-alert-sassy-follows-spy-s-footsteps-tribute-book-party

"“Our inner 15-year-olds are like, oh my God,”" said Marisa Meltzer, co-author of How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time (Faber and Faber), standing next to her collaborator, Kara Jesella, at the aptly named Lolita Bar on the Lower East Side.

The two women were celebrating their 128-page, extensively researched homage to a publication that expanded boundaries of girl culture to include Doc Martens, indie-rock bands and first-person essays using the phrase “blow job.”  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/early-nineties-revival-alert-sassy-follows-spy-s-footsteps-tribute-book-party#comments Media Style Book Parties Jane Pratt Sassy Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:50:20 -0400 Gillian Reagan 53586 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/2001/how-did-mademoiselle-lose-girls-it-couldnt-keep-sassy-age-0 What caused Mademoiselle ,the Jan Brady of Condé Nast, to finally crumple?  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/2001/how-did-mademoiselle-lose-girls-it-couldnt-keep-sassy-age-0#comments Conde Nast Publications Inc. Elizabeth Crow Jane Pratt Tom Rogers Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:00:00 -0400 Sridhar Pappu and Gabriel Snyder 45036 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/2001/how-did-mademoiselle-lose-girls-it-couldnt-keep-sassy-age What caused Mademoiselle, the Jan Brady of Condé Nast, to finally crumple?

 

Blame Jane Pratt. When it was closed on Oct. 1, the once comparatively thoughtful Mademoiselle, edited by British import Mandi Norwood, was still trying to mimic the informal, breaking-the-fourth-wall voice that Ms. Pratt minted over a decade ago at Sassy -a voice that Ms. Pratt successfully mellowed into the pages of Fairchild's Jane, now flourishing under AdvancePublications, Condé Nast's parent.

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But Mademoiselle, founded in 1935 and acquired from Street & Smith by Sam Newhouse in 1959, could never really make the transition from white-gloved authority to "sister girlfriend." In the post-post-feminist era of product shots, shameless frivolity and frank sexual patter, there was no need for the smart magazine it once was, and no need for another airheaded one.]]> http://www.observer.com/2001/how-did-mademoiselle-lose-girls-it-couldnt-keep-sassy-age#comments Arts & Culture Media Conde Nast Publications Inc. Elizabeth Crow Jane Pratt Tom Rogers Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:00:00 -0400 : Alexandra Jacobs 45053 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/41358 Art photographer Joyce Baronio recalled the last time she saw art dealer Leo Castelli: It was about  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/41358#comments Media Bill Maher Jane Pratt Joyce Baronio Leo Castelli Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:00:00 -0400 Frank DiGiacomo 41358 at http://www.observer.com http://www.observer.com/node/40923 When Marisa Tomei boarded Donald Trump's Boeing 727 jet on Dec.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/40923#comments Bergdorf Goodman Inc. Bryan Bradley Jane Pratt Josh Patner Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:00:00 -0500 Alexandra Zissu 40923 at http://www.observer.com