Jane magazine bit the dust. Founder and Sassy icon Jane Pratt left her position as editor some time ago, but her replacement, Brandon Holley didn’t have much luck either. I remember first reading Sassy at my product-obsessed piano teacher’s house when I was probably seven or eight, and I latched on to Jane from the very first issue (Drew Barrymore was on the cover). I don’t remember exactly when I drifted from the mag… probably about five or six years ago, but the last few times I’ve picked it up (inevitably at the airport), it’s been a sort of queasily interesting read. I was fascinated by how gross its voice had become, a quality that was hard to pinpoint, but had to do with its transparent desperation to simultaneously relate to me on a borderline inappropriate level, and generalize me into a huge mass marketing demographic. Still, I’d pick it over Cosmo any old day, though frankly these days I’m more likely to pick up Teen Vogue or Seventeen (cute, high-low dressing that has a more realistic approach how young women really shop), or even Lucky (straightforward, practical layout, wide price ranges, lots of indie designs). But what do you think? Are you going to miss the old Jane, or are you happy to see it go?

(current cover girl Zooey Deschanel)