Jane Larkworthy, a veteran magnificence author and top-ranking editor throughout “The Satan Wears Prada” period of influential print style magazines, died on Wednesday at her residence in New Marlborough, Mass. She was 62.

Her sister, Kate Larkworthy, mentioned the trigger was breast most cancers.

Ms. Larkworthy’s work started showing in magazines within the mid-Eighties; her first job was at Glamour, adopted by a stint at Mademoiselle. By 1997, she was the wonder director of Jane, a preferred journal aimed toward younger ladies. (It was named after one other journalist Jane — Jane Pratt.)

Later transferring on to W journal, Ms. Larkworthy grew to become its govt magnificence director. She was lively on-line, too, writing for web sites like Air Mail and New York journal’s The Lower, the place for a time she was magnificence editor at massive.

Ms. Larkworthy seemed the a part of an editor at a shiny style journal, the sort satirized within the 2006 film “The Satan Wears Prada,” together with her straight lengthy hair in a refined shade of celebrity-colorist-applied straw and, as a rule, polished outfits that may have effectively introduced Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy to thoughts.

However whereas her fields of experience might sound superficial, her views on fillers and face lotions had been infused with trade data and a big dose of well-grounded skepticism.

“There’s by no means an excessively sappy ‘I’m obsessive about’ sort of factor in my magnificence writing,” she instructed the net magnificence journal Into the Gloss in 2011. “If something, it’s like, ‘Let’s weed out the BS, let’s weed out the stuff we don’t want,’ however I’m an awesome admirer of all issues lovely.”

“She undoubtedly wasn’t a pushover,” mentioned Kerry Diamond, editorial director of the meals publication Cherry Bombe and a former magnificence editor who was a pal of Ms. Larkworthy’s. “You actually had editors who would simply write what was anticipated of them, and that was by no means Jane.”

When she particularly appreciated one thing — a Le Labo candle redolent of sandalwood and cedar; a nail polish within the excellent impartial shade of greige — Ms. Larkworthy championed it.

Her tone was that of a trusted pal slightly than a pushy evangelist or fawning fan, leavened by a intelligent humorousness. For a 2016 W journal roundup of citrus-scented perfumes, she wrote, “Nobody desires to odor like lemon Pledge.” After attempting out a brand new cream with yogurt in its formulation, she wrote, “I get up with supple pores and skin — and generally a yearning for Fage.”

Her joie de vivre prolonged past the most recent magnificence merchandise. She had a cooking weblog, “The Fraudulent Chef,” providing recipes like a sesame hen salad, which was an try to duplicate a dish from a favourite lunchtime takeout spot. She additionally wrote posts on topics like dishware, entertaining and locations to purchase fancy components and sugary drinks. As somebody who appreciated meals however wasn’t professionally entrenched in that world, she selected the identify of her weblog “as a result of I contemplate myself a fraud of many, grasp of none,” she wrote in her first weblog submit, in 2014.

Over the previous few years, she wrote longer-form articles about meals as effectively, together with a number of items for Cherry Bombe. Her love of baking was manifested in an Instagram account that Ms. Larkworthy, who is likely to be precisely described as a WASP, named with self-deprecating aplomb: @shiksabagels.

Ms. Larkworthy drew a special form of consideration in 2007, when she testified within the trial of Peter Braunstein, a former Ladies’s Put on Day by day author and her ex-boyfriend. He was finally discovered responsible of a violent and theatrical assault wherein he wearing a firefighter’s uniform on Halloween evening to realize entry into the condominium of a girl, whom he drugged and molested. The sufferer, prosecutors mentioned in a sensational trial that garnered extensive information media protection, was a surrogate of kinds for Ms. Larkworthy.

As The New York Instances wrote, “Prosecutors say that in Mr. Braunstein’s twisted thoughts, the sufferer was a stand-in for his ex-girlfriend Jane Larkworthy, the wonder editor of W journal, who had rejected him.”

When the trial was over, her husband, Bertrand Garbassi, mentioned, “She very a lot wished to place it behind her.”

On myriad topics — magnificence, music, theater, meals, canines and extra — Ms. Larkworthy usually had a witty remark. However when it got here to the Braunstein case, Mr. Garbassi mentioned, “She had a quip about every thing however that.”

She drew scrutiny once more in 2020 with the resurfacing of a remark she had posted years earlier on Twitter (now X) that was seen to help a submit by Adam Rapoport, then editor in chief of the journal Bon Appétit, that was broadly thought of to be racist.

Within the wake of that episode, The Lower suspended her from her place as magnificence editor-at-large. By that time, Ms. Larkworthy was already effectively right into a interval of reinvention, consulting for magnificence manufacturers, buying an actual property license and settling full time in western Massachusetts, within the Berkshires, together with her husband.

Jane Hazen Larkworthy was born on Nov. 27, 1962, in Oceanside, N.Y., and raised in close by Merrick, on Lengthy Island, the youngest of three youngsters of William and Marjean (McKay) Larkworthy.

Her father oversaw group relations for South Nassau Communities Hospital (now Mount Sinai South Nassau) in close by Oceanside. Her mom, who was often known as Midge, remained at residence rearing Jane and her older siblings, Kate and Peter. There, she additionally designed and sewed hostess skirts that had been offered at Bergdorf Goodman, in addition to place mats for native boutiques.

She additionally made garments for her daughters, together with a checked cape for Jane that impressed her lifelong love of that sort of garment. And she or he did some freelance writing for publications like Lady’s Day Journal and Household Circle.

Like her daughter Jane, she died of breast most cancers, in 1980, additionally on June 4. Jane was 17.

“For most individuals, one thing like shedding your mom at such a younger age is likely to be the one horrible factor that destiny offers you,” mentioned her pal Ms. Diamond of Cherry Bombe. “Sadly, Jane needed to cope with loads of difficult issues again and again and over.”

Ms. Larkworthy earned a bachelor’s diploma from Ithaca School in 1984. She began at Glamour after graduating, touchdown a job by a short lived employment company (although it proved to not be non permanent).

She married Mr. Garbassi in 2006. Along with him, she is survived by her siblings, two stepchildren and two step-grandchildren.

To a few of her contemporaries, Ms. Larkworthy’s demise represented the top of a print-journalism period on the planet of style magazines.

“Jane actually was the final of the nice journal magnificence editors,” Ms. Diamond mentioned.