Customer Reviews

NYLON (1-year auto-renewal)

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I first picked up a copy of Nylon in Chicago, while browsing the newsstands. I wasn't sure if I would like it--years of subscribing to Vogue, Elle, and some stupid tweeny magazines had almost put me off magazine-reading for good. And yet I always manage to be drawn to the racks.

Nylon was different from the get go. They always feature unknowns on the cover, and when, on occassion, a well-known celebrity is featured, the stories give us a new perspective on them.

Nylon is worth purchasing for the layout in itself. I could spend hours paging through each feature, marveling at the graphics, and the way the magazine is put together. I love how they base some of the beauty section on famous movies or bands.

Nylon also makes a point of covering bands, movies, and fashion designers that, until now, have remained obscure. Everything they feature is amazing--most of the music they recommend ends up on my Amazon wishlist!

I would highly recommend Nylon to anyone and everyone. This obscure magazine will stun you with its amazing artistic layout, and introduce you to new products you may have never discovered.

After reading a few of these I realized that Nylon is just a rich hipster kid reference manual.

My biggest complaint about the subscription service is that I ordered a subscription back in the beginning of April and have yet to receive a single issue. Being that it's now almost July, I find that kind of ridiculous. Amazon is now in the process of "investigating" the situation, but I know I'm not the only one that this has happened to. I've talked to others who have subscribed to Nylon (either directly through Nylon's website or through Amazon) and have had the same problems. Months later, still no magazine. I've also heard of a lot of people getting back issues instead of current issues in the mail. This has happened twice within the past year that I know of. Had I known about these things before I ordered the subscription, I would not have bothered.

The other complaint would have to be that the content seems to be going downhill a lot lately. True, it has a very cool layout and it seems vastly different from other fashion magazines, but I have to say I'm pretty disappointed with their choice in cover girls lately... May was Lindsay Lohan, July is Nicole Richie. I suppose I would just hope that a magazine that is thought of as more of an alternative could come up with more interesting people to interview. I'm actually kind of sad that I bothered with the subscription after all... if I wanted to read about Lindsay Lohan (which I don't) I could go to the grocery store and pick up any number of other magazines that talk endlessly about her and her party pals. Surely there are more talented, interesting people within the fashion world to interview.

PRO: Nylon is a visual feast. Just looking through it is highly stimulating and inspiring from a design/artistic point of view. The lay-out is clean, fresh, and unique. There is a big emphasis on indie/alternative art, film, music, fashion, and literature. I found Nylon through a long internet search for an intelligent, artistic womens' mag, and it is just that.

CONS: NY-LON stands for New York and London respectively, which gives one a big hint about the target audience. Heh heh. I live in middle America, and I don't have access to the kind of brands, restaurants, bars, shops, etc. so touted by this magazine. One issue was exclusively centered around London... yeah, I can really relate. Not. Magazines like Seventeen are MUCH better about featuring merchandise and content applicable to females of every socio-economic background and location.

IN CONCLUSION: In my opinion, the positives highly outweigh the negatives. I don't regret subscribing. I always love getting my Nylon in the mail. Get this magazine if you want to subscribe to a girl magazine, but you don't want to go the usual cosmo, vogue, 17 route.

I got this free the other day and I've been having a hard time getting through it. Expensive fashion and makeup, with some articles on music that focus on the band members' preference for skinny jeans. British cosmetic brands they wish were available here? Hotels with great spas? I'm not sure who the target audience is.

I decided to subscribe to this mag after one of my faves, Amber Tamblyn started writing a monthly column. Offbeat and never boring, Nylon brings you all the stuff that the other "fashion" rags skip over. Written for smart, web-savvy readers who want to know more than where to buy the next up and coming handbag. With a lot of collage-type pictorials, you'll never be bored. A lot of vintage stuff as well; "background checks" are great. Many web references for you to surf to as well. Defiantely a thinking-gals guide to fashion, media and music.

I had flipped through this magazine and liked the trendy fashion. But as every issue came I found it to be heavily Anglo and white centric. The year I had subscribed the models were all white and blond most of the time. The London issue was only from a white perspective and didn't even go into the diversity in fashions from all types of people and ethnic neighborhoods that make London so awesome. Then there was the latest issue I received that had a whole article and spread on Nikey that was basically a huge advertisement ( about 6 pages of it). Not for me. Bust is funner.

...if you are a free thinking girl who want to know about art, music and fashion.

CLothing is treated as art, unlike other mags which represent fashion as a status of wealth and accomplishment. Beautifully laid out, smart copy, and relevant info.

A year's subscription for under 10 bux! Who can resist? So I signed up...even though I'm about twice as old as the other readers.

The good? The fashion is a good mix between high-street and high fashion. And, definitely, not boring. This is also one of the very few fashion magazines that regularly features fashion illustrations. Quite lovely ones, at that. So, yes...five stars for the eye candy aspect.

The bad? Any accompanying text from the cover to the last page. Lots of "I", "me", "my"...first-person stuff. Which would have been OK if the writers have a more mature and/or unique voice. Very casual and self-referential writing.

On second thought, maybe it's the appropriate tone for their intended market.

So, $10 for 12 very pretty glossies... Not bad, I guess.

I ordered mid-August and the first issue that arrived is september, which is great.

As for the actual magazine, nylon is my favorite American fashion magazine. While vogue has so many advertisements you sometimes forget that there's even any content, nylon is stuffed full of fashion, music, interviews, and it lasts me the whole month. I love it.