Nylon

Customer Rating:
Summary: Eye candy & I, I, I
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Totally original and unique, without pretensions
Comment: Nylon magazine is, by far, one of the best magazines out right now. Nylon reviews current fashion trends, new music, and art with a keen eye, choosing only the most interesting and of the best quality. They always have interesting interviews, mostly with up and coming actors and musicians, and their covers rarely fall subject to talentless famous faces. The design of the magazine is visually intriguing; every page draws you in with original photography and meticulous details. Nylon's writing is wonderfully ironic and fun, always remaining accessible and never coming off as pretentious like many of its peers.

Customer Rating:
Summary: nylon magazine
Comment: this magazine is really good for people who have unique style and it was a little different than what i expected. that may be because it was the music issue but still im not sure if all the clothing is my style. I wish i would have known a little more about the magazine before i bought it but i still like it so its good!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Dissapointed
Comment: 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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Pro-Con List
Comment: 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.