Pro-Con List
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.

Never hated hipsters more
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.

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

Conde' Nast meets its match.
I was absolutely blown away by NYLON when I first heard of it. It was it's graphics, images and avant garde approach of featuring washed out, flesh faced and clean pictures in a Juergen Teller-esque way through Matt Irwin, one of their main photographers who either has started this trend or has just been given credit for it.

I have complaints in the uninteresting people they sometimes choose, and when they are interesting, the spreads lack in delivery. Mary Kate Olsens spread should have been different than how haggard, unkempt and unprim Cory Kennedy, Sienna Miller or Taylor Warren overexposed in their issues. Yet, it was the same. I also was insulted to see Lindsay Lohan on one cover. Although Christina Ricci, Christina (Xtina) and Avril Lavigne (cringe) had beautiful spreads. Evan Rachel Woods was brilliant. This is certainly a magazine that represents our generation of Chuck Palahniuk readers, metal, glam and retro rock, bohemian threads and patterns, designs and color to make a rainbow throw up.

But the concept is brilliant and sometimes bland.
But the blandness is purely intentional to convey realism rather than socialites or photoshopped goddesses, and finally a chance to realize celebrities are humans. They are/can be boring, filthy-mouthed, vulnerble and sometimes afraid of fame.

The theme is certainly a "I don't give a f*ck" while still giving a f*ck. They don't take fashion or celebrites or any of the above too seriously which makes the images, words and designs more meaningful and free, rather than restricting it in our Conde' Nast world of Vogue and Teen Vogue which only features high-end designers, daughters of wealthy or famous people and twigs with foundation on so much, you'd swear their faces weren't real.

Bravo NYLON. Just, have more intereting people in it.

I have not received it yet
I have not received this product yet, and i purchased it in early december.
I am beginning to get worried.