Nylon June/July 2008 : Scarlett Johansson by Marvin Scott Jarrett

[chicgarcon]

It looks like they're going back to their roots in terms of fonts and cover styles....They used to have covers like this all the time back in the day.

 

[FashionIllove]

yes aweeesome!!! katy perry!! w0000t!!!! I LOVE HER!!
AND DUFFFY!! ALRIIIIGHT NYLON!!! I SOO WANT THIS MUSIC ISSUE!

AND...WHOAA...at first when i saw the cover, i didnt know it was her SJ, and then im liek wow...she looks different.
but idk, i liek the cover.

i think shes pretty, i havnt heard her voice yet.


I LOOOVE HER LATEX LEGGINGS, AND SHOES!

 

[lmelanie]

is this out in NYC yet? I havent seen it on any stands yet..

 

[SnejanaIsMyMuse]

I was actually happy with this issue.It will be going on vacation with me next month.

 

[jewelbox]

The cover is alright - I've seen Scarlett look much better, though
Anyway, I'm still excited to get this one, just because of the contents

 

[DiamondSea]

Don't like the cover, and Scarlett is gorgeous usually. The guitar pose is so cliched, especially as she's not even playing the guitar on her record?!

I'd be forever grateful if someone could summarise/scan the Last Shadow Puppets feature.

 

[j'adorekapusta]

thanks for Courtney. she's the muse

 

[DiamondSea]

Just realised that the whole magazine is available to view on Nylon's site

 

[rollagasper]

Apparently they have videos online to go with some of the music articles, but I can't find them online. It's probably just me being technology ********, but can someone tell me how I can watch them? I logged onto myspace.com/nylonmagazine and didn't see anything.

 

[deschanel]

Ugh, just my luck. This issue is jam packed with interesting people, and the cover is Scarlett channeling a 1980's Guitar Hero star.

 

[rubyfixed]

As I opened this issue, I saw there was an e-mail where you could send Nylon opinions about the magazine - I took the opportunity to write this letter:

Dearest Nylon:
As I carefully remove all of the semi-vintage magazines from my cabinet, I breeze over issues of Nylon from 2005 - my eyes fixated on the models and articles, printed on thin paper that was made for flipping through. What a lovely time for Nylon! Models that are now famous first seen in Nylon's old, simplistic issues.

As I gripped this issue (featuring the undeniably gorgeous Scarlett Johansson), I was hoping for that same style to somehow resonate within the pages. I have come to realize though, that what was once Nylon's impeccable style and taste, has quickly faded into what (to me) seems like celebrity gossip and mish mash. With all due respect, I strongly believe that your magazine would benefit from using models (I have noticed a drastic decrease in real models gracing the cover.) Hoping I was not the only one who felt this way, I went on to thefashionspot.com (a well respected fashion forum online, where some models featured in your magazine go & post) and sought after the "Nylon Magazine" thread. Apparently many others have been feeling this way too. The 9th Anniversary Beauty Issue was just recently put on news stands and it was a great success - why? Because for the first time in about a year, Nylon decided to use models. I am not going to go on an endless rant, yelling at Nylon for their shift in direction; instead, I will simply leave with a question: Why shift directions and market to a bigger, perhaps more common market of people, when you already had a niche (and "respected face") in the fashion world?

Sincerely,
--Sam

Sorry if it generalized the Fashion Spot users a bit, but I know we all miss the old Nylon

 

[jennifer~]

Celebrity covers don't bother me directly, though using models generally promotes the more fashion-oriented image I prefer (to sum it up).

 

[SnejanaIsMyMuse]

Ruby ,nice email.

I myself never got to experience the old nylon(the first issue I bought was march 2007 with Christina Agueilera).But I have seen what nylon used to look like and it would be nice if it in a way went back.I did see a cover from the early 2000's with Ana Claudia Michels on it ,and it was striking.I would stop dead in my tracks if I saw that and would probably have bought it if that were now.There was also some scans from a 2005 issue somewhere of Adina Fohlin in a black and white edit that was beautiful.

 

[rollagasper]

I vaguely remember the "old" Nylon, which I thought was very artistic, fashion forward, and "niche" in the best possible way. But I was like 13 at the time and a bit too young to find all that relevant. But now I wish I had gotten some older issues because current Nylon is kind of churning out contents that I already have gotten enough of. They're not so "forward" anymore, because I find out about stuff way before they feature it.

 

[yalil]

I honestly don't mind Nylon not using models on their covers. I used to buy Nylon sporadically in the early 2000s and looking through their catalog of covers in one of their old issues, actresses and musicians have clearly outnumbered models even then (and Vogue, Bazaar and everybody else were using models; I think I counted what, 5 models?). I never really associated Nylon with models but more with people who were interesting, inspiring and fresh. What made them different was that they featured fresh and bright artists that you will never find in mainstream Seventeen or Mademoiselle or Entertainment Weekly or People, who were not necessarily popular but you knew had great potential. They had this sincere, innocent, indie vibe then which has transformed lately to hipsterism.

What annoys me is that they feature these empty, shallow and overexposed celebrities who are famous for doing nothing. And they go way too hipster "too cool for anybody" sometimes. And heaven forbid that the now irrelevant Mischa Barton is on the cover next issue. Who still wants to see Mischa on a cover is beyond me.

 

[sethii]

It looks like the photographer got so sick of shooting her that he just picked up a guitar and whacked her with it. The result looks like she has no torso, just the breasts which are always on show in all her pics and some flailing legs which look like t-rex arms.

 

[MissAnia]

I'm so fed up with Scarlett. Anyways, she cannot sing. She destroyed Tom Wait's songs ...