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posted by andremichael
Oct 16, 2008 3:44PM
paris as a blazer-sleeve-rolling, leather-pencil-skirt-donning, plaid-trend-embracing hip girl. interesting.
i'm anxious 2 see how this will translate with NYLON's readership.
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 5:02PM
the stylists who dressed her must have been blind. this is not edgy or stylish by any means. yuck yuck yuck. and why in the hell would Nylon put Paris on the cover? They're so hypocritical sayin they're all 'edgy' and 'cali cool' but really... they're just selling out. paris? i mean come on.. the girl is and always will be a HO.
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 5:07PM
someone wants to be PARIS HILTON?!
oh PLEASE tell me that #11 is just paris hilton herself and not some sad actual paris fan.
you could pay me a daily salary of a zillion dollars and give me a clone of chuck bass that shit diamonds and i STILL couldn't be persuaded to be paris hilton. even for a day.
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 7:00PM
In some of these pictures she reminds me very much of this Danish ad for a nose spray against allergies and colds. (Fashiony blond lady, in the 'you-can-relate-can-you-not-dear-customer'-way, with her mouth open because she CAN'T BREATHE.) It is so charming. Yes.
In the third pic she looks like a female Ali-G.
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 8:28PM
Who ever commented that they wanted to be Paris seriously needs to not be a part of this website or a reader of Nylon magazine.
Yes, we may not have as much money as Paris but we have a hell of a lot more style.
I will not be purchasing Nylon this month. And that's sad.
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 10:46PM
i can understand the kind of statement nylon may be trying to make by putting paris on the cover- kind of like a big fuck you to any preconceived notions about the magazine, perhaps showing they are above all the hate (perhaps also why they still embrace cory and peaches) but i dont think they executed very well. the styling looks like shit. it looks like they purposely tried to make her look bad.
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 10:58PM
This is so not suprising... I mean Cory Kennedy is friends with Paris and Nylon is just full of inbred-ness by using the same models over and over and then using their friends when they realise they can't do the same stuff every issue. BUT RE: Guest 10 I did like the styling of that Mischa cover a lot!! This is terrible though. It's almost offensive to Nylon's readers that they think they would swallow this crap.
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 11:04PM
Dear Nylon,
You were once fun, edgy and exciting. You were a fashion magazine for the youth. You created your own trends instead of following every other publication. Now you are boring, predictable, and unappealing. I know that you'll have a blurb on peaches and corey in every issue (really how many more articles can you write about fashion's new "it" girls without destroying them yourself). Young girls want to look up to cool, inspirational women who are indicidual with a unique fashion sense, not a playboy clone with a sex tape as a claim to fame.
Dear Nylon you're pathetic.
signed,
happy to no longer be a reader
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 11:16PM
this makes me think of the article from a couple of months ago where people were talking about making new covers for their mags bc they were ashamed of who was on the cover.
then i thought it was pretentious and ridiculous.
now its starting to sound like a good idea..
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posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 11:54PM
Nylon redeemed itself with me after that really well done tv issue (even though the one editorial in there sucked), but now, i'm back to thinking its past its used by date.
The articles in it are so poorly written and the whole thing is plain not worth buying.
Paris? Way to isolate yourself from your readers.
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posted by darraghdaly
Oct 17, 2008 12:11AM
I'm surprised that Nylon would chose Paris for their cover. It doesn't really fit with their alternative style. Like the comment before me posits, what is Nylon trying to say?
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posted by guest
Oct 17, 2008 2:02AM
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
By the by, is Paris Hilton even that relevant of a pop culture figure anymore? Five years ago, i could understand the fascination with her - the money, the fame, the name, etc. It was all a very new take on the word "celebrity". Nowadays, people like her are a dime a dozen and I honestly can't say she even remotely fascinates me.
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posted by vinylandjoey
Oct 17, 2008 2:04AM
im ok with Paris being on the cover of Nylon. right on, she sales, i should know, it's kinda my thing.
my problem isn't with Nylon as a whole. yeah, it has some really really great fashion, and top notch shoots, BUT Marvin Jarrett, along with the team of editors over at Green Street, need to pay closer attention to details that float in and out of some of the articles (i.e. Names, Music, FACTS)
It's got GREAT ideas in it, im just saying, get with it Nylon.
I'm not an asshole i swear:)
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posted by guest
Oct 17, 2008 3:45AM
"In the third pic she looks like a female Ali-G".
Heh heh heh. Snort. Guffaw.
I don't know who styled this but somehow they managed to make her ass and thighs big (that's some achievement, let me tell you). Can someone please cut her hair and wash all that makeup off? She's the embodiment of everything déclassé, yet without the irony.
Look at her strained expressions - such an amateur. That's simply hysterical. I'm feeling better about myself already.
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posted by guest
Oct 17, 2008 11:13AM
since the ol' stylist left for teen vogue, i'm just not sure about these new stylists (hello 90210 cover and inside spread? - i know this is a digression, but that was some of the worst 'styling' i have seen in nylon)...
nylon, puhleeease, i'm pulling for you!
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posted by guest
Oct 17, 2008 1:08PM
Nylon used to be fun, edgy, and very relatable to the young pop culture. I looked forward to every new issue and attempted to work for them UNTIL after submitting a short piece to their editor they not only ripped of my article and included it in the magazine BUT failed to respond to any of my e-mails. NYLON used to be innovative...
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posted by guest
Oct 18, 2008 8:50AM
Does a magazine cover girl really effect the magazine as a whole? Yeah, Nylon hasn't been all that fabulous lately but is it really fair to judge it before reading any of the articles? Maybe they used Paris to get readers attention, which clearly worked. People need to stop being so damn pretentious, just because a magazine supports people who are too "mainstream" in your perspective doesn't mean you should abandon it altogether. I'm no Paris fan, I would have preferred someone who's a little bit better role model, but it's just a cover girl. Get over it.
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posted by Kara
Oct 18, 2008 3:41PM
She's not even close to being relevant anymore. In Touch doesn't even put her on their covers.
Honestly, Nylon is so pretentious and in love with itself---have you ever noticed how the letters to the editor pages rarely have anything except utter praise for the magazine? They don't even reference specific articles or features half the time it's just NYLON! YOU INSPIRE ME SO MUCH! I LOVE YOU! UNTIL I FOUND YOU I THOUGHT NO MAGAZINE WOULD EVER UNDERSTAND ME! YOU'RE THE BEST! over and over and over again.
If you want to be mainstream thats totally fine with me. In fact I'd prefer it to pretentious indie-fuck but if you want to be indie-fuck thats fine too. Just choose one. But don't pretend to be too cool and above it all and then get people to buy it on the newsstands by having mainstream people on the cover. Just own up to it either way, you know?
That said, I have a free subscription.
posted by guest
Oct 16, 2008 3:28PM
eww.