NYLON USA April 2014
Due to Sienna Miller on the cover of Nylon
USA February 2007 issue, I started to discover how alternative, artistic and
rock ‘n’ roll Nylon is. Unfortunately, my careless mistake led to giving away
August 2009 issue to a female who now no longer my friend, so Sienna Miller Nylon
collection contains only 3 covers in total.
Editor-in-chief Marvin Scott Jarrett has been shooting Nylon covers for 15 years, he usually takes the photos at indoor studio, and adopts pure white background and High ISO technique to create a rather brighter outcome. After 2009, Nylon stylists dress up covers girls with over colourful-punk, mix-and-match outfits, which, perhaps, try to allure much younger readers to enjoy. In 2011, I only collect one issue since Nylon’s tendency afar from those classic and credible girls. Lily Collins, Christina Ricci or Emily Browning cannot evoke any of my interest to get a single copy: too many faces are boringly naïve, the styles are awkwardly ugly, and the hue is overly brightly. I dislike any of brainless media listing up the ‘it girl’ non-stop, since those who is too ‘it’ merely a notoriously illy.
Always consider Sienna Miller’s off-gala
styles are effortlessly fashionable, and aside from her relationship rumours, I
am pretty much willing to spend some cash on magazine features of her. On Nylon
April 2014 issue, fashion campaign pages are still shot by Jarrett, with
Ray-Ban sunglasses, Saint Laurent jacket, Iceberg dress or even American
Apparel socks on style, the high-street fashion is very Sienna. From the interview
written by Mallory Rice, Sienna’s thinks ‘it’s better to talk from the heart’
because her ‘modus operandi after having the baby’. Too sad that Sienna and her
sister Savannah stepped down their women’s wear label Twenty8Twelve in 2012,
but it was for lack of time, not lack of interest. I am such a big
Twenty8Twelve fan, I hope there will be new collection in the near future soon.
Another reason I love Nylon magazine, is
that it creates the special issue by shooting or illustrating in a unique way. ‘Super
Sweet 15’ records the 5482 days of Nylon history: Montage technique portraits
those ‘it girls’ past images, such as Ashley Olsen, Oh land, Ellen Page or Lana
del Ray, and designers’ b-day cards present the highest inspiration on visual
pleasure. It’s interesting, and maybe a bit nostalgic, to count the numbers of
the covers I have my very personal copies. Happy Birthday, Nylon! Once the
coolest independent magazine at the market, now it still dreams big.
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