Nylon January 2017
It’s been impossible to purchase any NYLON
magazine since Akademinen Kirjakappa (Academic Bookstore) was disbanded from
Stockmann Department Store Group. One of the most alternative, attractive and
ambitious culture magazines has its tough stories since 2014. NYLON Founder
Marvin Scott Jarrett and his wife Jaclynn Jarrett, were forced to leave the
chief positions in May 2104, due to the acquiring by Nylon Media, Inc., and
affiliate of investor Marc Luzzatto through his team at Dicersis Capital, LLC. In
January 2015, the Editor-in-Chief was Michelle Lee, while exact 2 years later,
the feel of the photography has changed more of a minimalism, and the Letter
from the Editor is from Melissa Giannini. Being as a hard core NYLON magazine
fan since 2006, it’s always fun to see the changes of the styles but also the
concern the cruel business insights of capitalism.
So the search of NYLON magazine has begun.
There was no trace at Helsinki city centre, not even at Relay of Frankfurt
Airport, until I revisited Eslite flagship store in Taipei, then the mission
was finally completed. NYLON January 2017 issue has it’s pastel, soft-focus
touch, presenting Alia Shawkat crossed-leg sitting on floor, a nearly rare
angle to present cover girl of NYLON in comparison of 2000 era.
The decision of purchasing any magazine to
my collection is heavily relying on the colour tone, the appreciation of the
icon and the contents of its soul. I did not realize that January cover girl
Alia Shawkat is Sam in Director Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (2015), until
during the interview with Safy-Hallan Farah did Alia show her ‘AY’ tattoo in
the memorial of her good friend, Green Room co-actor Anton Yelchin, who passed
away in an incident in 2016. With Norwegian, Irish and Italian ancestry from her
mother and Iraqi father, Alia has olive-hue skin, super curly dark hair and
obvious freckles on cheeks, more of a Portuguese or Brazilian beauty as the
first sight. This 27-year-old actress from L.A, is ‘a reminder that you can
exist in the entertainment world and remain authentic’, says Aubrey Plaza of
Alia. Alia herself expresses during the interview, that her Iraqi father worked
in a strip club when he emigrated from Bagdad, therefore, she used to visit to
see those strips girls dancing, and made a mini documentary about their lives,
and this experience affects her views toward sexuality, femininity and
attention.
Even more than she is strong and independent, Alia is highly self-possessed. She is the refusal to Facebook, and she only binges on Instagram for 15 minutes and then immediately erases her account. Nevertheless, she is quickly to admit during the interview that her disengagement with social networks has a lot to do with her own insecurities, on top of her reluctance to be just another cookie-cutter media sweetie starlet. While at the end of the interview, Alia and Farah are not hurry to part ways. They wander to the mini mall, get frozen yogurt, and walk until they reach the parking lot, then they hug and wave goodbye.
The interview of Alia Shawkat is as
old-school style as most of the fashion/culture magazine on the description of
the interviewee, still it’s amazing of NYLON that the editorial team always can
present some public figures who may not (yet) the Hollywood spotlight
nutshells, but with great potentials and whimsical talents, such as Alia’s
contribution her illustration to NYLON January 2017 interview. As my own photo
capturing of NYLON January 2017, I adapt two Chanel Camilla flowers to cover
the price tag, a pair of Vivienne Westwood pink orb earrings and its dark grey
felt bag in order to combine and contrast the pastel tone of magazine cover,
the Japanese porcelain rabbit is from one of my best friends’ wedding gift, it
was amazingly found during the Chinese New Year in my Taipei flat. The Ami Yumi
keychain designed by American illustrator Rodney A. Greenblat is my collection
since 2000, and finally the photo style completed with a mini freebie from Aranzi
Café in Taipei. The cover photo shooting contains the themes of pastel hues,
white, grey, rabbit, spring and lovely memory of Taipei.
About the other part of NYLON January 2017,
besides the paper quality is a similar adaptation of TIME or NEWSWEEK, on its
specific column, RADAR, NYLON provides another different vibe through the illustration
and Q&A; and NYLON long-term fashion reporter Dani Stahl does a lovely
Chanel resort collection fashion campaign at January 2017 issue. Touch Down,
NYLON, that’s why I keep searching worldwide and hoarding you since 2006.
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