Nylon Magazine

Their shop and their customer service is awful. I was so excited for the items I ordered a month ago — many of which have not come in and Christmas Eve is a day away. The ones that did were full of issues — wrong size and color, etc. Almost no one knows what’s going on when I try (they don’t always answer) — to call. They finally sent me an updated tracking # and it only said «preshipment mode.» So, I guess that’s not going to ship in time for the present it was supposed to be. I’d recommend anything BUT buying with them.

These guys are a big scam, they also go under the name of Socialyte. If you give them your name and email and inquire about their marketing service, they will send you a bogus invoice and threaten to go to collections and harass you over the phone. DO NOT FALL FOR THEIR TACTICS. We just inquired, their service is overpriced and we told them that over the phone but they insisted that we owed them for a service that they never even provided.

I ordered a pair of shoes from the Nylon Shop… ugh. I did not expect anything amazing, but I did not expect to receive lightweight pair of the cheapest pair of shoes I’ve ever seen. If there was a 25 cent machine big enough to fit shoes in, these are the ones that would come out. And they don’t have a customer review section in their shop, so I can’t warn people. What an absolute waste of money. I’d be so embarrassed to go in public with those cheap plastic pieces of crap.

I subscribed through my iPad 2.5 years ago and suddenly I have no access to the issues that I had paid for. I contacted apple and nylon and was given the runaround from both. I loved getting this publication each month but their customer service was absolutely appalling. I recommend that no one subscribe to this magazine. They did not even try to resolve my issue. The absolute worst.

I can’t even give them one star. Never got what I ordered from them and no refund. They don’t even communicate with the customer. I have filed a complaint with paypal.

Nylon Magazine is a great magazine. It is directed towards young, trendy people. They have unique and interesting perspectives of fashion and beauty. I love reading their magazine. I am not subscribed to the magazine, but I do buy clothing and accessories from their
website.
I have received horrible service in regards to my orders. The first time was when I bought a t-​shirt and only received a confirmation email about the order and no email about the shipment status. I got the t-​shirt in the mail about 3 weeks later. They hand pack the items and use postal service packaging, something I don’t care for but noticed. I ordered something in early November and again received only a confirmation email about the order. I called the magazine number posted on the ‘contact us’ section of the website and used the extension to reach NylonShop about a week ago and they were closed. Earlier this week I tried again and again during business hours and left a message with my name, number and order number, but no one called back. I emailed them using the email posted also in ‘contact us’ yesterday and I still haven’t heard any response. I am very upset and more disappointed that such a great magazine company has poor customer service skills. I looked everywhere online for the director of nylon shop and only found the online website director Rebecca Daivs and she still is in no reach of contacting. Horrible services. I will never order anything from this website again.

The Nylon Shop is horrible. They have the worst customer service I have experienced. This is my first time to ever order something from their website and the last time. I’ve tried calling multiple times, leave voicemail and email. They never answer. I’ve already been charged for an item I never received and can’t get anyone to help me track my stuff.

I got a trial subscription to Nylon about two years ago. I’m not sure why they keep sending me new issues as I haven’t paid for it.
I feel like this magazine is geared towards teenage girls or women in their very early twenties who want to be hipsters. Nylon has a lot of style and not very much else. It makes Marie Claire look like the Atlantic Monthly.
I like to page through and look at the fashions to see what’s in style right now. My biggest problem is that the clothes are really unaffordable. Before I got the trial subscription, I was expecting that Nylon would be a good alternative to Vogue and Elle, but after a few issues, I realized that the clothes were the same prices as the brands in the average fashion magazine but they weren’t as pretty. There are a lot of outfits that cost 500 dollars but look like they came from a thrift store.
I don’t usually bother reading the articles but I can see where they would be interesting to some people. Usually at least half of the magazine is devoted to teenage actresses. The only piece in the newest issue that interested me is the profile of Guess.
The letters to the editor section usually makes me laugh. I’ve never seen a magazine so full of itself that it will consistently publish letters from readers about how wonderful the magazine is (I’ve noticed this every issue for the past two years).
The thing I really do like about the magazine is that it’s glossy and has really nice photography. It’s really pretty and stylish. There just really isn’t very much in the way of substance

My first review of a magazine. On a website that is meant for business reviews. But my opinion is so important that it transcends this barrier. So I begin.
Everyone familiar with this bundle of paper knows it as the Hipster Bible. Out of curiosity, I decided to blow about twenty bucks on a year subscription. I did not renew. The reasons for this are several-​fold.
1) I am not a hipster. Even though the first sign of being a hipster is, in fact, denial of being a hipster, I’m pretty sure I’m not a hipster. Mostly because I contribute something to society.
2) There is no coherence to this magazine. It has no goal. Is it a fashion magazine? A music magazine? A women’s magazine? The only way to describe the theme is this: It is a lifestyle guide for hipsters.
3) There is no better way to explain this next point than by an example. In one April 2011 issue, there is a two-​page spread of a picture of about 12 girls sitting at a dining table. Apparently this was a tea party of sorts. Along the margins of this picture appears each girl’s name and her occupation. Some of them even gave answers to such thought-​provoking questions as «What beauty product would you bring to a deserted island?» (I’m sure you will understand the irony of this question after a moment of consideration. Hint: DESERTED island.) Among their occupations were: DJ, stylist, designer, internet «entrepreneur», and… «girl about town». No seriously. Byrdie Bell, «girl about town.» The most well-​known girl of the group was Harley Viera-​Newton, who is some sort of beauty «ambassador.» So fine, whatever, I guess I’ll bite. I turn the page and…
Fashion spread.
WHAT?
No article, NOTHING. WHAT THE HELL. A huge picture of about 13 people I don’t know, and therefore don’t have any vested interest in, having a tea party, and they don’t even tell me what they talked about (in the case that I cared)? WHY? WHY?
4) The «travel section». Essentially, they send their people to some other country to hang out in hotels and restaurants and shit, and take pictures, and then come back to tell us all about it. They tell us which restaurants we should visit, what landmarks we should see, etc. And they do this like, every month. Excuse me? First, I’m not taking advice for traveling from a fucking magazine unless it’s a TRAVEL fucking MAGAZINE. Second, who do you think is using this information? Do you actually think people wait every month for their next issue to discover what country they will vacate to next? Ugh. I feel like I’m banging my head on the wall, so I’ll move on.
5) The letters to the editor. They all say the exact fucking same thing. I love you Nylon, I want to make love to you, we’ve been together for two years now. Haha, so punny. Amazing how absolutely none of the letters they receive are critical.
The music portion of the magazine is *alright*. Very hit or miss for me. A lot of hipster music is too frilly for my tastes, but occasionally I’ll find something worth my while in there. The fashion, as expected, is really just a cheat sheet on how the common pedestrian can spot a hipster in their habitat. Most of it you can’t afford. The celebrities they feature are also pretty hit or miss. I like about 75% of them, but then they’ll have like, Blake Lively on the cover. Or Emma Roberts. As much as they try to dig and pull a personality out of them, it just never seems to happen. But I guess that goes for most pop magazines nowadays. Le sigh.

Nylon is definitely one of the best as far as a hipster, fashion, music, pop cultural mag. I worked in a company where designers would buy magazines monthly for inspiration and Mylon became one of them every now and then. The covers are always awesome with great color and photography that catches your eye. They usually pick some pretty interesting people to feature. The articles arent bad but I tend to buy the magazine to flip through not to read. The fashions featured in it are up to date and for whats hot for now.

Music. Fashion. Done.
That’s pretty much what I care about these days.
Rewind: a few years back, a then-​dear friend introduced me to the world of Nylon, a subscription for my birthday, complete w the current issue, Jack White gracing the cover. Dude, M nailed it w that gift.
The articles are fresh, funny, past current. The photos are seductive, sexy, hot. I’d scream like a 13-​year old on that magical day when I got the next issue.
But then they went sans hard-​copy, and via email only. Download the mag? Really? turn a page w my mouse, really? I’m old, I like to fall asleep with a magazine in my hands, collapsed upon my face.
To this, they say «hit print*
Umm, not likely.
Subtract two stars.
I haven’t perused an issue since it started… I continue to get the email links, but, really, they just make me sad.

I seriously don’t know what I did before I had my subscription to NYLON. I wait for it to come every month like a kid on Christmas. It’s super hip, they feature great bands, the layout is awesome, the fashion is amazing, and they interview all the cool kids. It’s one of those things that you want to tell the world about, but also want to be greedy and keep all to yourself. I’m completely hooked.

yuck! how the hell did i get a subscription to this rag? is it because i dropped some dough at an urban outfitters? is this my punishment? well i need to be redeemed. this is not my scene, crowd, aesthetic, or interest. and for NYC it’s vanilla as hell! the tone, the fashion… basta! what bugs so much though, is the lovefest of letters to the editor. no complaints (of which i emailed once!), disagreements. nothing but sick, silly love from edgy hipsters. and to drop this thing on me for free? i am proud to say i’ll never be this cool.

I agree that Nylon can be hard to find in a lot of markets. That is why i strongly suggest getting a subscription.
This review may make me sound like a freak, but I am a HUGE Nylon Magazine fan. Each month when my Nylon issue arrives, I do a little happy dance and start reading it cover-​to-​cover right away. It is a little piece of New York that leaves me hungry for the city inbetween my visits to the Big Apple. I love the fashion and music coverage, so edgy. Nylon is the cool kid I always wanted to be like in high school, but can only read about from afar.

This is a fresh magazine, for a younger fashion-​hungry clientele. They also manage to include a decent collection of musicians, and each month their stylists have surprised me with an edgy look and feel that has kept me wanting more.
The only con is that their a little hard to find in some places, but seek and ye shall find, plus their on-​line too for a quick fix.