Nylon Blogs

Temperatures in NYC reached 90 only a week or so ago, and yet, summer is already winding down.

At NYLON, our summer soccer team has played its last game, our fashion closet is loaded with heavy winter coats, and visits to the ice cream truck parked outside our office have dropped.

But just because it’s nearly September doesn’t mean you can’t bring a bit of summer with you into fall.

New Universe, the second album from Desolation Wilderness, is like a hazy August day in sonic form.

There are lulling vocals, dreamy guitar lines, and pulsing drum beats which sound like they were recorded on the bottom of a lake.

Which is where you’ll want to be when you listen to this… xxRebecca

Thanks to a weekend weather pattern that alternated between unbearable humidity and drenching rainstorms, I managed to see not one, not two, but three movies this weekend.

(500) Days of Summer was annoying.

Inglourious Basterds was fun.

But what really left an impression on me was The Headless Woman. Argentine director Lucrecia Martel managed to outdo herself with this cinematic enigma, a film which leaves you with more questions than it answers.

The story sounds straightforward: While driving down a desolate road, Veronica hits into something. Though there’s no body, she’s convinced she’s killed someone – and spends the rest of the movie coming to terms with this. But unlike your average Hollywood flick, there’s very little blood and gore – or, for that matter, a tidy ending. Instead, Martel goes by “less is more,” allowing the silences and slow shots to make the audience nervous.

The result is truly a masterpiece – the best film I’ve seen all summer and, quite possibly, all year. So please, don’t wait for a rainy day to see The Headless Woman. xxRebecca

PS: Also, best movie poster of the year? You can pick one up for $20 at NYC’s Film Forum.

“Dear Faran!

While vacationing in beautiful Florida, I headed to Krustyland, in Universal Studios.

When I saw this purposely graffitied on the fence I knew I had to send it to you.

Hope you get a kick out of it!

xo Gabby”

Very silly.  And a little too perfect for the launch of our September TV issue!

If you have graffiti, or pink donuts, send it to faran@nylonmag.com

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Dear Madewell,

Thank you for taking the oversized flannel trend usually seen on our boyfriends’ floors and turning it into something a little easier to sport in the office:

This plaid flannel shirt dress available now.

It’s purple and red – always a good color combo – and easy to layer over tights and boots, and under a cropped leather jacket or schoolboy blazer.

And for those of you who don’t have to visit the office quite yet, take note -

Madewell gives 15% off this and every purchase with a valid student ID.

Or, you know, a student ID from 2001 that’s still in good condition.

Not that we’d ever suggest you cheat like that

We knew Waldorf’s hard landing at NYU could be tricky, but we had no idea it would be so chic.

At left, check out Leighton Meester in quite an ensemble, including a Jack Vartanian bat necklace, short shorts, a cashmere wrap, and the coveted gladiator sandals from Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony.

Judging by this outfit, we anticipate the following plotlines:

a) Blair meets an indie rocker in her anthropology class, sneaks him into the Jane Hotel, and is about to “get a room” when she spots Little J dancing on a table with Chuck and loses all possible libido.

b) Blair gets a second-semester acceptance to Yale, but turns it down because their students don’t know the difference between Gucci and Pucci, and therefore can’t really be that smart.

c) Blair quits school to work for Mary Kate Olsen.

d) Blair walks down Mott Street looking for a boutique when some guy stops her with a gun and says, “Give me your purse… and your Manolo Blahniks.”

Oh wait, actually…

That’s already happened…

Just not on GG.

Yesterday, I went to buy a pair of Alice + Olivia booties from Payless.

They’re a massive chain, and surprisingly the $45 shoes are the most expensive thing there, so I figured it would be a fairly easy mission.

Wrong.

I had to invade two different stores just to get the boots, which have basically disappeared from all of New York City and – this is the disturbing part – totally sold out online!

When I put on the pair – the only size 7 left downtown, according to the salesgirl – I figured out why.

These things give you an extra five inches, look like a Charlotte Gainsbourg orgasm, and don’t hurt or wobble when you walk.   In fact, I even ran, just to see if I could survive (I did, easily).

Now all I need is approval from NYLON shoe guru Rajni, and I’ll be wearing them every day of Fashion Week!

xo faran

Ooh, another cover from Ruben Tolendo’s redesigned classics has emerged!

This one is Pride and Prejudice, which contains the same Jane Austen inside, but a modern take on the cover art outside.

Not quite as fun as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

(Or Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters)

But way more acceptable for literary purists.

Each book retails for $16.

We’re thinking of buying them all, ripping off the covers, framing them, and hanging them over our bed as a pseudo-pretentious-but-also-really-cute-homage.

You know, the kind of thing Emma Woodhouse would do.

There are only a few things you can watch on repeat, constantly, without wanting sedation.

Those things include Mean Girls, The Real World: London, the music video for “Barcelona,” anything by Michel Gondry, and of course, Clueless.

So maybe you’d like to know something really special:

Clueless is on iTunes this week only for $4.99

Buy it.

Play it.

It’s, like, amazing.