Ewan McGregor for Nylon Guys Magazine

Posted on Dec 8, 2011 in Fashion

“Oh,” we exclaimed as one, upon viewing these thumbnails, “Let’s throw some Ewan up on the blog. He’s always so cute, no matter what he’s wearing. The ladies and ladyboys will love it.”

Ewan McGregor for Nylon Guys Magazine Ewan McGregor featured in the January 2012 issue of Nylon Guys magazine photographed by Marvin Scott Jarrett and styled by Brady Cunningham.

Yikes. Forget that plan.

Not that he stopped looking cute; it would be hard to make that happen. But he sure isn’t, shall we say, styled to his best self here, is he? We’re trying to figure out the thinking here. “Let’s make him look dirty and crazy and put him in nondescript, unflattering clothes this time! NO ONE will be expecting THAT!”

Ewan McGregor for Nylon Guys Magazine Top by Rogan. Pants by Neil Barrett. Watch by Rolex.

Ewan McGregor for Nylon Guys Magazine Vest by Duvetica. Sweater by R13. T-shirt by Cheap Monday. Pants by Neil Barrett. Shoes by Dr. Marten. Watch by Rolex.

Okay, he’s scaring us a little bit here. He looks like he’s marking his territory.

[Photo Credit: Marvin Scott Jarrett for nylonguysmagazine.tumblr.com, thefashionspot.com]

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Aly Light

Ha, he looks hilariously uncomfortable in all those shots! “Should I… should I do something? I’ll just.. put my leg up on this wall. Uh. How’s that?”
- Anonymous
  
  I think he’s kicking the set down in protest
Anonymous

What the hell is wrong with him? Is this some sort of Trainspotting retrospective?
- Anonymous
  
  That was my thought as well. They’retrying to recreate the Trainspotting image that made him famous. But it is not a look that ages well.
  - angela rose
    
    tragic. I saw the thumbnail and my heart fluttered. then I wondered why they wanted him to look 20.
- Terence Ng
  
  I figured that’s what it was. Getting him back to British punk druggie roots.
Anonymous

in the orange-shirt picture, it looks like his trousers have an elastic waist. maybe drawstring. that’s awful.

the shininess of that blue parka is awful – it looks like an extremely cheap winter coat from my elementary school days (1980s, of course).
- http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz
  
  Memories. I can HEAR that coat right now…
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234087433 Jen Freeman
    
    swish swish swish
- http://www.facebook.com/ann.verwiebe Ann VerWiebe
  
  I’m pretty sure that shiny puffy vests are on trend. Don’t ask me why…
  - Anonymous
    
    Could it be the horrible Old Navy commercials of kids getting put in a machine to get the puffy in their coats?
    - Anonymous
      
      Is it just me getting crankier, or do the Old Navy Holiday commercials get more annoying each year?
      - http://twitter.com/saturnwings Alexis
        
        Probably both. The Old Navy holiday commercials have gotten more annoying, which has the effect of making one crankier. It’s a vicious cycle.
      - Anonymous
        
        Their commercials have always been annoying. I don’t know how they stay in business, truthfully.
- Anonymous
  
  Orange shirt picture: Ewan before coffee.
- ferdinanda
  
  OH! I had that jacket! Navy blue, and plastic-y, with a sad white lining. Shaped like a box. (both me and jacket, actually, so it worked great).
http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd

What have they DONE?!!!!!! How could they do that to someone as attractive, adorable and dead sexy as Ewan? Man I bet he’s pissed.
- Anonymous
  
  Well, he sure looks pissed.
  - http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd
    
    Sure does, Don’t he? “So Ewan, we’re gonna style you like some crazed 20 something tweaker dude who hooks on the side to pay his habit. Cool with you?”
    - muzan-e
      
      See, it’s funny you say this because in that second shot, with the orange shirt? He’s a dead ringer for this bloke who bummed a smoke from me one very early morning, in a diner just down the road from a shooting gallery.
      - http://twitter.com/ILikeShiny Cindi Williams
        
        Challenge: write a short story that uses this set-up. This bloke who bummed a smoke from me one very early morning, in a diner just down the road from a shooting gallery. I’ll bet Mazzy Star “Fade Into You” was playing on the jukebox.
- Anonymous
  
  Perhaps the photographer hasn’t seen a movie since Trainspotting? Or maybe he blames Ewan for the bad parts of Star Wars.
  - http://joyouslifesf.wordpress.com Kiltdntiltd
    
    The only one to blame for the bad parts of Star Wars is Mr Lucas Hisself. IMHO
Anonymous

Yuck! Dingy and creepy, with enough product in his hair to season a wok.
http://twitter.com/shinobi42 Shinobi

For a second I thought this was suddenly much hotter looking Ricky Gervais. That’s how bad he looks in these photos.
- Anonymous
  
  Hah! He does. Oh, poor, poor Ewan.
- Anonymous
  
  I CAN’T UNSEE IT
Anonymous

Ewwwww, Ewan.
Anonymous

He looks like he’s about to cry in the orange shirt photo. Can’t say I blame him.
Anonymous

His hair looks awful! I’ll just pretend I didn’t see these.
Carey Cauthen

I think the expressions on his face say it all: sad, confused, slightly pissed off.
Anonymous

agreed, this is not his finest work. He barely even looks like himself. eep.
Anonymous

The pic in the cover looks nice… but the one with the orange shirt, what happened there?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Ailsa-Martin/644946901 Ailsa Martin
  
  At a guess, they rang his doorbell at 2am, and then quickly snapped a picture of him half-asleep still in pyjamas as soon as he answered.
  - Anonymous
    
    Egzackly!
http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz

You think there’s a “Nylon Ladies (And Ladyboys)” magazine somewhere with CUTE pictures of Ewan? We can only hope…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2CNDPMVO4W23R5TVC2QMTJ5BZE Heather

I love Ewan… I want better for him than this.
Anonymous

Second picture in the orange shirt. He looks like he just woke up with a BITCH of a hangover.
Anonymous

I like him on the cover, but he scares me on the other 2 pics
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1589131702 Jenna Gordon

how in the hell did these people pull off making ewan mcgregor look unattractive? i feel like this is a sign of the apocalypse.
Anonymous

No, just no. I love him, so this makes me sad. It looks like they randomly woke him up at 5 am and dragged him to a photo shoot without his prior knowledge or consent.

Yikes. He can look so much better.
http://cheekypinky.wordpress.com/ Rebecca

What did they do to him?!?
http://profiles.google.com/shannonlstewart Shannon Stewart

I seem to remember him not being the cleanest or neatest of guys in Trainspotting, and he was still hot.

And is he ever going to age? He still looks the same as he did in Trainspotting!
Anonymous

So 90s, hip dad, Zoolander.
Lulu Lafurge

Is that a tattoo peeking out of right sleeve in the orange-shirt pix? Or is it a sparrow? Anyway, except for the hair, I actually like that photo. I guess I like ‘em surly.
- http://twitter.com/ms_smartiepants Beth M.
  
  sparrow? I think it’s a tarantula!
Anonymous

What in the HELL is this? He looks beyond terrible – like he styled his hair with a weed whacker. Or maybe a fork, like in The Little Mermaid.

And I can’t with that second picture – all “I’m going to beat you up” on the top and “I’m going to brunch with my mom” on the bottom…
Anonymous

Going for the Teddy Boy look here. Is he pimping a movie role set in that era?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001637020912 Zula Khramov

I don’t think any of that is his fault, but stylist’s..and photographer’s…and editor’s… it’s so steady horrible…
Anonymous

He’s in a prison movie set in 1933, right? “I should never ‘a’ fallen for Pretty Boy Floyd’s main squeeze, cause when she ratted me out, he dropped a dime on me and I got sent up the river,” he sneers. “But I’m packing heat and I’m gonna crack out of this joint and catch a freighter to Antarctica where there ain’t no G-Men and no double-dealing dames. I’ll rob every bank in Antarctica, I will. That’ll show ‘em.”

That’s the only way I can explain the haircut, the general demeanor, the mug shot facial expressions and the bizarre puffy coat paired with a peeing-on-snow pose.
Anonymous

Why did they style him to look like Justin Beiber? Embarrassing.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Austen-Jane/100002245814326 Austen Jane

That last one is “You really want me to put my leg up like this? Really?”
- http://profiles.google.com/misslauraschultz Laura Schultz
  
  He’s saying “Ok, I’ll put my leg up here like this, but one more shot and I’m out of here, guys….”
http://profiles.google.com/misslauraschultz Laura Schultz

Wow, that’s lame. And I really like him. He also looks SUPER uncomfortable with this situation… Hate the haircut…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jessica-TallGirl-Freeman/1043623567 Jessica TallGirl Freeman

Well congrats Nylon. You’ve managed to show us how to take a gorgeous man and make him look ugly AND ridiculous. Bravo.
- Lori
  
  Seriously. Every single person responsible for this should be fired.
muzan-e

Awesome. Saving every single picture to file right now, in case either of my broodlings decide that they want to be A Big Star.

“But darling! Look at what Hollywood did to him!”
Anonymous

Too bad – they made him look like a modern day vampire. He normally looks fab. He doesn’t make my ladyboy parts tingle, but I really like him as an actor.
http://twitter.com/londonpenguin Teresa MacDonald

Oh my. For me, his physical charm lies entirely in his megawatt smile, which makes his entire face light up and me go weak at the knees. How could they not let him smile? He looks like just any ol’ scrag off the street.
Anonymous

He looks pissed off and who could blame him?
Sara__B

Is this really Ewan McGregor? Facial expression (just one), hair, and poses are so unflattering. I don’t understand this at all.
Anonymous

Is it just me, or does he look like Kenneth Branagh here?
- Anonymous
  
  not just you!
sweetlilvoice

Seriously he looked hotter as a junkie in Trainspotting. What a waste of hot sexy man. I had my Thornbirds moment when he was a priest in Angles and Demons.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234087433 Jen Freeman

I adore Ewan, and usually find him sexy as hell. But I can’t help but laugh at these pics. What’s up with the Jimmy Neutron hair? And the intensely uncomfortable facial expressions? He looks like he’s afraid the photographer is about to rape him.
http://twitter.com/taijuuuh Taija HU!

WHY, NYLON?! I love Ewan, for a long time I thought he could pull off _anything_.. I want to go back to that naïve way of thinking.
Anonymous

That is odd. This makes him, the clothes, the accessories all look very unappealing.
Anonymous

Did he turn into Charlie Sheen when we weren’t looking?
http://twitter.com/Deac82 Mike M.

Dear Editors of Nylon Magazine,

Trainspotting came out in 1996. You are 15 years too late for this editorial.

Thanks,
Mike
http://twitter.com/delysia_lafosse Delysia LaFosse

He looks like he needs to vomit. I can empathize; seeing Ewan McGregor so aggressively uglied down makes me want to vomit, too.
Diana Martinez

Wow, you have to actually WORK to make that man look bad…. I guess they worked pretty hard! Ugh.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=49702581 Susan Bullard Mayer

Don’t care. Still hot.
http://www.celestiae.net Isy
http://www.celestiae.net Isy
Anonymous

It’s not the clothes. He’s just not cute. Period.
Anonymous

It’s not the clothes. He’s just not cute. Period.
Anonymous

Does he always look so pinch-lipped. Not feeling a thing for this guy. Orange is not his color, either.
Mariah J

I love me some Ewan…so I’m pretty mad at what they did to him
Anonymous

Not liking this editorial at all. Not liking the term “ladyboys” either.

I know, I know…lighten up. Don’t worry…I’m light.
Anonymous

In the orange shirt picture he looks hungover and about to puke. Wow, that makes me hot (not).
MilaXX

Don’t care how nondescript the clothes, it Ewan & I’d still hit that.
Leslie Streeter

Noooo. Bad use of a fine man.
Rand Ortega

It’s still Ewan, so I love it/him. It’s ridiculous, but he’s still the gorgeous dad of 5 daughters & a wife who will probably get something sparkly from this. So, (quoting Lauren/Catherine Tate) “I’m not bothered”.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMLK23QK6C7NMLMVVYA5POXKJY WhiteMage

holy vanilla ice hair. ick.
Cathy S

I wouldn’t have thought you could make him look horrible, but he looks horrible. He’s soooooo unhappy, like “please get this shit out of here.”
Anonymous

oh lawdy. that hair
- Anonymous
  
  Seriously. Ewan, I hope they paid you a LOT.
iCouture

Ewwww, me no likey!! I want old Ewan back, now! The pic in the orange top looks like a mug shot. Gross.
http://twitter.com/susanpcollier Susan Collier

What the…?
Anonymous

…yikes.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1045295912 Charles Purdy

That haircut is very popular at the Lexington (SF lesbian bar near my house), but it’s definitely for young people. Those clothes look like they were scavenged from a charity-donations bin. Everyone’s fired! (On a side note, have you seen “Beginners”? So sweet, and Ewan is so adorable in it. I love Ewan.)
Anonymous

Wtf did they do to my Ewan???
Hetha Innis

What’s with the hair?! Take us back to him riding his bicycle around town. Now THAT was off the charts cute.
J Dreesen

did anyone see the shot of him in People’s Sexiest Man Alive issue? TOTES. SMOKIN’. looks like a completely different guy in these pics, unfortunately.
http://twitter.com/ryenerman rynerman

What the hell just happened there?
http://twitter.com/ryenerman rynerman

What the hell just happened there?
Anonymous

Tragic.
http://jessieliz.wordpress.com/ Super Red

NOOOO!! I need eye bleach. Someone get me the link to him riding on a bike with a puppy, STAT!
Anonymous

Are they afraid of making him look good in a “guy’s” magazine (as differentiated from a “men’s” magazine)? These are just gratuitously awful pics of a usually adorable man.
- Anonymous
  
  Wait till they get a hold of Hugh Jackman. they are going ot have to work hard to make ugly stick to him.
maddy lucas

What the hell? It looks like they had to work really hard to make him look so unattractive. I’m impressed, he’s a good lookin guy.
Anonymous

Oh fellas. These aren’t so bad. They’re the Ewan one would see were he one’s live-in honey. Though I do think one might be trying to edit his clothing choices a bit. (Probably unsuccessfully. Once things get serious you have no hope of changing anything. Sigh.)
Anonymous

They’re definitely trying to steer him towards hipsterdom here, but the problem is that he’s a 40 year old adorable Scotsman. It doesn’t go with “hipster”.
Anonymous

again, WHO is directing men’s styling now days?????……it’s like some huge joke…
http://twitter.com/MandySCG MandyJane

Wow, never expected him to look so bad.
Anonymous

He looks pretty unhappy – with reason. Yucky photos
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3AJ237ND3GAHDQJZ4TLCO4WLRA Emily

Wow. I can’t believe they did that to him. He looks so angry and nothing is flattering.
Anonymous

his hair is wrong. and he needs a facial. and i still love him but he needs a shave and a psychotherapy session.
Anonymous

i just watched him in Beginners where he was most assuredly adorable, i have no rational explanation for this mess…..
http://www.manoneileen.com Manon Eileen

Ugh, too 90ies. Horrible. It’s a clear Trainspotting reference though – which was shot in the 90ies. :p
Anonymous

It’s Nylon, I don’t expect to see anything well done.
- Anonymous
  
  Too right.
Anonymous

No. Just … oh, god. just, No.
Anonymous

OH NO WHAT HAVE THEY DONE. He was my high school fake boyfriend. I’m just going to think really hard about Moulin Rouge and try to forget this ever happened.
Anonymous

I love him…. no matter what….. but yeah awful clothes, terrible pictures, and WTF hair…..takes alot of work to make that FINE man look ordinary….
Anonymous

That is one strange photo shoot. He looks simple… or else he was really pissed-off about the ugly clothes they gave him to wear.
Anonymous

Wow. I don’t get this at all. How in hell did they make HIM look so utterly disgusting and ridiculous? Nylon is Ewan’s Kryptonite.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513945580 Megan Patterson

Plus he like looks like he has no neck for some reason? What’s going on there?
Anonymous

the height of that hair gives him Lithgow head
Presumptuous Insect

Hmmm. Yeah, I’ll take Viggo any day.
http://twitter.com/SparklyCasanova UglyCasanova

It’s the hair, tis ugly.
Anonymous

These pics are awful! The hair is all wrong for him. The clothes are ugly, except for the orange-y shirt in the middle shot. His torso looks pretty good in that, but if you go above the neck…ack, it’s that hair again! It takes real “skillz” to make a handsome man like Ewan look this bad.
Anne Lucchesi

Ugh. I need to go look at him in Down With Love, stat! This is exactly why I am not hip enough for NYLON.
http://twitter.com/xuvious Advaita Waikar

He looks a bit pissed in the 2nd one. Can’t really blame him.
http://www.facebook.com/fenrulin Jenny Lin

I can’t resist putting my ’6 degrees of separation story’ out htere– my brother attended his sister-in-laws wedding but Ewan wasn’t there because he was shooting for Star Wars in Australia at the time.
Anonymous

I wish I could unsee that.
Anonymous

Let’s never do this to his hair again, yes?
Anonymous

I was forced to google naked pics of him just so I could unsee these and remember why I love him.
Anonymous

TLo, you’re going to have to post the next good photoshoot of him you come across to make up for this…
Anonymous

Love his expression in the first and second photos: Not. Amused. With the choices.
Anonymous

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That second one’s a mugshot, right? No, really…

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