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The Gentlewoman #30
Autumn and Winter 2024
Publisher: The Gentlewoman, 2024
Softcover, 320 pages, English
Size: 30x23cm
New in seal

The Gentlewoman celebrates modern women of style and purpose. Its fabulous biannual magazine offers a fresh and intelligent perspective on fashion that’s focused on personal style – the way women actually look, think and dress. Featuring ambitious journalism and photography of the highest quality, it showcases inspirational women through its distinctive combination of glamour, personality and warmth.

It’s the big three-o, readers. And your anniversary issue of The Gentlewoman is fronted by the feminist art icon and theatrical rocker Kembra Pfahler. The peerless vagina-positive performer, linchpin of New York City’s underground, and bandleader of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, appears in all her glory via a 14-page profile by Cristina Ruiz with photography by Jamie Hawkesworth. Styling is by, well, Kembra, whose cheery outlook, “I’m not naked, I’m wearing body paint”, is not shared in all quarters. Hence, Issue nº 30 of The Gentlewoman features two fabulous covers.

Joining Kembra is the director Janicza Bravo (Zola), bringing her “stress comedy” to the streets of Manchester for the BBC; the incomparable brand builder Tory Burch, who is relaxed about the Toryssance engulfing TikTok: “I didn’t realise I wasn’t cool before,” she says; the choreographer Oona Doherty, strutting in waterproofs, and the author Olivia Laing who explores utopian socialism — via gardening.

An exceptional array of fashions include: country manor swagger, two rounds of outerwear, and sartorial proposals for hybrid living from our own editor in chief. The fun Q&As herald good conversation with the footballer Lotte Wubben-Moy, the electronic musician Merry Lamb Lamb and the actors Fiona Shaw and Cush Jumbo. Break a leg, sisters!