The Gentlewoman – Number 30: Autumn and Winter 2024

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.

On the agenda inside: Kembra’s self-coined punk philosophy of “availabism” –
making the best use of whatever is available to create art; the perniciousness of the
beauty standards she seeks to subvert; and her undimmable certainty that the future
is female. Whatever the medium, Kembra is one of life’s great communicators: “I’m
interested in saying hello to everybody.”

Language: English