The Gentlewoman celebrates a decade of fabulousness with special mini-edition
Small is beautiful when it comes to the inventive mini-edition of The Gentlewoman, a greatest hits package celebrating the exemplary British magazine’s “10 years of fabulousness”.
During that time (after all print had been roundly declared as “dead” in 2010), editor Penny Martin and her team have consistently confounded expectations around independent print publishing and the traditional editorial stances of periodicals aimed at female readers.
Crisp presentation marked out The Gentlewoman from the very start (props must go to Veronica Ditting, the art director for most of that period and now the creative director). Since the first issue in March 2010 the magazine has successfully blended the no-nonsense with the glamorous to offer a showcase for the world’s leading journalists and photographers, which is one of the reasons we chose to feature it in the exhibition PRINT! Tearing It Up at Somerset House the summer before last.
I recommend the mini-edition – which measures just 8cm x 6cm, and, with 584 pages, is 3cm thick – and not just because of the natty format which is already making it an Instagram favourite. This is a fascinating compendium of some of the best writing and photography of recent times, with a dizzying range of subjects who collectively speak to what it is to be a woman in the 21st century.
Copies are available here.