The Gentlewoman - Issue 33

Joy! Issue n° 33 of The Gentlewoman is fronted by the ever-evolving cultural icon Solange Knowles. A megawatt pop star with a lending library and her own college course, Solange takes us on a thrilling tour of her radical imagination.

Also in your suitably souped-up issue: a mega-profile of the director’s director, Lynne Ramsay who, post-Die My Love, stands at a Hollywood crossroads. Rhian Teasdale, the frontwoman of Wet Leg, prepares for a long, hot summer; and Veronica Leoni sets out her seductive manifesto as the first female creative director of Calvin Klein. The fashions in brief: colour is back; see-through garments are excellent; the season’s bags are keepers. And the author Deborah Levy delivers a rousing treatise on swimwear.

There’s body talk with Myha’la, the breakout antiheroine of Industry. We pick the brain of the bake sale genius Natasha Pickowicz, who’s raising big bucks for good causes. Plus: a late-night confab in Italy with Dree Hemingway on Love Story and other sagas. Elsewhere, our essayist Ann Friedman rejects nostalgia in favour of desire. That peerless teen horror, Carrie, turns 50. And we celebrate a civilisation-sustaining piece of furniture: the trolley. Wherever she rolls, there’s hope, sisters!