The Gentlewoman

I read a Jezebel post on new magazines which left me mildly curious about a magazine that called itself The Gentlewoman. An issue has made it's way to our shores (it appears to be a UK magazine and they reach here fairly quickly) so I picked up a copy.

It is not earth changing by any means, it is after all to some extent a fashion mag, but it isn't a bad read. As it's title suggests, it is rather elegant in tone. And its editorial sets the mood by championing "optimism, sincerity and ingenuity" as opposed to the "cynical cool of recent decades". The inside pages reveal a decent variety of concerns as opposed to the celeb, goss, fashion mix of many women's magazines.

I particularly liked a piece on Josephine Chime which is basically on girls who cycle (Modern Transport).  And the one on Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima. 

There is also the requisite amount of eye candy: slender girls in trendy clothes kind of thing though some are artfully composed as with a piece on two friends, one short and the other tall.  A few are in B&W and are rather elegant (that word again) and timeless.

The red flowers are of course not a part of the magazine.  I picked up these fallen rosea blooms on a walk and before they faded I wanted to capture some of their beauty. I like to think they both absorb the beauty of The Gentlewoman and give back some of their own.