When it comes to down it, gentlewomen are calling the shots. Being a gentlewoman means opening your mouth to speak about truth- or in Penny Martin's case - opening your pages. The fashion world, which is doused with gentlewomen has a sort of tight lipped, close mouthed reputation. Models close their mouthes to calories. Designers close their mouths in front of critics and editors. Saks Fifth Avenue closes to those who's pocket books don't exceed certain interests.
All of this closed business is only half true. Penny Martin's truth speaks volumes, ten to be exact. Penny Martin, Editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman Magazine blends together fashion ("what's in") and women's empowerment ("who's talking"). With Martin, both fashion and women are not simple, but complex, and one deserves to make the other feel better not worse.
If you associate fashion with putting women down, think again. And, if you assume that empowered women don't replenish some of their power with Céline or Tom Ford for good measure then you've certainly never read what Martin is getting at. She has a PHD in 1980's fashion magazines and a history with the Fawcett Society Women's Library, the world's biggest collection of women's magazines. Penny Martin comes equipped.
I am enthralled with The Gentlewoman, which celebrates woman at any age, sex, race, shape, sexual orientation. The magazine is a place to see fashion styled with aliveness rather than lifelessness. It's a conversation with women who are arrested with style, grace and direction. Martin as an editor never leaves you torn between two subjects seemingly at odds with one another: couture fashion and women who open their mouths about truth and are likely too busy living their purpose to do anything but be fabulous humanbeings. I love that Martin gives us a fashion magazine with real life narrative and body. The gentlewoman can have it all in 2015, as long as editors like Penny Martin keep paving the way to calling shots that matter.
I am enthralled with The Gentlewoman, which celebrates woman at any age, sex, race, shape, sexual orientation. The magazine is a place to see fashion styled with aliveness rather than lifelessness. It's a conversation with women who are arrested with style, grace and direction. Martin as an editor never leaves you torn between two subjects seemingly at odds with one another: couture fashion and women who open their mouths about truth and are likely too busy living their purpose to do anything but be fabulous humanbeings. I love that Martin gives us a fashion magazine with real life narrative and body. The gentlewoman can have it all in 2015, as long as editors like Penny Martin keep paving the way to calling shots that matter.
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