Issue # 28 arrives to funk up your autumn with Chaka Khan as this season’s sizzling cover star. The beloved Modernisms Q&As serve up hearty conversation with the climate scientist Friederike Otto, the respected curator Oriole Cullen, the actor Lydia West and Mayfair’s favourite fine-dining double act, Silvia and Ursula Perberschlager. THE GENTLEWOMAN’S intrepid writers were dispatched far and wide to profile the remarkable women of the now, among them, the golfing superstar Lydia Ko, the artist Maggi Hambling, Hollywood dynamo Alia Shawkat and fashion critic-turned-flower farmer, Cathy Horyn.