editorial — Atelier Kovář

Salt Index.

An eight-page beauty story about texture and absence — skin, sheer black, and the colour of a struck match.

Client
Atelier Kovář
Role
Art Direction · Editorial Design
Year
2025
Category
editorial
Location
Praha
A studio beauty portrait, hair in motion, sheer black fabric on grey.

Notes

A story for Atelier Kovář built around a deliberately narrow vocabulary: matte skin, one sheer black layer, and a grey that refuses to commit. The “index” is exactly that — a catalogue of surfaces, ordered like swatches.

I designed the layout as a grid that keeps breaking its own rule: a strict baseline with one image per spread allowed to escape it. The single warm accent — the orange of a struck match — is the only heat in eight cold pages.

Credits

Photography
Vera Hálek
Hair
Tomáš Dvořák
Words
R. Saint-Clair

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