Eleven days, five covers, one van. The SS26 editorial season compressed our spring into a fortnight of 5am call times — and produced the strongest set of covers this agency has placed in a single season.
Day one set the tone: Isadora Venn's Muse cover on the Atlantic coast, shot between weather fronts with no retouch brief. Day four belonged to Mathilde Aubert's twenty-page Velours fabrics story, the longest feature the title had commissioned all year.
Great covers are made in the schedule — the glamour is just what survives the call sheet.
Between the covers came the unglamorous middle: night shoots in unheated studios, a borrowed horsebox, three rescheduled flights, and a booker who learned to steam a gown in a moving car.
