Berlin Gray, Her Anything But

The clouds over Berlin right now are the specific shade of gray that feels personal—like the sky decided to make a point. Spring keeps threatening to happen and then pulling back, leaving the city in that dull holding pattern where even the light feels apologetic.

And then Alejandra Guilmant turns up in Playboy and, look, the sky can do whatever it wants. She’s the kind of person who makes you remember that the world still contains genuinely beautiful things, that not every centerfold is a faded reality TV contestant doing the magazine a favor. Guilmant is a model who actually looks like she’s enjoying herself, which shouldn’t be remarkable but somehow is. The shoot does what good photography does: makes a gray Tuesday feel slightly less pointless.