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Grooming Masters

One brand, two territories. The Embassy — the Grooming Masters flagship on Krunska, Belgrade’s street of embassies — and the e-commerce that carries the same counter online. Both designed by Monolith, both working from the same brief: guide the choice, earn the trust, keep the customer.

Client Grooming Masters, a Monolith Brands division
Region Serbia — Belgrade
Scope Retail identity & store graphics; e-commerce strategy, UX design & build
Deliverables The Embassy flagship at Krunska 42, web shop, Club+ loyalty, Grooming Supply B2B
Part I / Krunska 42, Beograd_

The store

Krunska is the street where the world’s embassies stand in Belgrade. When Grooming Masters opened its flagship among them, the name wrote itself: The Embassy — a store that holds rank with its neighbors, and holds men’s care to the same standard.

01

The brief

An embassy is the most serious address a country keeps. Grooming Masters wanted that standing for men’s care — and a flagship worthy of the name.

Grooming Masters brings the world’s benchmark barber brands to Serbia — Reuzel, Captain Fawcett, Uppercut Deluxe, Bullfrog, and Keune 1922. These are products bought on advice: hold, shine, scent, skin type. The Embassy had to give that advice an address with real standing — the counter of a legation, not a stockroom with a till. Monolith designed the retail identity end to end: the interior graphic system, the signage, the pricing, the windows.

A staff member hanging Grooming Masters paper bags on the pegboard wall behind the counter at The Embassy
Fig. 01The Embassy — stocking the wall at Krunska 42
02

A sovereign state of men’s care

Embassies have always stood for something high-end — seals, protocol, a state presenting its best. The Embassy claims that rank for grooming: a sovereign state of men’s care, seated among the real ones.

The identity carries the claim with a straight face. The GM globe sits in the window like a state seal; on the wall, fluorescent tubes back a plexi panel that declares “Sovereign State of Men’s Care” the way a chancery plaque declares its name. Nothing shouts — embassies never do. You know you’re entering serious territory before you touch the door.

REUZELROTTERDAM, NLEST. 2013 CAPTAIN FAWCETTKING’S LYNN, UKEST. 2010 UPPERCUT DELUXEGOLD COAST, AUEST. 2009 BULLFROGMILANO, ITEST. 2013 KEUNE 1922SOESTERBERG, NLEST. 1922
Sovereign State of Men's Care — the neon manifesto beside Klein-blue shelves of product
The window from the street — neon tubes behind the etched Sovereign State of Men's Care lettering and globe The Klein-blue counter at The Embassy, Grooming Masters set in white on its face
Fig. 02The manifesto in neon, the window that announces it, the counter that keeps it
03

A store you can read

The floor serves two publics at once, and both need to find their way without asking.

For retail customers, it is the one address in Belgrade where the world’s barber brands stand together under one roof. For professional barbers, it is a showroom — the place to hold a product, smell it, weigh it against what they already use — before ordering by the case through the separate Grooming Supply wholesale portal, not at a counter. One room, two doors into the same brand: that logic became the brief for Part II.

New Arrivals signage wrapping the corner of the shop floor at The Embassy
Brand names on the glass, the GM globe relief behind Reuzel pomades priced clearly on the shelf Bullfrog fragrances displayed on the white shelving
Fig. 03The floor — every brand named, priced, and easy to find
Backlit white shelving — Captain Fawcett and Keune 1922 ranges under strip light
Fig. 04The library wall — brands shelved like editions, lit like exhibits
Part II / groomingmasters.rs_

The e-commerce

The Embassy set the standard: give the customer everything a knowledgeable clerk would — the pick, the price, the reason — without a queue. That became the brief for groomingmasters.rs: carry Krunska 42’s standards online, and answer for the customers who never walk in.

04

Taking the counter online

Online, there is no one to ask. The website had to be the man behind the counter — not a catalogue with a cart bolted on.

groomingmasters.rs carries the store’s DNA piece by piece: the Klein blue, the plain-spoken Serbian, prices stated as plainly online as they are on the shop floor. But it also had to do what a good clerk does in person — guide a customer from “I want to look a certain way” to the right jar, explain what makes it worth the money, and reward him for coming back.

groomingmasters.rs
groomingmasters.rs — the full homepage, from campaign hero to FAQ
Fig. 05groomingmasters.rs — the storefront. Give the frame a moment; it scrolls on its own
groomingmasters.rs/odaberite-pomadu
Odaberite pravu pomadu za sebe — matte and high-shine paths with Sjaj and Hold scores per product
Fig. 06The pomade picker — two looks, scored on Sjaj & Hold
05

A barber’s advice, encoded

The customer doesn’t pick a product — he picks a look. The store works backwards from there.

The picker opens with two portraits — natural matte or high shine — and each path lists its products scored on two chips: Sjaj (shine) and Hold, out of ten. The same chips reappear on product pages, so a “Hold 9/10” means the same thing everywhere in the store. It turns the most advice-dependent category — styling — into a comparison a customer can make alone, in seconds.

groomingmasters.rs/proizvodi/balzam-za-bradu-john-petruccis-nebula
Product page — from options and price down to the O brendu editorial
Fig. 07Product page — the price lives on the button
06

A product page that answers first

Every decision the customer has to make sits in one column, in the order he’ll make it.

Size options are pill toggles with sold-out states greyed rather than hidden. The add-to-cart button carries the exact price of the selected variant, so the number you tap is the number you pay. And below the fold, the fragrance is described the way a barber would sell it — bergamot, grapefruit, dark coffee, cedar — with the Sjaj/Hold chips closing the description.

07

Club+ — loyalty you can watch grow

Most loyalty programs live in fine print. Club+ is the first thing a member sees when he signs in: every dinar spent is a point earned, and the discount builds in front of him.

No conversion tables, no stamps — one dinar is one point. Points from the last 90 days add up toward three tiers, drawn as three circles: −5% unlocks at 5.000, −10% at 10.000, −15% at 15.000. The tier you hold is lit, the ones ahead sit behind padlocks, and the current reward is restated in plain words — “on your next order you get −5%” — so it is never abstract.

And the balance runs across both territories. Points earned at the Krunska counter and points earned on the site land in the same account — one brand, two doors, one balance.

groomingmasters.rs/moj-nalog
GM Club+ on the account page — three discount tiers as circles and the live 90-day point balance
Fig. 08GM Club+ — the whole mechanic on one screen: three circles, one balance
1 DINAR = 1 POENNO CONVERSION TABLES NIVO 1 — −5%5.000 POENAUNLOCKED NIVO 2 — −10%10.000 POENA NIVO 3 — −15%15.000 POENA 90 DANAROLLING WINDOW STORE + WEBONE BALANCE
The GM Club+ card — embossed GM seal and Club+ wordmark on a blue-to-chartreuse gradient
GM Club+ / member card No plastic — lives in the account
Fig. 09The Club+ card — no plastic, one balance, lives online
groomingmasters.rs/proizvodi/balzam-za-bradu-john-petruccis-nebula#o-brendu
O brendu — the Captain Fawcett origin story told as an editorial on the product page
Fig. 10O brendu — every product page ends with the brand’s story
08

Selling brands, not SKUs

Scroll past the price and the page turns into an editorial: who makes this, and why it’s worth 2.950 dinars.

Every product page closes with “O brendu” — the brand told properly, with its founder, its workshop, and its connection to Serbia. Captain Fawcett’s page tells the story of Richie Finney mixing his first moustache wax in an old bean tin. It’s the neon register from the store wall, expanded to full length: for a business built on premium imports, this section carries the margin — it explains the price instead of apologizing for it.

groomingmasters.rs/grooming-supply
Grooming Supply — the full B2B pitch page: hero, network numbers, benefits, and testimonials
Fig. 11Grooming Supply — the trade channel, in numbers
09

A second store for the trade

Grooming Supply: the same platform, re-aimed at the people who buy by the case.

Barbershops and salons get their own portal — 250+ professional products across eight leading brands, wholesale pricing, next-day delivery in Belgrade, and no minimum-order fine print. The pitch page sells it with working barbers’ testimonials and three numbers, including the one that matters most: 180+ barbershops and salons already in the network.

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