Skindelle Stories

Ibiza: Day to Night and the Dress Code Nobody Explains

Ibiza is not what it became in the 1990s. That version of the island, the superclub version, still exists and still packs in its audience. But the island that serious visitors have been coming to s...

Puglia: Masseria Courtyards and Olive Grove Evenings

Puglia is the region you go to after you have done Rome, Florence, and the Amalfi Coast. After Rome, which is about the density of history. After Florence, which is about the art and the crowds and...

Dubai: Resort Dressing in Year-Round Heat

Dubai is not the Middle East in the way that Marrakech is the Middle East or Petra is the Middle East. It is a city that built itself, largely, in the last forty years on the premise that no constr...

French Riviera: Evening Outfits That Travel Light

The Third Category The Riviera has a specific register for evening. It is not formal. It is not casual. It occupies a third category that the French have not named because they assume you already ...

Lima: The City That Dresses for Dinner in the Fog

The fog that changes what you wear Lima is the only major city in the Americas built on a coastal desert where it almost never rains but almost never stops being damp. The Humboldt Current runs no...

Santorini: Caldera Evenings and What to Wear

Santorini is the island everybody has already decided about before they arrive. The photographs have done their work: the blue domes, the white walls, the sunset over the caldera that turns the who...