Skindelle Stories
Valletta: Honey Limestone and Grand Harbour Sunsets
Valletta is the smallest capital city in the European Union, roughly one kilometre by half a kilometre, built on a peninsula between two ...
London Summer: Ascot, Wimbledon, and Rooftop Season
Six Weeks in June and July London has a season. It is not metaphorical. Between the third week of June and the third week of July, the c...
Graduation Day: What Goes Under the Gown
The academic regalia of a British university has not changed significantly since the fourteenth century, when Oxford and Cambridge adopte...
Essaouira: Medina Wind and Rampart Sunsets
Essaouira is the city that Marrakech visitors miss because the desert is easier to explain. The desert has dunes. Essaouira has the Alizé...
The appointment is ninety minutes. The bride arrives with her mother and one friend, which is the group size that most boutiques recommen...
Photography Day: Dressing for What the Camera Sees
The photographer arrives at ten. By the time she has set up the light stand in the corner of the studio, you have already changed twice. ...
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, la...
Wardrobe Department Essentials: Film and Television
The production designer for a drama series once described the wardrobe department's job as making the same thing happen twice. Every take...
Adhesive Lingerie and Exercise: What Holds During Movement
Most adhesive products fail under sweat and movement because their chemistry was not designed for it. Here is what the physiology demands...