Skindelle Stories

Jenny Packham: Beading, Sheer Panels, and Coverage

Jenny Packham established her London studio in 1988 after graduating from Saint Martins, and the aesthetic she has built over nearly four decades can be described with unusual precision because it...

How to Remove Adhesive Lingerie Without Irritation

Most adhesive lingerie irritation happens at removal, not during wear. Slow peel, skin held taut, low angle. Thirty seconds done correctly makes the difference.

The Off-Shoulder Dress: What Works Underneath

The off-shoulder neckline appears in nearly every culture's festive dress history. The Regency-era gown in Jane Austen's England wore its neckline at the shoulder; the peasant blouse of southern Sp...

Vienna: Ball Season, Opera Waltzes and Formal European Evenings

Vienna is the city that institutionalised pleasure. Not hedonism, which is a different thing, but pleasure as civic discipline: the opera season, the concert calendar, the ball season that runs fro...

Comporta: Rice Fields, Pine Forests, and Barefoot Dinners

Comporta is the place you go when you are done with beach towns that perform being beach towns. Not the Algarve, which has been performing since the 1970s. Not Cascais, which performs proximity to ...

Why We Don't Discount

Hermes has never held a sale. The Row has no outlet. The economics of discounting signal something about a product that the product cannot recover from.