Skindelle Stories

The Capsule Travel Wardrobe: Packing for Everywhere and Nothing Extra

The bag is already open. Four cities in fourteen days: a design hotel in Copenhagen, an Airbnb apartment in Barcelona overlooking a courtyard, a wedding at a farmhouse outside Florence, and three d...

Transitional Dressing: When Summer Meets Autumn

September in Milan has a quality of light that August does not. The angle shifts: still warm in the afternoon, still eating outside at nine in the evening, but with a coolness that arrives after te...

Beach to Dinner: One Change, All Summer

The boat docks at Parikia harbour at five-thirty. You have been in the Aegean for four hours. Salt has dried in your hair and left a faint mineral film on your arms, the way it does nowhere else in...

Spring Racing and Garden Parties: Dressing for Outdoor Occasions

The barrier is already full by the time the first race runs. Flemington Racecourse in November: the magnolias are finished, the spring light is high and hard, and the women in the Birdcage enclosur...

Festival Dressing: What Actually Works for Three Days

By the end of the second afternoon at Glastonbury, you can tell who packed for the Instagram post on day one and who packed for the third morning. The woman who is still moving easily through the c...

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. The shoot brief is professional portraits: headshots for the...