Skindelle Stories

Menorca: The Balearic Island That Does Not Perform

Menorca is the Balearic island for people who have been to Ibiza and survived it. Ibiza is organised around performance: the night, the music, the spectacle of people who want to be seen being pres...

How K-Beauty Manufacturing Changed Adhesive Lingerie

South Korea's precision manufacturing built the infrastructure for medical-grade adhesive lingerie. The cushion compact and nipple cover share a supply chain.

The Open-Side Cut: How to Dress for Side-Boob Architecture

In 1994, Donna Karan sent a model down the runway in a jersey dress with a cut that ran from the armhole to the hip, showing the full side of the torso. The fashion press called it daring. Women wh...

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...

What to Wear Under a Strapless Wedding Dress

The strapless wedding dress is built around a structural argument: that a garment with no shoulder support can hold itself in position and hold its occupant in the confidence to move through a twel...

Pantelleria: The Island for People Tired of Islands

Pantelleria is the island you find after you have exhausted the Italian coast. After the Amalfi, which is about the view from the terrace. After Capri, which is about the boat and the grotto and th...