Skindelle Stories

Sleeveless at Work: Professional Dressing Without Visible Lingerie

The sleeveless sheath in a client-facing room gives visible lingerie nowhere to hide. No sleeve, no layer, no margin for a strap or a band at the armhole.

Vera Wang: Architecture That Demands Invisible Engineering

Vera Wang began her career as a figure skating competitor at competitive level, then spent sixteen years as a fashion editor at Vogue, then two years as design director at Ralph Lauren accessories...

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...

Hydra: No Cars, No Roads, Just Donkeys and Design

Hydra is the Greek island you go to after you have exhausted the other arguments. After Mykonos, about the night and the performance of it. After Santorini, about the view and the documentation of ...

Mykonos: Dressing from Beach Clubs to Dinner After Dark

Mykonos is the island people visit before they know better and then return to when they know exactly what they want. The first visit is about the clubs and the crowd. The return visits are about so...

What REACH Compliance Means for Products on Your Skin

On 18 December 2006, the European Parliament signed into law a regulation that would take more than a decade to implement in full. It was called REACH: Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and R...