Skin Two is the long-running fetish magazine that mapped global rubber, latex, and BDSM club culture under a name that literally means second skin—the way fetish clothing sits on the body. Founded in London in 1983 by publisher Tim Woodward and photographer Grace Lau, it became an international information hub for fetish fashion, parties, people, and news, with a heavy concentration on latex and alternative style plus broader features on fetishism and SM practice. For anyone who lived the 1980s–2000s European fetish calendar—or who still buys rubber as identity, not costume—Skin Two is institutional memory in glossy form.
Magazine History and Profile
Published from Britain and distributed worldwide, Skin Two mixed event coverage, fashion editorials, personality profiles, and scene news. Latex clothing and the people who wear it sit at the center; BDSM lifestyle content rides alongside. The German edition, Skin Two Germany, was launched by Peter Czernich in 1987 and closed in 1989—a short continental spin that still shows how quickly the Skin Two brand traveled. The magazine also functioned as a career ladder: writers, fetish models, and photographers used its pages as a springboard to wider recognition. Names associated with features or cultural crossover include Tim Burton, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dita Von Teese, and Katy Perry—proof the title could sit next to mainstream fashion and celebrity while remaining a fetish trade paper at heart.
As of recent years the magazine has continued under Tim Woodward’s KFS Media, which also launched sister title KFS Magazine aimed at a wider alternative-sexuality remit beyond pure rubber-and-club focus. That expansion mirrors how contemporary kink media often splits between specialist fetish fashion and broader queer/alt-sex coverage.
Skin Two Clothing
Skin Two is not only print. It is also a clothing and accessories label. Manufacture and retail have been handled under license by UK fetishwear company Honour Ltd for KFS Media. As of 2022, Honour rebranded itself as Skin Two—folding decades of magazine equity into the shopfront name. For buyers, that means the brand that documented latex culture also sells the second skins it glamorizes: catsuits, accessories, and club-ready rubber associated with the same visual language as the magazine’s spreads.
