Skin Two is a long-running fetish magazine. The name means second skin, the way fetish clothing sits on a body. Publisher Tim Woodward and photographer Grace Lau founded it in London in 1983. It became an information hub for rubber, latex, and BDSM club culture worldwide. For people who lived the European fetish calendar from the 1980s through the 2000s, or who still treat rubber as identity rather than costume, Skin Two is institutional memory on glossy paper. It records how that subculture moved.
The magazine is published in Britain and distributed worldwide, and the center of it stays latex clothing and the people who wear it. BDSM lifestyle pieces sit next to fashion editorials. The mix is event coverage, fashion, personality profiles, and scene news: broader fetish and SM practice, and alternative style. That is how the title could sit beside mainstream fashion and celebrity. Names tied to features or to cultural crossover include Tim Burton, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dita Von Teese, and Katy Perry. Under that, it remains a trade paper for fetish, not a mass fashion magazine.
It also worked as a career step. Writers, fetish models, and photographers used its pages to get wider recognition in the business. The brand tried a continental edition. In 1987 Peter Czernich launched Skin Two Germany. It closed in 1989. The run was short, and it still shows how fast the name traveled.
In recent years the magazine has continued under Tim Woodward’s KFS Media. KFS Media also publishes the sister title KFS Magazine, aimed at alternative sexuality beyond rubber and clubs. That split matches a habit in current fetish media: specialist fetish fashion on one side, broader queer or alt-sex coverage on the other. Skin Two is also a clothing and accessories label. UK fetishwear company Honour Ltd manufactures and retails it under license for KFS Media. As of 2022, Honour Ltd rebranded itself as Skin Two and folded decades of the magazine’s name into the shop. The catsuits, accessories, and club rubber use the same visual language as the magazine spreads. The buyers are adults who purchase the clothes and wear them.
