Comfort has become the new luxury, and nowhere is that more evident than in the evolution of innerwear. Over the past few years, terms like second skin, seamless, bonded and ultra-smooth have become increasingly common across lingerie and innerwear collections. But are they simply marketing buzzwords, or do they actually make a difference to how a garment feels and performs?
Speaking to HT Shop Now, Arpana Jathanna Walters, Chief Design Officer at Modenik Lifestyle (Enamor, Dixcy Scott, Slimz and Levi's Essentials), talks about how this shift reflects a much bigger change in the way intimate apparel is being designed.
"The first layer is our second skin, and it is very important to know what to do and what to avoid," she says.
Rather than focusing only on aesthetics, today's innerwear is increasingly engineered to behave more like human skin by regulating temperature, managing moisture, stretching with the body and reducing friction.
Why is "second skin" becoming such a popular concept?
