Clothing for sensitive skin: why fashion brands are ditching synthetics for natural fibres

Most people would find it hard to imagine that clothing could ever feel like the enemy.

Uncomfortable?

At times.

Unflattering?

Often.

But so irritating and inflammatory that wearing one polyester top on an evening out could exacerbate a skin condition for weeks to come?

Not so much – yet that’s how it is for some.
For English stylist Tallulah Harlech, who has struggled with guttate psoriasis since she was nine years old, clothes have long been a source of anxiety.

Her whole-body condition is so...