Trust SKIMS to disrupt the fashion world with one explosive launch after another. Kim Kardashian’s shapewear and clothing brand has long mixed chic minimalism with bold declarations, and now it has taken it to the wonderfully absurd realm. The billionaire star’s empire reverberates with speculations as fresh releases send ripples and lift eyebrows across the globe. With unconventional facial bands, bizarre thongs, and more, the brand’s new releases generate as much curiosity as they do raise confusion.Â
Audacity brews at the core of SKIMS, not just a label, but a spectacle, as its eccentric products are provocations, questioning what normal even means in lingerie.
Jawline Sculpt-Wear: SKIMS’ controversial face wrap
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Just when one thought shapewear was only for the body, Kim Kardashian dropped its Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap, pitched as SKIMS’s first-ever face innovation in July 2025. The face wrap was intended to provide focused compression along the jawline, neck, and lower half of the face, with the promise of sculpting it.Â
 It will provide support through SKIMS’s trademarked “sculpting fabric” that is infused with “collagen yarns,” to provide “ultra-soft jaw support,” per Elle. Priced at $48, it came in two neutral colors, clay and cocoa, and sold out in hours, according to reports.Â
The wrap occupied a space SKIMS products typically owned: between practical shapewear and absurd fantasy.
Faux Hair Micro String Thong
Kim Kardashian has upped the game of provocative fashion; she is the empress of by joining the merkin market. Maybe the most bizarre SKIMS drop in October 2025 is the Faux Hair Micro String Thong SKIMS sold it in an ad presented in the form of a 1970s game show, with the tagline “The Ultimate Bush.” The minimalist thong comes in twelve different color options for faux hair (curly and straight) attached to a sheer base.
Priced at $32, the thong is billed as SKIMS’ “most daring panty yet,” encapsulating the brand’s penchant for shocking the shapewear world. The brand dropped the product launch on Instagram with the caption promising, “your carpet can be whatever color you want it to be.”
SKIMS has never shied away from eye-catching drops, as the merkin is not one of their first weird products to gain attention.
Alien-themed swimwear
While not officially described by SKIMS as “alien-themed,” SKIMS’s swimwear line sometimes descends into dramatic and otherworldly prints, metallic materials, surprising cutouts, and space-age silhouettes borrowed from science fiction style.
The swimwear, cataloged on the SKIMS website under swim, consists of one-pieces and bikini tops and bottoms with intense geometry and striking prints. Kim Kardashian posed with extraterrestrials in swimwear to promote the collection in early 2023.Â
Why SKIMS thrives on weird
SKIMS’ weirdest products do more than shock; they act as brand signals. They push the divide between style and performance art, encouraging discussion, virality, and fallout. Among a saturated marketplace of shapewear and basics, being odd is a differentiator, an ingenious hack to stay winning. Additionally, these shock value drops tend to sell out quickly, making headlines pay. Kim Kardashian’s experiments with her SKIMS line had already welcomed bras with built-in nipples, with added pierced nipple versions, before the notorious new launches.
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In the age of digital media, hype is money, and nothing grabs eyeballs like a surprise. Whether the face wrap or faux hair thong takes permanent place in the industry matters less than the way it positions SKIMS as a risky, upending, and perpetually ahead-of-the-curve brand.
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