A leather skirt is a skirt made of leather. Although durable material, the particular combination of style and material makes for a certain fashion statement. Leather skirts appear in a variety of lengths and styles.

Use varies with current trends in fashion, eg. during the 80s and 90s they were a popular item on the catwalks with popularity dwindling in the early 2000s^{[citation needed]}.

A short leather skirt might be regarded as more sexy than an equivalent short skirt of other material, and thus as more suitable to a night out than as office wear. A long leather skirt might look professional and chic without looking too sexy for the office.

Leather garments, including skirts, see use in heavy metal, goth and BDSM subcultures.

Like other skirts in western culture they are almost exclusively worn by women, but there are movements, such as MIS that fight for making them acceptable for everyday wear by men.

Lisa Robertson (born on July 22, 1961 in Toronto) is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in France.

In 1979, she moved to British Columbia, where she remained for twenty-three years. During her time there, she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which is a non-profit society that offers an alternative to the mainstream pedagogy of most Canadian universities.

She has been integrally involved in Vancouver's art scene and is an honorary board member of Artspeak Gallery. She has written on and reviewed exhibitions and pieces by Kelly Wood, Robert Garcet, Liz Magor, Allyson Clay, Kathy Slade, and Hadley+Maxwell, among others. She has also written on architecture and sites in British Columbia. Robertson contributed the "Beneath the Pavilions" column to Mix from 1997-1999.

She co-edited the poetry journal Raddle Moon with Susan Clark in Vancouver, and has worked as an arts journalist, a book seller, a copy editor, an astrologer, a guest lecturer, and an essayist. She has written on the work of Robin Blaser, Denise Riley, Dionne Brand, Peter Culley, Ted Berrigan, John Clare, Lorine Niedecker, Pauline Reage, Michele Bernstein and Albertine Sarrazin.

Pamela Silva Conde is a six time Emmy award winning journalist and co-anchor of the Univision Network’s afternoon news-magazine show, “Primer Impacto” (First Impact) one of the highest-rated programs in the United States and in 12 Latin-American countries.

Silva Conde began her career at Univision in 2003 as a public affairs coordinator and producer for the community affairs show “Miami Ahora” (Miami Now) at WLTV 23. She also worked as a guest reporter for Univision Network shows, “El Gordo y La Flaca” (The Fat man and The Skinny woman), “Despierta America” (Wake-Up America) and “Control.”; as the Miami-based reporter for TeleFutura’s “Escandalo TV” (ShowBiz TV) and as the station spokesperson for TeleFutura 69. Silva Conde was also the host of TeleFutura 69’s first local newscast, “Noticias en Noventa” (News in 90), a 90-second daily segment that brought viewers highlights of local news. She was a professional cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins.

In 2005, Silva Conde joined the Univision Miami affiliate news team as an entertainment anchor and reporter, and soon became a fill-in anchor and was later named main anchor for the leading Spanish-language morning newscast in South Florida “Noticias 23 Al Amanecer” where she presented the news on a daily basis both WLTV Univision 23 and WAMI TeleFutura 69. Aside from her duties as a news anchor she also worked on special feature and investigative reports, and also collaborated stories for the investigative show “Aqui y Ahora” as a national correspondent.

Amy Elizabeth Freeze (born June 19, 1974) is the weekend meteorologist at WABC-TV in New York. Raised the eldest of the five daughters of Bill and Linda Freeze in Jeffersonville, Indiana, she was the chief meteorologist for Fox owned-and-operated station WFLD in Chicago from 2007–11.

Freeze has certificate number 111 from the American Meteorological Society as a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist—she was one of the first 20 women in the world to receive this certification. In addition, Freeze has her National Weather Association and American Meteorological Society Seals of Approval. She is a three-time National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award winner.^{[citation needed]}

Before joining WFLD, Amy Freeze worked for NBC's WCAU in Philadelphia for four years. During that time she went to the plaza in New York City to fill in for the "Weekend Today Show". She also worked in Denver at both KWGN and KMGH. She began her broadcasting career in Portland, Oregon at KPTV. Freeze had a cameo appearance in the "Scrubs" episode My Life in Four Cameras. She uses viewers' digital photos capturing the weather, including them in her forecasts as "Freeze Frame." Amy created "The Freeze Factor" – a special segment where she rates the next days weather on a scale of 1 to 10.

Linda Church (born ca. 1961) has been the morning weather anchor for the WPIX (New York) CW11, formerly WB11, Morning News since its debut in June 2000. She also leads the Wakeup Workout segment that airs on Monday mornings.

Church was the WPIX weekend weather anchor from 1990 to 1996. From 1987 to 1990 Church worked for WNBC (New York). Church was the noon weather anchor at WCBS (New York). Church also co-hosted the show "Summer Fun for Kids" with former WPIX colleague Mat Garcia in June 2003 and with Craig Treadway in July 2007.

Church began her career in Gainesville, Florida, and went on to work for stations in Cleveland, New Haven, and Charleston.

Church attended the University of Florida as an undergraduate and the University of New Haven for graduate studies. She has a seal from the American Meteorological Society.^{[citation needed]}