Skin is a complex organ consisting of three main layers, namely the epidermis, dermis and hypodermis. The dermis is responsible for most of the complex mechanical properties of skin, including non-linearity, anisotropy and viscoelasticity. Like all soft collagenous tissues, the dermis is constituted mostly of extracellular matrix proteins, fibrillar collagens being the major structural components. Modelling efforts using a scaling-up approach for skin generally lack appropriate micro-mechanical experiments to clarify the link between macroscopic mechanical properties and microstructural behaviour. The goal of this research was to measure the evolution of skin's microstructure during mechanical stimulation to identify the relevant mechanisms...