The Italian designer Miuccia Prada almost always includes socks-looking slouchy and a little off-cooker-in the catwalk shows for her brands, Prada and Miu Miu. The accessories are an emblem of her dedication to what makes her ‘ugly attractive’ and proof of the influence of her old employee and friend Manuela Pavesi, who formed the Prada look until her death in 2015 in 2015. ‘It is something that nobody really regards. Her favorites include a Tartan Footless Pair from the fall 2016 collection-“They are absurd,” she says and a mohair couple of the floral print from the fall of 2017.
Of course Miu Miu and Prada are not the only brands that use socks in unexpected ways. The British creative director Katie Grand loved to include single socks in the appearance she had stylized for Marc Jacobs in the years 2010. Anna Sui and Comme des Garçons have consistently put all kinds of socks on the runway to add tension to outfits. More recent, Simone Rocha, Shu Shu Tong and Chopova Lowa have offered girlish sides and crystal-trimmed versions. During the recent shows in the autumn 2025, models wore pure blue knee heights at Marni and ribbed black over-the-knee socks in Louis Vuitton. Relatively affordable and increasingly available, statement socks are a simple access point for experiments.
“Somebody recently said to me that socks are like the punctuation mark at the end of a sentence,” Says Jenni Lee, 37, the founder and creative director of the new york-based hosiery and loungewear fire comme si-made, cash, cash, cash, in 2019, cottmade, cottmade, cottmer, cottmade, cottmade, and cash, lunched in 201999999999999999999999999 Socks in Distinctive Colors Such as “Iris,” A Dusty Lilac, and “Basil,” A Deep Forest Green. Lee uses socks to add color to her own typical neutral outfits; They are a subtle detail that others may not immediately notice. The New York-based stylist Michelle Li, 30, also thinks of socks in grammatical terms, but as more an EM-Dash: a way to create a visual buffer between her zoom lines and her shoes. She is recently attracted to textured versions, including ribbed gray knee heights worn with a mini skirt and mules or nude pink polka-dot only socks combined with ballet flats. “Don’t think about shoes too hard,” she says, “because socks can adapt to what you are trying to wear.” Below are a few couples to add personality to your spring wardrobe.
