Monoxious » galliano http://www.monoxious.com We're monochromatically obnoxious Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:30:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Trend Report: Sock it up http://www.monoxious.com/trend-report-sock-it-up/ http://www.monoxious.com/trend-report-sock-it-up/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:30:03 +0000 Dawn http://monoxious.com/?p=1104 I don’t know about you, but I love it when fashion completely turns everyone’s expectations over and, in the words of Tim Gunn, “make it work”.

I am sure that every girl have been warned at any given point in their lives to never wear open-toed sandals with stockings. It was an image permeated by unfortunate matrons and clueless office ladies, and there are hardly any greater faux pas than that. On the runways of A/W09 and S/S10 however, we see many designers challenging this view by pairing strappy sandals with thick ankle length socks, in turn giving these summery shoes a distinctive touch of winter.

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Christian Dior S/S10

Galliano added a pop of colour with bright pink socks, while Burberry opted to keep the colours within the same family.
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L: John Galliano S/S10 R: Burberry Prorsum S/S10

I also love how Versace paired slouchy socks and stompy shoes with a feminine dress in their pre-fall 2010 collection

Versace Prefall 2010

Miu Miu however, literally knocked the socks off me (you know I can’t resist the puns) with their embellished socks. We are like magpies and love shiny objects as can be seen from our embellished lace tights DIY

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via JAK&JIL

I am so going to find a pair of plain socks and sew all manners of shiny nonsense on them.

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