Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood is going to be showing again at London Fashion Week for the first time in nine years. As we await what she will blast us away with on her return, we should be taking note of her Spring/Summer 2008 ready-to-wear collection that showed in Paris last year, where her gorgeous layered designs were accessorised with some fabulous legwear choices. Here we take a look at the different socks and hosiery styles seen in Vivienne Westwood’s Spring/Summer 08 collection.

Brown knee highs fishnets were seen on the Vivienne Westwood catwalk, worn with extremely strappy sandals. Rock this look in a pair of Jonathan Aston Fishnet Knee Highs (£3.47) in chocolate available at SockShop.co.uk. Inky blue over the knee fishnets were teamed with a fishnet mini skirt and sandals, with only a flash of skin showing between the skirt and the over the knees, this look is for the very brave. Why not give it a try with the Jonathan Aston Fishnet Plain Top Hold Ups (£5.27) available at SockShop.co.uk which are similar. Vivienne Westwood carries on the fishnet theme by accessorising a beautiful blush pink dress with inky blue fishnet anklets teamed with a pair of textured leggings. The Jonathan Aston Fishnet Anklets (£3.47) available at SockShop.co.uk would work well for a similar style.

The main sock trend seen in the Spring/Summer 08 Vivienne Westwood collection was college socks. Big in America, these socks are thick white socks that go up to the knee and often have stripes running around the top. Vivienne Westwood used these casual socks, some with red stripes and some with blue and yellow stripes in many of her looks. Worn in a number of ways, college socks can be seen in Vivienne Westwood’s Spring/Summer 08 collection layered over tights, scrunched down, and even traditionally pulled tight up to the knee. Westwood chose to team college socks with many different footwear designs, including boots, sandals and square-toed brogues. Get some hot college socks from SockShop.co.uk; the Playboy College Honey Horizontal Stripe and Bunny Head Design Knee High Sock (£6.97) available from SockShop.co.uk may help to re-create this hot trend.