Socks

 Karl-Joel Larsson is an artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden making super playful, versatile work right now. For the last few years he’s been painting, building, designing and drawing his way through a Bachelor of Fine Art and design at HDK. He’s also one half of the part-time multidisciplinary Studio Sipsi, which he directs with his school mate Nils Bengtsson. And when he’s not drawing or designing, Karl kicks back in his home studio to tend to his growing plant collection. We think we just heard the words ‘dreamboat’ whisper on in the wind…

So, you’re looking for the world’s best mens socks? Boy, have you come to the right place. 

If you’ve typed mens socks into google then I think it’s fair enough to assume that you’re sick of all the boring, commercial, mass produced socks out there that every second guy walking down the street is wearing. Listen, we get the need for a comfortable, cool product that you can feel good in and not look like some basic pleb that lacks originality.

That’s why we created our brightly coloured, unique mens socks that...

Hi there, wow, fancy meeting you whilst you googled cool socks.

Lol jks, of course you stumbled across us.

Listen, we’re going to let you in on a little secret, if you want cool socks, you come to us, Odd Pears. We may be new players on the sock scene but lets be honest, those other sock heads are boring, commercial and totally out of touch. Wasn’t it Gandhi that said “ All it takes is one epically amazing, young sock company to take on the big guys and change the sock game...

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