Laurie Mallet, President and CEO of Ozone Design, the world’s leading maker of fashion socks, has just announced the winner of the annual My Socks are Your Socks competition.

The design competition, which began in 2007, is Ozone’s contribution to open platform design. “Ozone socks are about innovation in design so we love getting input from as many sources as possible,” said David Rood-Ojalvo, National Sales director.

“Socks are a fresh category in the world of fashion and an important one in this accesssory driven market. We love to be continually challenged in our design approach and this competition is great for that.”   “We were overwhelmed by the number of entries,” says Mallet who received sock designs from locations as far as Eastern Europe and Japan, “There were at least 10 times more than in the previous years. It was so difficult for us to make our final decision that we awarded a first, second and third place.”

The Winning design was submitted by Dolores Poacelli an artist living in Philadelphia. Dolores received a $ 250 prize and her choice of 12 pairs of Ozone socks.