Swedish Stockings: Tights as the ultimate fashion accessory

Often regarded as an undergarment, tights are actually the ultimate fashion accessory. Through its timeless and stylish designs, Swedish Stockings is a leader transforming tights and socks into versatile pieces that can elevate any outfit.

Swedish Stockings has won numerous awards for its tights, which have been featured in publications from Harper’s Bazaar to Vogue, making them a popular choice for editors and stylists. Most notably, the bestseller Olivia has been named The World’s Greatest Tights by The New York Times’ product recommendation service Wirecutter. This prestigious recognition highlights Swedish Stockings’ commitment to creating high-quality hosiery designed to be a fashion accessory rather than a disposable item. You don’t throw away a pair of sunglasses after one use, so why throw away a pair of tights?

Every year, eight billion pairs of tights are produced, worn once, and discarded, making hosiery the plastic straw of fashion. Swedish Stockings, the first sustainable hosiery brand, has been on a mission to change this since its start in 2014 by proving that quality, design, and sustainability can go hand in hand.

“Our commitment to sustainability extends beyond just production. Still there is no way to fully recycle old tights into new ones. That’s why we started a recycling program, inviting customers to send in their old tights, regardless of brand, to combat the growing amount of hosiery thrown into landfills,” says founder and CEO Linn Frisinger. “This year, we´re raising the bar with a bold goal: to collect more tights than we produce.”

When the recycling program was first launched, old pantyhose were collected and ground to be used as filler material in industrial fiberglass tanks. Now, aiming to be at the forefront of innovation, Swedish Stockings’ Recycling Club takes another leap toward the arts in 2025, announcing a new collaboration with American visual artist Sienna Martz.

This new artist collaboration, which will reimagine tights waste into one-of-a-kind textile art, highlights the company’s core value of thinking differently about sustainability and its wear-and-tear product. Swedish Stockings expands outside of its own industry by tapping into the arts to transform recycled waste into alternative long-life items, until a circular solution for making tights from nylon waste becomes possible.

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