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TINA MENTOL

Tina Mentol
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Tina's Interests
GeneralDigital anthropology, exploring cyberspace and culture on the internet, material culture, semiotics, digital identities and branding, flea markets
EducationBachelor of Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology; Master's in Cultural Anthropology
MusicDepeche Mode, Sateliti, heavy metal, industrial, thrash, 90's eurodance
BooksSaussure, Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities (Slavenia is one), Daniel Miller, Halbwachs, a pinch of Žižek
HeroesEvery Slav wearing white socks with slippers unironically
Tina: Details
Status:Married to the BIG BIZNIS
Hometown:LJUBLJANA ATM, SLOVENIA
Occupation:Internet Explorer / Creative director / Brand Alchemist / Anthropologist
Height:175CM
Zodiac:TURBO GEMINI ♊
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BRANDS founded & operated by Tina
SLAVSOCKS
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Balkan-inspired statement socks
oddklop
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protective techwear vs ticks
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Slovenian heritage socks
SLAVENIA
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COLLABORATIONS worked with:
MUSIC
Dubioza Kolektiv x SLAVSOCKS — I AM FROM BOSNIA TAKE ME TO AMERICA
ART
ART VITAL — Marina Abramović x Ulay — SLAVSOCKS homage to the legendary performance duo
THEATRE
SNG Drama — collaboration with the Slovenian National Theatre
FOOD
Čokolino — nostalgia in a bowl, nostalgia on a sock
MUSIC
Magnifico — collaboration with the icon of Balkan pop subversion
MUSIC
Bijelo Dugme — official merch collab: Slavsocks x Bijelo Dugme socks for the 2022 Stožice concert (motifs: BIJELO DUGME & HITOVI)
📰 MEDIA PRESS ARCHIVE newest first
MEDIA MARKETING — 2025 — 🌍 EN
A Pair of Socks as a Cultural Rebellion

Regional industry interview (in English) about Slavenia, anti-fashion white socks, the fight against beige aesthetics, and the TURBO & GAS collections.

RTV SLO / RTV CIRKUS — 2026 — 🇸🇮 🎙️
RTV Cirkus #4: Tina Mentol dela "Big biznis" — in to iz nogavic

Videokast with people who leave a mark on society. Tina Mentol on Slavsocks, oddklop, being a Zarečanka who loves klobasa, and why applied anthropology is the future.

DNEVNIK — 2025 — 🇸🇮
Dizajnerske nogavice proti klopom in komarjem

Dnevnik's Sunday magazine on oddklop: the world's first designer protective knee-highs with Cell Solution technology, born from a personal battle with tick-borne meningitis.

MARKETING MAGAZIN — 2025 — 🇸🇮
Tina Mentol želi postati kraljica mortadele: "Pokličite me!"

Marketing Magazin's "Življenje z znaMMkami" column: favourite ads, the icon of MIP MIP MIP Kraljica mortadela, Samsung x Ozzy Osbourne, 90's cool futurism, and why comedy sells. Also speaking at Dan_d on what a human is on social media and vice versa.

MARKETING MAGAZIN — 2024 — 🇸🇮
Z novo kolekcijo Slavsocks nazaj v leto 2000

BMK EKSTRA collection inspired by early 2000s tech culture, South Park's record-breaking episode, an AI-generated banger on Spotify, a TikTok open call with 150+ submissions, and the People of Slavsocks exhibition at TOZD Ljubljana.

JOURNAL.SI — 2024 — 🇸🇮
Spoznajte SLAVSOCKS: ekološke nogavice, ki ironično slavijo ikone slovanske kulture

On sustainable, OEKO-TEX certified socks made in Slovenia and the invention of Slavenia.

METROPOLITAN — 2024 — 🇸🇮
"To je čas, ko znajo potico pripraviti samo še naše babice"

Interview on Slovenian food heritage, the 1899 Pekatete pasta factory, and why cuisine needs something you can hold and post on Instagram.

SLOVENSKE NOVICE / SUZY — 2023 — 🇸🇮
Moja znamka so ljudje

"My brand is people" — print is not dead, and neither is creative restlessness.

RTV SLO / MMC — 2022 — 🇸🇮
Tina Mentol ustvarja "big biznis" iz nogavic

Slovenia's national broadcaster on how an ethnologist sold 100,000 socks in a year with kranjska sausage, potica and cviček motifs — and why she keeps turning down buyout offers.

DELO — 2022 — 🇸🇮
Ne burger, ne pomfrit, njen fast food so kranjske klobase

Delo's Carpe Diem interview by Beti Burger: on kranjska klobasa vs burgers, potica recipes, teran wine almost forgotten until Croatia reminded us, and why her sausage socks are worn by vegans too.

N1 — 2021 — 🇸🇮
Slavsocks, nostalgične bele nogavice "s kančkom filozofije in Žižka"

Nostalgic white socks with a pinch of philosophy and Žižek.

YOUTUBE 📺 — 2021 — 🇸🇮
VILI PREDSTAVLJA — Tina Mentol | Slavsocks | Slocks · Interview with Luka Korenčič

Video interviews — incl. a series made with the Centre for Creativity at the Museum of Architecture and Design.

MLADINA — 2021 — 🇸🇮
Slavsocks

Slovenia's legendary weekly on white socks losing their subversive edge — and Slavsocks giving it back with AJVAR, SARME and #ČEVAPI.

33 MAGAZINE — 2021 — 🌍 EN
Slavsocks Is the New Rule of Socks

International fashion feature by Mira Postolache placing Slavsocks in the statement-sock lineage of Vetements and Prada.

SVET24 — 2020 — 🇸🇮
Nič ni boljšega, kot sta klobasa in vino

Early interview on the first "kranjska & potička" socks and the wine series: cviček, rebula, teran.

LJUBLJANAINFO — 🇸🇮
Metamorfoza v Ljubljančana se pripeti čez noč

City interview about Ljubljana life, dragon socks and delivering nogavice past the parking wardens.

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BUREK Jul 4 2026 3:33 AM
thanx 4 the add!! sustainable as burek from yesterday — still good 😤
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Oddy Jul 1 2026 9:12 AM
čas za ODDKLOP! no ticks shall pass 🌲🧦 c u in the forest
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passport not required. love of ajvar required. WELCOME CITIZEN.
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