As the Fall Runway shows revealed, the white tank top is the clear wardrobe must-have for Autumn, 2022. A sartorial icon that you can purchase in a pack of 10 at Target or Walmart, the perennial favorite that won’t break the bank, the tank top took to the runways like well-seasoned Chanel tweed: They played well with pleated wool trousers for a take on business-casual and flirted with ball skirts to strip eveningwear of its formality — and of course, they paired beautifully with everything denim.
While the sudden embrace of such a humble staple seems like something thought up by American sportswear brands, it’s actually the European labels who are pushing the chic version of the Hanes staple. For example, fitted white tank tops opened the Bottega Veneta and Prada shows at Milan Fashion Week: Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons slapped the Italian label’s triangular logo front-and-center for a look, while BV’s new Creative Director Matthieu Blazy recreated the ribbed cotton classic in luxurious leather.
In Paris, designers positioned it as a companion for more grandiose bottoms: Acne Studios and Sacai paired them with statement skirts, while Chloé coupled them with colorful leather pants. Elsewhere, Conner Ives wrote a love letter to American archetypes in London featuring one excellent, made-for-a-clique-leader tight tank top, and Bevza, a Ukrainian brand that shows in New York, gave us a sublime scoop-neck style for Fall 2022.
While the cold-weather collections stole summer’s simple throw-on, that doesn’t mean we need to wait for another round of dreary weather to sport Fall 2022’s biggest runway trend. There are already several ready-to-impress options in newly dropped spring collections, like Telfar’s white halter take on the tank.
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