What’s better than a tank top in summer? Easy: two. Or a tank top over a T-shirt. Or over a sheer layer. The equation is simple: layering + tank top = statement.
For two seasons now, fashion designers have been playing with a formula that revives the eternal summer staple. Because yes, we all need lightweight, but not boring, garments. Layering is a must, and the tank top is no longer the minimalist garment you wear when it’s hot, but the perfect excuse to experiment with proportions, textures, and transparencies.
The key? That the tank top doesn’t disappear beneath the layers, but rather becomes the center of the visual game. Contrasting silhouettes, materials that clash (or flow), and an aesthetic that clearly pulls from the Y2K revival, with echoes of Brad Pitt circa Fight Club, sports sunglasses, and oversized cargo pants included. A kind of choreographed chaos, disguised as spontaneity but meticulously calculated. Punk? Maybe. Cool? Absolutely.
This is how brands are doing it
In womenswear, Fendi (SS25) goes for pure sophistication: an appliquéd tank top over a chiffon blouse. Prabal Gurung, on the other hand, proposes asymmetrical cuts and tight volumes. Miu Miu keeps it simple—but we already know that when Miu Miu says “simple,” it means “fashion insider bait”—while MM6 Maison Margiela twists everything with fused layers and tactile sheerness.
Marco Rambaldi goes for it with a sheer, knotted-sleeve tee over a classic strapless top. Marques’Almeida follows suit, and The Row—true to its cult of radical minimalism—elevates layering to the level of Zen architecture: a black tee + two progressively more exposed layers. But when it comes to originality, Natasha Zinko and Wiederhoeft take the crown: the former with a hybrid T-shirt and overshirt, the latter with a sports corset.
And what about them?
In menswear, everything is more restrained… but no less interesting. Dries Van Noten, in his SS25 farewell, makes it ethereal: a translucent cape over a black tank top. Simone Rocha adds floral ribbons (yes, flowers on menswear, next), and Maximilian Davis at Ferragamo dares with three layers of pure visual cleanliness. Songzio, Pronounce, and Blumarble go the understated route, while Heliot Emil opts for a white T-shirt as the final layer after an immaculate white sequence topped off with a rain jacket.
Fashion or masochism?
Okay, so wearing three layers in July sounds like thermal self-flagellation, but the fashion crowd has already made it clear that style always comes before comfort. And it’s not just adding layers for the sake of adding them: it’s transforming the tank top into a canvas. In the singular, it’s clothing; in the plural, it’s narrative. All that remains is to solve the technical challenge: finding two (or three) tops that coexist in aesthetic harmony without creating a visual disaster. Because layering in 2025 isn’t sloppy: it’s curated down to the last thread.
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