The simplest way to update your summer look is a white vest – just be careful what you call it

The white vest top – fashion’s hero of the hour. Styling: Melanie Wilkinson. Photographer: Tom J Johnson
Photograph: Tom J Johnson/the Guardian

There is only one contender for the trophy piece of this season. The look that model Kaia Gerber wore when she opened the Prada show at Milan fashion week was also the first piece on to the catwalk at Matthieu Blazy’s debut Bottega Veneta show. Dua Lipa is wearing the very same item on the latest cover of American Vogue, while Bella Hadid is snapped in hers by New York’s paparazzi almost daily.

So far, so high fashion. Except that you can buy this look for around a tenner. This season, which in the real world is headlined the cost-of-living-crisis summer, the white vest top is fashion’s hero of the hour.