What’s on Your T-Shirt?

Dries Van Noten’s double-layered T-shirt evokes the comfortable feeling that extends throughout the whole collection, where every single look is a feast for the eyes. The soft grey short sleeve worn over brown and blue striped sleeves that peek out beneath like a memory, almost nostalgic—there was a time when short sleeves over long sleeves were really the cool thing—but there's a sharpness to its styling that elevates it. With Julian Klausner now at the helm, the collection worked through themes of recomposition and gesture, and this shirt, simultaneously two garments and one, echoed those intentions. It resists the idea of a clean slate, embracing layering not just as a styling tool but as a conceptual stance.

This “I Love Egg” T-shirt plays with humour and cultural nods, turning something as simple as an egg, sunnyside up to be more specific, into a visual statement. The cracked egg graphic, bold and almost childlike in its execution, contrasts with the clean, slightly oversized white cotton fabric. Is it ironic, or is it for real? It’s a quiet critique wrapped in casual wear, where the playful print becomes a lens to explore consumer culture and rituals—especially when seen alongside the collection’s food-themed accessories, even with the same model carrying two water bottles shaped like mustard and ketchup bottles. Masayuki Ino not only enjoys adding surrealist and comedic elements to his collections and concepts, but he also knows how to.

As part of his return to the runways, Craig Green’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection plays with familiarity. The mustard base and dark green lines of this T-shirt recall something close to a vintage rugby top, but the collar detail—split open with long braided cords—adds a twist. It seems like it's paired randomly with some technical shorts of interesting silhouette, but both pieces share a complementary colour palette with an outdoor feeling to them, like they fit well in a forest, a place where Green's pieces always look like they belong. The shoelace-type of detail is also present in said shorts, not as decoration like in the T-shirt but as a functional element of adjustment. Adding an intelligent detail to an apparently normal piece; that's the interesting sense of evolution Craig Green is always proving he has. 

Rick Owens presented his latest collection at his beloved temple, the Palais de Tokyo, with a cavernous echo of devotional energy, and this washed, pale clay T-shirt felt like part of the temple. The cut is classic Rick: oversized, long, and flowy, and the material follows the same vein, a light fabric that must feel like wearing nothing. As his exhibition Temple of Love continues to haunt the art world, this piece is a direct reference to it, with a print of a photograph of some urinals on it. Maybe the NSFW Rick fountain we all saw in our feeds a while ago can make good use of them? In Owens’ world, even the T-shirts carry the weight of his ritualistic universe, and with an art exhibition, a book and a collection, he keeps working on his total work.

Willy Chavarria and Adidas keep on expanding their shared repertoire that has proven to be successful as well as logical within the designer’s concepts. Rendered in heavy jersey, oversize and relaxed, and part of his Huron collection—a tribute and commentary about resilience, migration, and survival—the t-shirt comes branded but unbothered, the streetwear essence ever present in Willy’s collections. His and the sportswear brand name are there, big and centred, and the signature stripes also make an appearance in a different way, but it still doesn't feel like a hypebeast type of garment. Recontextualised in Chavarria’s vocabulary, it refuses to be reduced to a trend or logo and fits the cultural narration this whole collection was. 

At PDF, a hybrid construction takes shape as a way to express the FREE-DOM Domenico Formichetti is looking for. A printed white tank layered over what most likely is a sports jersey stitched together, not like one on top of the other but actually integrated in the same piece. Two signature and permanent pieces of the streetwear style throughout the years, we've seen them countless times; however, we do not often see them together like this. The tank top is usually tight in the body, and the jersey is loose. By fusing them together, no preconceived notion we had matters anymore, and that's what Formichetti wanted: to break free from his own personal boundaries, some that reside in his mind and others that are asking to be reimagined in a material way, like all the opportunities something as simple as a T-shirt can offer.

We can always trust Hed Mayner to add a sculptural take onto the sharp and chic designs we've come to expect from him. The brown t-shirt with random stitches gathering fabric makes it appear almost padded, the surface quilted and undulating. The sculptural aspect mentioned at the beginning doesn't necessarily mean rigid or stiff; on the contrary, this season the intention was to explore creation and construction through a softer gaze. The wrinkles, the bending and the falling of fabric are important and something voluntarily achieved but spontaneous in the result. This t-shirt, a product of the natural way fabric behaves, is a perfect exhibit of how softer pieces and fluid shapes can also become a great structure.

This season features some of the boldest Kenzo pieces Nigo has created for the brand yet, with wooden platform trainers, animal prints everywhere, and almost neon shades coexisting with soft pastels and bold complements that tell us that more is more. Even the normal graphic white shirt is taken care of, customised and adapted to fit well among its more outlandish surroundings. “What happens when a tiger meets a rabbit? Delicious little rabbits with tiger stripes unexpectedly appear,” they said, and these rabbits named Mimi, Jojo and Zaza are the colourful figures that grace the tee, bedazzled and colourful. The sons of K@li the rabbit and Quique the tiger, introduced in the FW25 collection, make their way into the white and bring fun to the most basic piece.