If Your Vibe Is Bottega Veneta But Your Budget Is H&M, This $75 Dress Is a Must
If you speak to any fashion editor about the dresses on their current wish list, they'll likely bring up some iteration of a halter-neck midi dress. The style has been gaining momentum for a while now, in large part due to Matthieu Blazy's Bottega Veneta collections, which have included the silhouette in a variety of colors and fabrications. Nipped-in waists, bubble hems, fringe details, and voluminous skirts are also features of his halter-neck frocks. Of course, an off-the-runway Bottega Veneta dress isn't exactly within everyone's budgets, and with the dress style in question trending right now, there isn't a ton of time to save up. Fortunately, I just stumbled upon a $75 alt that checks off similar trend boxes without the rather large investment.
The dress in question comes courtesy of H&M's latest fall drop and is a black V-neck halter dress with an A-line shape and a fringed jacquard-pattern skirt. Did I mention that it's $75 and fully stocked? There's only one catch that I can think of, and that's the high likelihood of it selling out as soon as the masses find it hidden in the brand's nearly 1000-item new-arrivals section. That's why I made it extra easy to snag by linking straight to the dress below. You're welcome.
Scroll down to shop the frock you genuinely need if Bottega Veneta is your vibe but H&M is your budget.
There were a couple of different iterations of the halter dress in Bottega's S/S 23 show, and the biggest showstoppers were this vibrant orange number with a sculpted waist and fringe skirt and another teal alternative that was fully embellished with fringe.
As you can see with this '50s-inspired drop-waist dress with a heart-shaped neckline, fall/winter 2022 halters for Bottega were slightly more pared back and wearable for every day.
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Eliza Huber is a New York City–based fashion editor who specializes in trend reporting, brand discovery, and celebrity style. She joined Who What Wear in 2021 after almost four years on the fashion editorial team at Refinery29, the job she took after graduating with a marketing degree from the University of Iowa. She has since launched two monthly columns, Let's Get a Room and Ways to Wear; profiled the likes of Dakota Fanning, Diane Kruger, Katie Holmes, and Sabrina Carpenter for WWW's monthly cover features; and reported on everything from the relationship between Formula One and fashion to the top trends from fashion month, season after season. Eliza now lives on the Upper West Side and spends her free time researching F1 fashion imagery for her side Instagram accounts @thepinnacleoffashion and @f1paddockfits, running in Central Park, and scouring eBay for '90s Prada and '80s Yves Saint Laurent.
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