Gant returns to New Haven for fall 2026, launching a multi-season partnership with Yale University that revisits the label’s formative connection to Ivy League style. The Yale Co-op was an early destination for Gant’s button-down shirts after the brand’s 1949 founding. That collegiate history informs a menswear collection of Oxford shirts, letter sweaters, striped ruggers, Italian cotton chinos, British wool tweed blazers, wool corduroy suits, and a leather varsity jacket.
Gant x Yale Fall 2026 Campaign
Vintage-inspired Yale lettering appears throughout the collection. Familiar combinations of denim, knitwear, tailoring, and repp-style ties recall the campus wardrobe that helped define postwar American sportswear.
Photographed at Yale in New Haven, the accompanying campaign places models Jack Lumsden and Nile Winchester among the university’s lawns and historic architecture. The images set campus life around the clothes, with bicycles, books, a bulldog, and furniture hauled across the grass, placing the collection in a worn-in collegiate setting.
The campaign shifts between the collection’s dressed-up and casual sides, from a brown suit and striped shirt to wide-leg jeans, a striped rugby shirt, and varsity outerwear. At a moment when prep continues to circulate through menswear, Gant x Yale draws from a relationship with the Ivy League that reaches back more than seven decades.
