Gigi Hadid Revives the Rugby Shirt as Spring’s Preppy-Luxury Staple

Guest in Residence was built on the idea that knitwear should feel like an heirloom, not a throwaway, and Gigi Hadid just translated that philosophy into a spring uniform with real staying power. The brand, founded by Hadid in 2022, makes 100% cashmere pieces it calls “Future Heirlooms,” and her latest look gave that language a sharper, more everyday edge: a striped rugby shirt worn with enough polish to read less varsity, more private club.

Photographed in New York on April 10, Hadid wore the striped style from her own label over semi-sheer layers, then grounded it with straight-leg jeans, a chocolate-brown bomber, loafers and a suede bag. The combination mattered. The rugby shirt carried the preppy backbone, but the denim kept it from feeling precious, the bomber added a hit of weekend ease, and the suede accessories pushed the whole outfit toward equestrian-country refinement rather than sporty nostalgia.

The shirt itself sits neatly inside Hadid’s business identity. Coverage has noted that she has designed at least two rugby styles for Guest in Residence, and she wears them often enough off duty that the piece now feels like part of her personal uniform as much as her label’s assortment. The specific Layered Stripe Rugby associated with the look was priced at $465, while Hadid’s suede style was reported at $695 and sold out in at least one color, a useful reminder that the appetite for this kind of restrained, logo-light dressing remains very real.

The timing is no accident. Spring 2026 has brought a broad sporty-prep revival, with rugby shirts, polos, anoraks and striped staples appearing on runways from Miu Miu, Lacoste and Prada. FashionBeans traces the rugby shirt’s cultural peak to the 1980s and 1990s, when it stood in for old-money yuppie polish, and that history is exactly why Hadid’s version works now. It has the crispness of prep without the costume effect, the ease of sportswear without any athletic urgency.

What Hadid is selling, whether deliberately or not, is quiet confidence: a shirt that can move from city pavement to country lawn, from a cashmere-minded brand story to a look you could actually wear on a Tuesday. In a season full of revival dressing, that kind of daily wearability may be the most persuasive luxury of all.