Gant

About Gant

Gant is a Swedish luxury clothing brand of American heritage launched in New Haven in 1949. The brand has since then been further developed, influenced by European styles, and is now a global clothing business. Gant's products are available from retailers and at signature Gant stores throughout the world, and offer clothing for men, women, boys, girls and babies. Home, Time, Fragrance, Footwear, Underwear and Eyewear licenses are also incorporated under the Gant brand name.

Number of stores

19

Founded

1949

Parent Company

Pyramid Sportswear of Sweden

Fun Facts

Bernard Gantmacher arrived in New York in 1914, an immigrant from Ukraine. He went straight to the garment district in Manhattan and secured his first job as a collar-sewing specialist in a downtown factory

Gant dress shirts were de rigueur for American male students in the early and mid-1960s. The shirts were worn open-collar and without necktie, with the top button open to reveal the roll of the collar, except when the formality of an occasion demanded otherwise.