Cosying Up

Gigi Hadid is launching Guest In Residence, her own label of wildly colourful cashmere.

- CHIOMA NNADI

When Gigi Hadid moved to New York from Los Angeles almost a decade ago, it was on the brink of a particularly bitter East Coast winter. Needless to say, the bone-chilling weather was a shock to the system. “I’m always the person who’s cold even when other people feel hot,” says Hadid, with a sigh. Thankfully, her parents had planned ahead: they’d sent their then teenage daughter off to college at the New

School with the cashmere sweaters she’d swiped from their wardrobe on cooler days in California. Her favourites were all stealthy chic: a grey turtleneck that fastened with leather straps (her mother’s) and an all-engulfing button-up cable-knit cardigan from her father. With her life in a moment of transition—one both wildly exhilarating and bewildering—the cosy knits offered the reassuring feeling of home. “Those were the only cashmere pieces I owned for a long time,” Hadid admits. “I still have them.”