Gabriela Hearst (née Perezutti) born in
Paysandú Department
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,
Uruguay
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, (November 3, 1976) is a women's luxury
ready-to-wear
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and accessories designer. In addition to designing her namesake collection, she runs and operates her family's ranch in Uruguay.
Early life and education
Hearst grew up on her family's ranch in Paysandú Department, Uruguay which is around 400 km away from the capital city, Montevideo.
She attended
The British School of Montevideo and attended the
Universidad ORT Uruguay with a
B.A.
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in communications. In her early 20s, after a short period in Paris, she moved to New York to study
performing arts
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at the
Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre.
Career
In 2004, she started Candela in Brooklyn with $700.
The collection was made of
T-shirt
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s with
silk-screened illustrations
of a winged woman on top of a horse (based on a photo of her mother). In 2006, the collection expanded to ready-to-wear and shoes.
After eleven years working in design, Hearst became a member of the
CFDA in 2012.
In fall 2015, Hearst launched her eponymous label: Gabriela Hearst.
The brand has been compared as an American competitor to
Hermès
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for its high-quality and fine use of garments. The collections are characterized by quality craftsmanship, high-end
and innovative materials,
such as the anti-radiation fabric that shields against the radiation emitted by mobile phones—introduced in the Resort 2017 collection as lining for the jacket pockets
—or the ultra-fine 14.5 micron
merino
The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool. It was established in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages, and was for several centuries kept as a strict Spanish monopoly; exports of the bree ...
wool
and the
aloe
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-treated linen introduced in the Resort 2018 collection, a
sustainable
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and utilitarian process that instantly softens the linen and gives the fabric the property to moisturize the skin.
Also the production is very attentive to the environment
and sustainability,
including the use of wool coming from Hearst's sheep farm in Uruguay, an end-to-end production cycle that helps minimizing the environmental impact.
Hearst is also the first brand that make use of Tipa compostable bio-plastics for all their packaging—an Israeli startup that is developing a flexible alternative to plastic that can be thrown into compost to decompose in 24 weeks.
Her line's first bag was the Nina Bag (named after
Nina Simone
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),
which started as a limited edition of 20
that Hearst gave to women she admired—some of them high-profile like
Miroslava Duma
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and
Brie Larson
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—as well as to women she enjoyed collaborating with, such as the owner of the factory or the shoe developer.
The bag now has an extensive waiting list.
In January 2016, Hearst was included in the "Ten of Tomorrow" by ''
Women's Wear Daily
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'' (WWD).
On September 9, 2017, Gabriela Hearst was added to the
Business of Fashion
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In January 2019,
LVMH Luxury Ventures, the fund launched by French luxury giant
LVMH
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to support "already iconic" emerging brands, invested in Gabriela Hearst, allowing the brand to expand their presence around the world. Since the fund creation in 2017, this investment is the first in a creative label.
In January 2021 Hearst designed the dress worn by First Lady Dr.
Jill Biden
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for the
2021 presidential inauguration: an ivory dress representing the new administration's message of unity that was embroidered with each of the 50 state's flowers and that of D.C.
In December 2021 Hearst was nominated by the
Financial Times
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as one of the 25 most influential women of the year.
In January 2023, the Gabriela Hearst ensemble worn by First Lady
Dr. Jill Biden to the 2021 presidential inauguration evening celebration joined the Smithsonian’s First Ladies Collection at the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s. The ensemble includes an ivory double-breasted cashmere coat, an ivory silk wool cady dress and face mask, with embroidery reflecting the federal flowers from every state and territory of the U.S. as a symbol of unity.
The Gabriela Hearst Autumn Winter 2023 show was inspired by Irish artist, architect and furniture designer
Eileen Gray
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, who was a pioneer of the
modernist movement
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that began in the 1920s. Gabriela Hearst collaborated with
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
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on the set design, inspired by Ricardo Bofill’s utopian 'The City in Space’ (La Ciudad en el Espacio), and with
Tricker’s, one of the longest-established shoemakers in England founded in 1829, on the exclusive development of archival officer boots as well as a new brogue style made exclusively for the collaboration.
Chloé
In December 2020 Hearst was named Creative Director of
Chloé
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, the luxury
prêt-à-porter
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brand launched in 1952 by
Gaby Aghion
Gabrielle Aghion (née Hanoka; 3 March 1921 – 27 September 2014) was a French fashion designer and the founder of the French fashion house Chloé. She is said to have coined the phrase "''prêt-à-porter''".
Career
Born in Alexandria, Egyp ...
. Gabriela Hearst is the first female designer with a multicultural heritage to both Uruguay and the United States to take the helm of a Paris fashion house.
For her debut collection at
Chloé
Chloé () is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion. During the next year of 1953 Aghion joined forces with Jacques Lenoir, formally managing the business side of the brand, allowing Aghion to purely pursue the creativ ...
, Hearst paid homage to the founder of the maison,
Gaby Aghion
Gabrielle Aghion (née Hanoka; 3 March 1921 – 27 September 2014) was a French fashion designer and the founder of the French fashion house Chloé. She is said to have coined the phrase "''prêt-à-porter''".
Career
Born in Alexandria, Egyp ...
, in the year of the brand's centenary with a collection that focuses on sustainability. The scalloped details, which
Aghion applied to a cotton piqué dress in her 1960 show at
Brasserie Lipp
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appeared as top-stitching on georgette blouses, in leather petals or patchwork denim, as a quilting technique, and along the cuffs of knitwear. The Broderie anglaise is transformed from classic to contemporary as a knitwear, and as a leather edge while the iconic Edith Bag has been reissued repurposing 50 vintage bags bought on
eBay
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. Hearst also collaborated with nonprofit founder Bass Timmer to create backpacks made from
deadstock, whose sales will donate two Sheltersuits (a garment with a technical outer shell that can turned into a sleeping bag) to homeless people.
Sustainability
On February 14, 2017, Gabriela Hearst presented its first runway show at the Refectory of the High Line Hotel.
The
Angela Davis
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–inspired collection,
while luxurious, had a non-wasteful approach.
The catwalk show was aimed at minimizing the environmental waste through a no-plastic policy,
furnished with pews and chairs borrowed from her home and office. Cashmere pillows for guests were knitted by the nonprofit organization
Manos del Uruguay from excess yarn from her previous collection and seven sets of clothes were made with existing fabrics and materials.
With FW18 collection, Hearst became the first brand to introduce compostable bio-plastics for all their packaging. A flexible alternative to plastic that can be thrown into compost to decompose in 24 weeks, developed by an Israel startup called TIPA Sustainable Packaging.
For spring/summer 2020, Gabriela Hearst became the first brand to stage a
carbon-neutral
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fashion. In collaboration with Bureau Betak and EcoAct, an international advisory council that works with businesses to address sustainability challenges, Gabriela Hearst worked on reducing the
carbon footprint
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of her show. This has been possible by booking models that did not have to fly, using catering services that cook with local and seasonal food, and reducing all the appliances backstage. In addition, she will be offsetting emissions by donating the energy costs associated with production to the Hifadhi-Livelihoods Project in Kenya, a country where Hearst has traveled in the past with
Save the Children
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. The offset funds will be used to provide modern, efficient cookstoves to families in Kenya's
Embu and
Tharaka Nithi counties, cutting down on wood usage and the noxious fumes that accompany it, which primarily impact women and children.
Looking forward to the future of sustainability, with SS20 collection Hearst introduced the digital identity for collections—in partnership wit
Eon The digital identity connects all products with a QR Code providing each garment's origin, material, production process and carbon footprint of the product. This technology provides customers more transparency about the clothes and better understanding on how to recycle the products in a move toward a circular fashion economy.
AW20 collection was themed around "waste". Products have been made from repurposed Turkish kilim remnants to make outerwear, old pieces from Hearst stock disassembled and reconstructed and 30% of the collection has been made with recycled cashmere, hand-knitted by the Mano del Uruguay collective.
The decoration of the runway show was made by giant shredded paper bales acted as visual metaphor of the "waste" theme.
Hearst sets a goal to use 80% deadstock in 2023 and no use of virgin materials by 2022.
Fusion
In November 2022, Hearst participated at the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (
CoP27
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) in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt) to discuss the critical role
fusion power
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has in the fight against climate change.
Hearst dedicated her
Chloé
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Spring Summer 2023 collection to creating awareness around
fusion energy
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, with her team they researched fusion and learnt from engineers, scientists and both the private sector (Commonwealth Fusion System and Helion Energy) and the public sector (Iter and the UK Atomic Energy Authority) to work on the collection.
Vanity Fair documented her visit to the tokamak building at the ITER campus in the South of France with an extensive article titled "How Chloé’s Gabriela Hearst Turned Her Climate Obsession Into High Fashion”
Notable clients
Hearst's collections have been worn by celebrities, including
Gillian Anderson
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,
Laura Dern
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Born to actor Bruce Dern and ac ...
,
Miroslava Duma
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,
Lena Dunham
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,
Dakota Fanning
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Selena Gomez
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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Anne Hathaway
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Rebecca Hall
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Naomi Harris,
Lauren Hutton,
Gwen Jorgesen,
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Brie Larson
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Emma Watson
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Allison Williams,
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Danai Gurira
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Lady Gaga
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Amal Clooney
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Amy Adams
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Uma Thurman
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Christine Baranski
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Carolyn Murphy
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
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Vanessa Kirby
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Julianna Margulies
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Gabrielle Union
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Lorena Ponce De León
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Jill Biden
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.
Collaborations
For the Fall 2016 collection, she partnered with
Manos del Uruguay, a nonprofit organization that pays living wages to craftswoman who handmade the tweeds using wool from her farm.
In April 2016, she collaborated with Peter Miles on the design of signature socks used as a parting gift for guests at the annual gala of ''
The Paris Review
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''.
In 2017, Hearst collaborated with an Italian mill
to produce cloth for fine wool suiting from merino wool from her ranch.
In March 2017, the store
Le Bon Marché
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offered Hearst a space to open her first
pop-up shop
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during
Paris Fashion Week
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.
Following the "no waste" approach of her Fall 2017 collection, Hearst collaborated with
Swarovski
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The company is split into three major industry areas: the Swarovski Crystal ...
, who donated stock crystals used on limited-edition starry-night-sky velvet slip dresses in runway looks during
New York Fashion Week
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.
For the
Met Gala
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in 2017, Hearst collaborated with
Laura Dern
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on the design of a modern gown with geometric cutouts and a removable polka dot train to honor the
Comme des Garçons
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style.
In August 2019, Gabriela Hearst opens its London store in
Mayfair
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, at 59 Brook Street. The store, designed in collaboration between Gabriela Hearst and architect
Lord Norman Foster
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, represents the brand's commitment to sustainable design, and shares a core design sensibility with the New York flagship store.
In February 2020, Gabriela Hearst announces its partnership with EON, a leading digital identity platform for the fashion and apparel industry, connecting products throughout their lifecycle by unlocking visibility, traceability, and insight through a
QR code
A QR code (an initialism for quick response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that can contain information about th ...
. The goal is to provide customers with more transparency by sharing the supply chain and giving them access to learn about their garment's journey.
In 2021, for its Spring Summer show, Gabriela Hearst collaborated with the
Navajo
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With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ...
community bringing the Americas craft together in a collection along the work of Uruguay and Bolivia, through the work of the non- for- profits they work with. She also showcased on the runway, its shoe collaboration with
Clergerie, the last remaining shoemaker that still produces its shoes in the French region of
Romans sur Isere.
Philanthropy
In June 2016, she started a collaboration with
Tod's
Tod's S.p.A., also known as Tod's Group, is an Italian company which produces luxury shoes and other leather goods. The company is majority controlled by the founding family Della Valle Family and is listed on the Italy's Milan Stock Exchange be ...
to update their classic slip-on sneaker with a men's brogue detail in
Morse code
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that reads "love"—20 percent of proceeds went to
Save the Children
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.
To promote the project, Gabriela Hearst organized a portrait project featuring
Dakota Fanning
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,
Miroslava Duma
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, Lindsey Adelman,
Lauren Hutton, and the
Save the Children
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donor Dorrit Morley and member Zaineb Malick.
In May 2017, Hearst produced a hundred pieces of a limited-edition sweater called Ram Ovaries. The design was a representation of strength symbolized by the use of a woman's reproductive system and ram's horns. The profits from the sales were used to support
Planned Parenthood
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.
In July 2017, upon learning that east Africa was facing its worst drought in 70 years, Hearst visited rural
Turkana County
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,
Kenya
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, with
Save the Children
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president and CEO
Carolyn Miles. In October 2017, Hearst partnered with
Net-a-Porter
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Yoox was originally founded by Federico Marchetti (businessman), Federico Marchetti ...
and
Bergdorf Goodman
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To ...
to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis by making her handbag collection available to the public for the first time. For one week only, bags were available for direct purchase online and at the Bergdorf Goodman store in New York. Gabriela Hearst pledged a donation of $600,000 to Save the Children to give more than 1,000 families of the Turkana region the ability to buy food, water, and livestock to help them survive the drought.
In September 2018, following several philanthropic campaigns, Hearst started serving on the
Save the Children
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's Board of Trustees.
In September 2019, in collaboration wit
MyTheresa Hearst launched an 18-piece capsule collection to mark
Save the Children
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centennial year. The collection, with colors inspired by the iconic logo of
Save the Children
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, comprises suits, maxi-length dresses and skirts, knitwear and coats. Twenty percent of the proceeds went to support the organization's Centennial Campaign.
From 2 to 9 December 2019, Hearst donated 100 per cent of her brand's net proceeds to
Save the Children
The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic ...
to support relief efforts in
war-torn Yemen. To support the initiative, Hearst also made her signature bags available for direct purchase online.
For the Spring Summer 2020 show, all guests received a scarf featuring a print of animals that've recently gone extinct, also, Hearst made donations in their name to
Our Children's Trust
Our Children's Trust is an American nonprofit public interest law firm based in Oregon that has filed several lawsuits on behalf of youth plaintiffs against state and federal governments, arguing that they are infringing on the youths' rights to a ...
, a nonprofit organization in Oregon that has filed lawsuits against governments for infringing on the children's right to a stable climate system.
From June 29 to July 12, 2020, Hearst teamed up with
Net a Porter for a limited two weeks initiative to support
Save the Children
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global relief efforts in the fight against
COVID-19
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. The collaboration featured Hearst signature bags Baez, Nina and Diana, that were made available in the "Bags of Purpose" sale on
Net a Porter.
Awards
Retail
Hearst is currently sold at more than 50 retailers in several countries, including Forty Five Ten,
Le Bon Marchè,
Net-a-Porter
YOOX Net-a-Porter Group S.p.A. is an Italian online fashion retailer created on 5 October 2015 after the merger between Yoox Group and Net-a-porter Group (NAP).
Yoox was originally founded by Federico Marchetti (businessman), Federico Marchetti ...
,
The Line,
Bergdorf Goodman
Bergdorf Goodman Inc. is a luxury department store based on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York. The company was founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf and was later owned and managed by Edwin Goodman, and later his son, Andrew Goodman.
To ...
,
Selfridges
Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high-end department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge ...
,
Matches Fashion
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History
Tom Chapman and Ruth Chapman opened the first store in Wimbledon Village in 1987, and opened an online store in 2007. ...
, Boon the Shop,
Lane Crawford
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Lane Crawford is a part of The Lane Crawford J ...
,
and others. In November 2018, Hearst opened its first flagship store, located on
Madison Avenue
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, adjacent to the New York institution that is the
Carlyle Hotel
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. Following Hearst's mission on
sustainability
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, the store was built without synthetics or
chemicals
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, using natural, non-treated reclaimed
oak
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. The lifestyle and fashion magazine
''Vogue'' has claimed it as "the most beautiful store in New York City".
Since January 2019, Gabriela Hearst has been working along with
Sir Norman Foster
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...
to design the first London flagship store, which occupies a corner of a late-19th-century building in
Mayfair
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. As all the aspects of Gabriela Hearst brand, every detail of the boutique has been dictated by sustainability. The custom-built Benchmark furniture has been made in
Hungerford
Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, west of Newbury, east of Marlborough, northeast of Salisbury and 60 miles (97 km) west of London. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the town alongside the ...
from a London plane tree that fell in a recent storm in Lincoln, the floor is reclaimed oak herringbone, the lights are on automatic dimmers, the leather has been dyed using non-toxic vegetable dyes, and the curtains are linen rather than cotton. The feeling of the store is described by Gabriela Hearst as "anti-retail", pervaded by serenity and calmness, avoiding the visual over-hyping.
Personal life
Gabriela Perezutti married
John "August" Augustine Hearst in 2013. She currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and their children.
References
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Uruguayan fashion designers
Uruguayan women fashion designers
Uruguayan emigrants to the United States
1976 births
Living people
Hearst family
People educated at The British Schools of Montevideo
People from Paysandú Department