• Website: gabrielahearst.com
• Founder: Gabriela Hearst
• Founded: 2015, New York, United States
• Ownership: Privately held (Gabriela Hearst)
• Known For: Nina Bags, Cashmere Knitwear, Sophisticated Tailoring, Artisanal Craftsmanship, Natural Materials, Sustainable Luxury
• Category Focus: Ready-to-Wear, Knitwear, Dresses, Tailoring, Handbags, Footwear, Accessories
Gabriela Hearst is a contemporary luxury fashion house renowned for its exceptional materials, artisanal craftsmanship, sophisticated tailoring, and deeply considered approach to sustainability. Founded in 2015 by Uruguayan-born designer Gabriela Hearst, the New York-based label combines the refinement of luxury fashion with values shaped by craftsmanship, longevity, natural materials, and responsible production.
Known for combining cashmere, fine tailoring, handcraft, leatherwork, feminine silhouettes, and understated design, Gabriela Hearst creates pieces intended to endure rather than respond primarily to short-lived trends. The designer's upbringing on her family's ranch in Uruguay has consistently informed her appreciation for quality, utility, natural materials, and objects made to last.
Today, Gabriela Hearst spans ready-to-wear, knitwear, dresses, tailoring, handbags, footwear, and accessories, with the sculptural Nina Bag becoming one of the house's defining signatures. Its current collection extends that vocabulary through artisanal cashmere, leather, tailoring, crochet, and sophisticated accessories.
Nina Bag
Demi Bag
Diana Bag
Baez Bag
Cashmere Knitwear
Tailored Suits
Hand-Crocheted Dresses
Leather Boots
Gabriela Hearst grew up on her family's ranch in Uruguay before building her fashion career in New York. Her background shaped a philosophy centered on quality, functionality, natural materials, craftsmanship, and longevity—principles that would eventually become fundamental to her namesake house.
Hearst established Gabriela Hearst in 2015, developing a luxury wardrobe that approached sustainability as part of product quality rather than a separate marketing concept. Handcrafted knitwear, tailoring, leather goods, and limited-production handbags helped establish a distinct alternative to conventional luxury.
Key Milestones:
• 2015: Gabriela Hearst launches her namesake luxury label in New York, building its identity around craftsmanship, exceptional materials, and longevity.
• 2016: The Nina Bag emerges as one of the young house's defining products and quickly gains attention within fashion circles.
• 2019: Hearst stages what was widely reported as the first carbon-neutral runway show, reinforcing environmental responsibility as a central part of her fashion practice.
• 2020: Hearst is appointed creative director of Chloé, taking her sustainability-focused approach to an established Parisian luxury house.
• 2023: Hearst concludes her tenure at Chloé after helping advance the house's environmental initiatives, including its achievement of B Corp certification.
• 2024: Hearst receives a TIME Earth Award recognizing her work around sustainability and clean-energy advocacy.
• 2026: Gabriela Hearst presents Fall/Winter 2026 in Paris, drawing inspiration from humanitarian and social reformer Eglantyne Jebb.
Gabriela Hearst continues demonstrating how craftsmanship, material excellence, environmental responsibility, and understated elegance can coexist within a modern luxury house.
“Gabriela Hearst defines thoughtful modern luxury through exceptional materials, artisanal craftsmanship, timeless design, and environmental responsibility.”
Gabriela Hearst matters because she has helped demonstrate that environmental responsibility and traditional luxury craftsmanship do not need to exist in opposition.
Her influence can be seen across:
• Sustainable Luxury
• Contemporary American Fashion
• Artisanal Craftsmanship
• Quiet Luxury
By combining natural materials, exceptional construction, restrained design, artisanal techniques, and environmental considerations, Hearst has developed an alternative definition of modern luxury based on substance and longevity. Her work at both her namesake house and Chloé has also helped bring sustainability discussions deeper into mainstream luxury fashion.
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