Gabriela Hearst is a Uruguayan women's luxury ready-to-wear and accessories designer.
30 Facts About Gabriela Hearst
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In January 2016, Gabriela Hearst was included in the "Ten of Tomorrow" by Women's Wear Daily.
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In January 2019, LVMH Luxury Ventures, the fund launched by French luxury giant LVMH to support "already iconic" emerging brands, invested in Gabriela Hearst, allowing the brand to expand their presence around the world.
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In January 2021 Gabriela Hearst designed the dress worn by First Lady Dr Jill Biden 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 DC.
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In December 2021 Gabriela Hearst was nominated by the Financial Times as one of the 25 most influential women of the year.
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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.
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Gabriela Hearst designed the costumes for the world premiere of female-first Carmen at San Francisco Ballet as part of Dos Mujeres, the company's first-ever double bill of works by Latina choreographers.
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In 2025, Gabriela Hearst was included in the inaugural National Geographic 33, a list honoring 33 global changemakers recognized for their impact in fields such as science, culture, and social innovation.
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In December 2020 Gabriela Hearst was named Creative Director of Chloe, the luxury pret-a-porter brand launched in 1952 by Gaby Aghion.
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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.
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Gabriela Hearst collaborated with nonprofit founder Bass Timmer to create backpacks made from deadstock, whose sales will donate two Sheltersuits to homeless people.
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On February 14,2017, Gabriela Hearst presented its first runway show at the Refectory of the High Line Hotel.
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In November 2022, Gabriela Hearst participated at the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Sharm El-Sheikh to discuss the critical role fusion power has in the fight against climate change.
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Gabriela Hearst dedicated her Chloe Spring Summer 2023 collection to creating awareness around fusion energy, with her team they researched fusion and learnt from engineers, scientists and both the private sector and the public sector to work on the collection.
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Vanity Fair documented her visit to the tokamak building at the ITER campus in the South of France with an extensive article titled "How Chloe's Gabriela Hearst Turned Her Climate Obsession Into High Fashion".
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In 2017, Gabriela Hearst collaborated with an Italian mill to produce cloth for fine wool suiting from merino wool from her ranch.
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In 2021, for its Spring Summer show, Gabriela Hearst collaborated with the Navajo 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.
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Gabriela Hearst 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.
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The Gabriela Hearst Autumn Winter 2023 show was inspired by Irish artist, architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray, who was a pioneer of the modernist movement that began in the 1920s.
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In May 2017, Gabriela Hearst produced a hundred pieces of a limited-edition sweater called Ram Ovaries.
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In July 2017, upon learning that east Africa was facing its worst drought in 70 years, Gabriela Hearst visited rural Turkana County, Kenya, with Save the Children president and CEO Carolyn Miles.
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In October 2017, Gabriela Hearst partnered with Net-a-Porter and Bergdorf Goodman to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis by making her handbag collection available to the public for the first time.
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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.
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In September 2018, following several philanthropic campaigns, Gabriela Hearst started serving on the Save the Children's Board of Trustees.
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In September 2019, in collaboration with MyTheresa, Gabriela Hearst launched an 18-piece capsule collection to mark Save the Children centennial year.
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From 2 to 9 December 2019, Gabriela Hearst donated 100 per cent of her brand's net proceeds to Save the Children to support relief efforts in war-torn Yemen.
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From June 29 to July 12,2020, Gabriela Hearst teamed up with Net-a-Porter for a limited two weeks initiative to support Save the Children global relief efforts in the fight against COVID-19.
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In November 2018, Gabriela Hearst opened its first flagship store, located on Madison Avenue, adjacent to the New York institution that is the Carlyle Hotel.
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Since January 2019, Gabriela Hearst has been working along with Sir Norman Foster to design the first London flagship store, which occupies a corner of a late-19th-century building in Mayfair.
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On November 9,2023, Gabriela Hearst opened the first store and flagship on the West Coast on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, designed by Foster + Partners led by Norman Foster and featuring a bespoke 'Nomad' furniture collection by Benji Gavron and Antoine Dumas of Gavron Dumas Studio, with an emphasis on natural materials inspired by Gabriela Hearst's family ranch in Uruguay.