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Gabriela Hearst
Gabriela Hearst is a New York luxury fashion house founded in 2015 by Uruguayan designer Gabriela Hearst. The independent label spans womenswear, menswear and accessories and connects material craft with lower-impact production goals. It opened its first flagship in New York in 2018, accepted a minority investment from LVMH Luxury Ventures in 2019 and staged its first carbon-neutral runway show that year. The investor is not the parent company, and private investment information is not presented as audited brand revenue.
- Country
- United States
- Founded
- 2015
- Founder
- Gabriela Hearst
- Documented milestones
- 5
- Gabriela Hearst — Founder and Creative Director2015–Present · house · current · Gabriela Hearst
- 2015 — House foundedGabriela Hearst launches her namesake house in New York.
- 2016 — Nina bag introducedThe limited-distribution Nina bag becomes an early house signature.
- 2018 — New York flagshipThe first flagship opens on Madison Avenue.
- 2019 — Minority investmentLVMH Luxury Ventures takes a minority stake.
- 2020 — CFDA womenswear awardHearst wins American Womenswear Designer of the Year.