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.
The scalloped details, which Aghion applied to a cotton piqué dress in her 1960 show at Brasserie Lipp appeared as top-stitching on georgette blouses, in leather petals or patchwork denim, as a quilting technique, and along the cuffs of knitwear.
[29] 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 be turned into a sleeping bag) to homeless people.
Cashmere pillows for guests were knitted by the nonprofit organization Manos del Uruguay from excess yarn from her previous collection[34] and seven sets of clothes were made with existing fabrics and materials.
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.
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.
[47] 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".
At this event hosted by the Atlantic Council, the U.S. officially launched its first international fusion strategy, presented by John Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
[49] Hearst's collections have been worn by celebrities, including Gillian Anderson,[50] Laura Dern,[51] Miroslava Duma,[52] Lena Dunham,[53] Dakota Fanning,[54] Selena Gomez,[55] Gugu Mbatha-Raw,[56] Anne Hathaway,[57] Rebecca Hall,[58] Naomi Harris,[59] Lauren Hutton,[60] Gwen Jorgesen,[61] Mindy Kaling,[62] Brie Larson,[63] Demi Moore,[19] Emma Stone,[64] Emma Watson,[65] Allison Williams,[66] Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,[67][68] Catherine, Princess of Wales,[69] Zoe Kravitz,[70] Oprah,[71] Diane Lane,[72] Carey Mulligan,[73] Julia Roberts,[74] Danai Gurira,[75] Patricia Clarkson,[76] Gemma Chan,[77] Hilary Swank,[78] Lady Gaga,[79] Amal Clooney,[80] Amy Adams,[81] Uma Thurman,[82] Christine Baranski,[83] Carolyn Murphy,[83] Rosie Huntington-Whiteley,[84] Vanessa Kirby,[85] Julianna Margulies,[86] Glenn Close,[87] Gabrielle Union,[88] Angelina Jolie,[89] Lorena Ponce De León,[90]Jill Biden[91] and Jodie Comer.
[92][93] 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.
[98] Following the "no waste" approach of her Fall 2017 collection, Hearst collaborated with Swarovski,[99] who donated stock crystals used on limited-edition starry-night-sky velvet slip dresses in runway looks during New York Fashion Week.
[32][33] For the Met Gala in 2017, Hearst collaborated with Laura Dern on the design of a modern gown with geometric cutouts and a removable polka dot train to honor the Comme des Garçons style.
[100] 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.
[104] 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.
Each individual star was hand-crafted from recycled silver and glass beads and hand-embroidered in place to appear as they would be seen in the night sky of the Great Plains on the summer solstice, including the Orion and the Pleiades constellations.
[108] In June 2016, she started a collaboration with Tod's to update their classic slip-on sneaker with a men's brogue detail in Morse code that reads "love"[109]—20 percent of proceeds went to Save the Children.
[112] In July 2017, upon learning that east Africa was facing its worst drought in 70 years, Hearst visited rural Turkana County, Kenya, with Save the Children president and CEO Carolyn Miles.
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.
[121] Hearst is sold at more than 50 retailers in several countries, including Forty Five Ten,[7] Le Bon Marchè,[98] The Line,[2] Bergdorf Goodman,[140] Selfridges,[140] Matches Fashion,[141] Boon the Shop,[13] Lane Crawford,[123] and others.
The custom-built Benchmark furniture has been made in Hungerford 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.
[143] On November 9, 2023, Hearst opened the first store and flagship on the West Coast on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills,[144] 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 Hearst's family ranch in Uruguay.