| Gabriela Hearst Spring 2027 is a womenswear collection focused on Afghan women and traditional craft practices. The collection was presented at the Petit Palais in Paris. Hearst collaborated with Turquoise Mountain to involve Afghan artisans in textile and jewelry production. She described Afghanistan’s roughly 22 million women as the collection’s muses. |
Gabriela Hearst has long treated materials as more than a question of surface. For Spring 2027, that approach becomes particularly specific. Gabriela Hearst Spring 2027 looks to Afghanistan, its recent history and the work of women who continue to maintain textile, embroidery and jewelry traditions under difficult circumstances.
The collection developed through a partnership with Turquoise Mountain, the nonprofit organization that supports artisan communities and traditional skills in Afghanistan. Rather than simply borrowing familiar Afghan references, Hearst worked with makers whose expertise forms part of the culture being discussed. Their contribution appears in miniature painting, embroidery, weaving and jewelry.
That distinction matters. Fashion often turns traditional craft into visual shorthand, removing techniques from...