The Gabriela Hearst Agustina Resort 2027 collection embodies the house’s commitment to artisanship, material, color, and form. It is also a study of introspection and intimacy.
In the process of creating the collection, Hearst was inspired by the writings of a friend, Agustina Chiarino Voulminot. Battling a severe illness, Agustina began to process her experience through journaling. Agustina’s prose moved Hearst to paint — a longstanding aspect of the designer’s creative practice. Hearst uses pages of Agustina’s poems as a canvas and floods them with watercolors. The result directly informs the season’s core silhouettes and motifs.
A desert-sky palette of gradient ambers, crimson, violets, and greys translates Hearst’s meditations on paper into the designs. Pale blush, citrine, light blue, and camel combine in color-block quadrants on pearlescent soft organza in a layerable jacket, skirt, blouse, dress, and camisole. Repurposed soft cotton twill is hand-sprayed to bring a watercolor effect to trenchcoats and trousers. For tailoring, botanical dyes on house signature sea island corduroy and double silk satin recreate a washed, natural texture in slip dresses, tops, skirts, and cargo pants.
Several of the season’s styles are co-created with Josh Tafoya, a designer and weaver born in the American southwest whose genderless work draws from his Spanish Genizaro-Chicano heritage. Tafoya takes the house’s deadstock Welfat cashmere yarns and weaves them into patches on knitwear, combos on Capitana and Cassidy cowboy boots, and panels framed with blanket stitching on a bi-color lightweight double-face cashmere coat in reversible camel and citrine.
Cashmere knits by Manos del Uruguay, a non-profit cooperative supporting women weavers, draw attention to textural details through techniques such as pebble stitching and pointelle in unisex cardigans with exaggerated zip collars. Irregularities occur naturally from the artisanal process and make each knit unique.
The house continues to expand the material possibilities of lace. In leather, signature floral lace patterns are laser-cut into ivory suede for a light slip dress, button-down shirt, and skirt. Woven in Italy in lilac, crimson, navy, and ivory, sea island cotton lace is encrusted with knit and silk in slip dresses and separates. Chocolate brown meets navy in lace bow blouses. Scarlet meets lilac in delicate lace bralettes designed for layering. Lace gives shape to the season’s new cape silhouette in lilac and black: a modular chemise that can cover the shoulders or be let down for a backless drape.
The cape silhouette is found in ivory and cobalt blue drawn from Hearst’s watercolors, as dresses in twisted high-shine 100% Italian silk tape, hand-knotted by Madres & Artesanas, a women-led collective in La Paz, Bolivia. The group’s exceptional needlework is showcased in kaftan gowns and Ruana wrap and ladder stitching.
A long-sleeve top and dress hand-embroidered with house patterns evokes blue and white porcelain Delftware in Italian merino wool. Metal-woven silk in black and champagne sculpt tailored blazers and trousers and a puff-sleeved gown that can be molded by the wearer like clay. Materials are juxtaposed throughout the collection, bridging leather, lace, wool, and silk in handkerchief hemmed dresses and asymmetrical fringed gowns. The collection’s signature hardware brings rose gold in dialogue with wood. Contrasts find harmony in outerwear: reversible double-faced cashmere trenches; a bomber in two-toned recycled mink that goesagainst the grain.
Flared pants with scallop edging in suede open when worn to expose internal godet pleat details in bold striped wool. In recycled indigo denim, scalloped flares pair with a pebbled leather patch pocket denim jacket. Custom shadow plaid adapts the season’s watercolor palette for wool ca a shmere slip dresses, western shirts, and tailoring, and on printed silk twill as button-down shirt and pleated skirt.
Borders are e h irts xplored throughout the collection — in tipping details on pyjama summer sand dresses, loafers, and nappa leather bags trimmed with contrast piping in blue and bordeaux. Fur-stitched silk and wool fringes feature on coats, skirts, and gowns, and accent the cuffs of the season’s motorcycle jacket. Raffia appears on shoes and soft demi handbags in sheeny black and tricolor ivory, black, and bordeaux with rose gold hardware. Scale is exaggerated in enlarged, pointed collars on women’s blouses and in new miniaturized versions of the Gabriela Hearst Marija folded tote.
Jewelry wise, the collection features a pair of 18K gold octagonal-cut ruby earrings with diamond drops. The certified natural untreated rubies are 2.4 and 2.5 carats and sourced specifically to bring a watercolor sketch by Gabriela to life.
Photographed by Senta Simond and styled by Camilla Nickerson, the Agustina Resort 2027 lookbook was shot among the dunes of a quarry near Paris, where Sarah Brown, Leon Dame, and Iris Lasnet, a sheepherder, model the collection against a backdrop of bright white sand.