Shop For Good: Gabriela Hearst’s Handbags Are Now On Net-A-Porter

In support of Save The Children, the designer has pledged a donation of $600,000 and made her collection available online for a limited time.

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From October 1 to 8, fans coveting Gabriela Hearst’s lust-worthy Nina handbags can purchase them from Net-A-Porter and Bergdorf Goodman.

Previously available only via wait-list (which boasts about 1,500 names at any given time), this will be the first time Hearst’s bags are available for immediate purchase online, to raise awareness for Save the Children.

Above Gabriela Hearst's Nina handbag (Photos: Courtesy of gabrielahearst.com and net-a-porter.com)

Known for her environmental and social activism efforts—Hearst collaborated with Tod’s for a limited edition ‘Love’ shoe benefitting Save the Children in 2016, and produced 100 ‘Ram-Ovaries’ sweaters in support of Planned Parenthood in May this year—the pledge came after the designer’s visit to rural Turkana County in Kenya, where she witnessed first-hand the devastation of famine, which is threatening more than 20 million families in Kenya and its neighbouring countries.

“Currently, one in eight children under five years old in parts of the region now suffers from severe acute malnutrition and is at risk of dying from drought-related hunger,” Hearst said. “We can’t continue to think that starvation is a problem of past generations or our parent’s global problem, this is real and happening right now in front of us. It is time to act as humane global citizens and make this aid immediately available.”

Above Designer Gabriela Hearst and Save the Children President & CEO Carolyn Miles meet with a woman and her family in Turkana County, Kenya, in July 2017 (Photo: Courtesy of Peter Caton for Save the Children)

Hearst’s US$600,000 donation will go toward providing monthly cash grants (of about US$55) to the affected families so that they can purchase food, livestock, and clean water to tide over the drought. She hopes it will encourage more donors to step forward and support the cause.

“While in Turkana, I learned that more than 1,000 families in need were not being reached by Save the Children due to lack of funds. To reach them with cash grants through to the next harvest several months from now, Save the Children calculated it would cost around $600,000 and that is what I am committed to donating.”

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Shop For Good: Gabriela Hearst’s Handbags Are Now On Net-A-Porter