This season marks 50 years of fashion weeks in Paris. What, for you, makes Paris Fashion Week® unlike any other?
The execution, governance and the organization of Paris Fashion Week® shows the fact that there is an established legacy. And this strengthens the fact that creativity can thrive in a city like Paris. It’s very clear that Paris is the number one city for fashion weeks.
What is distinctive about this collection – in concept and creation?
What’s distinctive is the effort to evolve but also with the balance of the concept and the desirability of the actual object or piece. We wanted to tell whoever was looking at the audience and remind people that for millennia, we have prayed female. And the correlation of respecting and revealing female in nature is undoubtable and it can spring back as fast as we collectively acknowledge it.
What feels most Parisian about Gabriela Hearst?
The tradition and the love of craft.
Paris is so anchored in craftsmanship but most of this takes place in France. Why is it important to you to showcase and support craftsmanship from other parts of the world?
In the world that we live in today that is unfair in different parts of the world but there are still a lot of talented hands to create beautiful work, especially in ways that empower women in disadvantaged areas, we not only have the responsibilities as creatives, we have the obligations as humans.
Can you suggest a mantra as we look ahead to 2025?
Quality over quantity.
This interview has been lightly edited.
