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Gabriela Hearst's Clothes are Beautiful and Political

Gabriela Hearst makes fantasy clothes for real women. Take the navy double breasted cashmere a-line coat that opened her first-ever runway show; it had a hint of belonging into a queen’s wardrobe, and yet paired with merino knit long johns and white boots with a sensible (albeit heavily embellished) heels, it was a coat you could see yourself wearing everyday. For the South American designer, the fantasy is not in becoming a “punk princess,” or a “french ingenue,” or whatever other thing designe