Gabriela Hearst Fall 2021 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Gabriela Hearst was talking up Hildegard of Bingen on a Zoom call. A writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, and Benedictine abbess, Hildegard was a regular Renaissance woman, except that she predated the Renaissance by about two centuries. “I’m convinced,” Hearst said, “that if she had been a man we’d know her name like we do Leonardo da Vinci’s.” In fact, Hildegard sketched a Universal Man, not unlike Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, only hers was completed 300 years earlier. Rather belatedly Pope Benedict XVI made her a Doctor of the Church in 2012. Hildegard resonates with Hears...
Source: vogue.com