{"id":373424,"date":"2026-04-03T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373424\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:02:15","slug":"gabriela-hearst-and-artist-adam-pendleton-release-limited-edition-nina-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373424\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriela Hearst and Artist Adam Pendleton Release Limited-edition Nina Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/tag\/gabriela-hearst\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gabriela-hearst\" data-tag=\"gabriela-hearst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriela Hearst<\/a> and artist Adam Pendleton have released a series of limited-edition Nina bags that erase the boundaries between painting, sculpture and design. Each unique bag is hand-painted and signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHearst\u2019s original Nina bag was named in tribute to iconic musician and activist Nina Simone. In 2017, Pendleton, along with fellow artists Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson and Julie Mehretu, purchased Simone\u2019s childhood home in Tryon, N.C., to preserve her legacy. Net sales proceeds of the limited-edition bag will benefit the Nina Simone Childhood Home, preserved by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHearst and Pendleton reimagined the bag as an art object and a site for painterly intervention. Pendleton treated each bag as a portable canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA total of 25 individually signed and numbered bags will be available for purchase exclusively through Sotheby\u2019s, a longstanding supporter of the Nina Simone Childhood Home. The collection will be on view at the Sotheby\u2019s Salon in New York, located within the auction house\u2019s new headquarters at the Breuer building at 945 Madison Avenue from Friday through April 26.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-wwd-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/05_GHXAdamPendleton__0009.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-painted Nina bag \" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"683\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tOne of the limited-edition hand-painted Nina bags by artist Adam Pendleton and <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/business-news\/human-resources\/gabriela-hearst-president-interview-1238450979\/\" id=\"related_article_link_gabriela-hearst\" data-tag=\"gabriela-hearst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriela Hearst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Gabriela Hearst<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cUsing Gabriela\u2019s Nina bag as a canvas to honor Nina Simone\u2019s life and legacy made immediate sense to me,\u201d Pendleton said. \u201cThe contours of the bag are as iconic as Nina Simone\u2019s voice and her artistic courage. I\u2019m proud to make an object people can carry with them \u2014 one that reinforces the possibilities of art, life and meaningful collaboration. Nina Simone refused to separate beauty from truth \u2014 that\u2019s something I think about in my own work, and something this project with Gabriela aims to carry forward so Nina\u2019s name and music will be known for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHearst said, \u201cThis was a project of careful thoroughness and thought process in honor of Nina Simone, a muse and an inspiration for us. The reward was not only paying homage to Nina Simone, but also that a new friendship was created with Adam Pendleton.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriela Hearst and artist Adam Pendleton have released a series of limited-edition Nina bags that erase the boundaries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,38391,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-373424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gabriela-hearst","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}