Adam Pendleton for Gabriela Hearst

Nina, 2025

Adam Pendleton for Gabriela Hearst

Limited Edition Nina bag

Each unique, hand painted by the artist and silkscreened on Ivory Duchess Satin, Interior lined with Black Satin, Silver Hardware

Edition 2/25, signed and numbered on a black card inserted in the inside pocket

Includes dust bag and box

Published by Sharon Coplan

To Benefit the Nina Simone Childhood Home

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Artist Adam Pendleton and designer Gabriela Hearst present a limited-edition of twenty-five handpainted Nina bags that collapse the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and design. Each bag is hand-painted, signed, and entirely unique.

Curated and published by Sharon Coplan, the project positions Pendleton's iconic visual language in direct dialogue with one contemporary fashion's most recognizable silhouettes, reimagining the bag as an art object and a site for painterly intervention.

Legendary musician and activist Nina Simone is a touchstone for both Hearst and Pendleton. Gabriela Hearst's original Nina bag, named in tribute to Nina Simone, has become a defining silhouette in contemporary fashion. In 2017, Pendleton along with fellow artists Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, and Julie Mehretu, purchased Nina Simone's childhood home to preserve the musician's legacy. Proceeds from the sales 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.

"Using Gabriela's Nina bag as a canvas to honor Nina Simone's life and legacy made immediate sense to me," says Pendleton. "The contours of the bag are as iconic as Nina Simone's voice and her artistic courage. I'm proud to make an object people can carry with them - one that reinforces the possibilities of art, life, and meaningful collaboration. Nina Simone refused to separate beauty from truth - that's something I think about in my own work, and something this project with Gabriela aims to carry forward so Nina's name and music will be known for generations to come."

Gabriela Hearst says, "This 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, also that new friendships was created with Adam Pendleton.