They say you can’t put a price on style but apparently, at Sotheby’s this July, someone di. And the number was $10 million.
Yes, that’s how much Jane Birkin’s actual Hermès Birkin bag, the one that started it all sold for. It wasn’t just any bag. It was the actual bag. The scuffed, sticker covered, life-lived version that inspired a fashion empire and outlived trends, recessions, and even the rise of micro bags.
Was it the bag they were buying or the woman?
We all know the story 1981, Jane Birkin mets Jean Louis Dumas of Hermès on a flight from Paris to London.She spills the content from her straw bag and out ignited a revolution.Together, they sketched a design that would become a symbol, The Birkin Bag.
And now, four decades later, the very bag she carried, covered in stickers, with the handle soft from years of touch, sold for more than a Manhattan penthouse.
Jane carried her Birkin because it worked for her life.For many of us, a Birkin isn’t just about arriving, its about aspiring, to feel closer to that effortless kind of elegance she embodied.
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