Famed for being the holy grail of "It" bags and loved by Hollywood celebrities, the Hermès Birkin is the most iconic bag of ...

The story began in 1981, when Jane Birkin, the French-English ... The anecdote goes something like this: Birkin had brought along a simple straw bag, but as she attempted to store it in the ...

In 2022, one of Jane’s very own vintage Birkin bags sold in the UK for £119,000 at Bonhams. Today, a standard Birkin bag goes for approximately $10,000 US dollars. Yet the paragon of wealth and ...

Jane Birkin, who was travelling with a simple straw tote, complained about the structure of leather bags, which led to the two of them doodling a bag on the back of an airsickness bag The Hermès ...