A fortnight ago, at Sotheby’s in Paris, the bag Hermès executive Jean-Louis Dumas made for Jane Birkin – the original Birkin bag – sold for €8.6 million. That is the highest price ever fetched at ...

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Jane Birkin was an actress and a singer who became the face of French girl beauty. In the early 1980s, she inspired the design of the iconic Hermès Birkin bag. The mother-of-three was born in 1946; ...

It cost a whole bag of money. The original Hermès Birkin handbag made for actress, singer and fashion icon Jane Birkin in 1984 has sold at auction for a staggering €7 million ($8.18 million). With ...

Back in July, Jane Birkin’s original Birkin bag—the bag named after the actress by Hermès that has become synonymous with wealth, glamour and unattainability—sold at auction for $10.1 million, which ...

One of the most legendary handbags in high fashion history, the original Le Birkin bag has just sold for a whopping €8.5 million ($10 million). The stylish, if battered, black leather bespoke piece ...

PARIS (AP) — Sketched out on an air sickness bag, the first Birkin handbag — the prototype for fashion’s must-have accessory — sold for a staggering 8.6 million euros ($10.1 million), including fees, ...

Some of the world's most iconic products weren't born in boardrooms. They came from moments of pure inconvenience. Case in point: the Hermès Birkin. In 1983, actress Jane Birkin struggled to fit her ...

Bella Hadid's Cannes tribute and other occasions where Jane Birkin's iconic style is inspiring celebrity fashion in 2026.

The original prototype Hermès Birkin bag that belonged to the now-iconic accessory's inspiration, the actor and singer Jane Birkin, sold for over $10 million at a Sotheby's auction on Thursday in ...

The bag was made for the actress after a chance encounter with then-Hermès CEO Jean-Louis Dumas in 1984 Marc Piasecki/WireImage; Sotheby's Jane Birkin's 'The Original Birkin' handbag is going up for ...