If Jane Birkin, an icon of Swinging London, globetrotter of vocation, it had never existed, perhaps women would never longed to win a Birkin. Jane is beautiful, different, a bit outsider contemporary married John Barry (author of some great music for the James Bond film), to 19 years. The note bore the screen topless in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-up, her face an intriguing and androgynous beauty timeless. A muse. Musa and his wife for Serge Gainsbourg * video * up to 1980.
Legend has it that four years later Jean-Louis Dumas, sitting beside her on a flight from London to Paris, captivated by Jane rummaging in the big wicker bag without finding anything, promised to design a bag that best suits your needs. Thus was born the historic Birkin, the holy grail of handbags, with style, class and elegance attracts everyone from the youngest to the most elderly. The Birkin even seduced Gaultier who designed the rebellious daughter Jypsière.
To look good looks like Jane Birkin: beautiful but not flashy, soft but not flabby, serious but not sad, seductive but not goose. Handcrafted by artisans of the fashion house, Hermes Birkin each takes about 20 hours of work, 4 sizes: 25 cm, 30 cm, 35 cm, 40 cm and is available in many colors and leathers: Togo, the most popular scratch-proof soft and light, the grain effect Clemence mat Fiord waterproof and consistent, the classic Box Calf leather Calf light and delicate, sandbanks, Epsom, and finally the rare skin Chevre, goat skin very rigid but lightweight. The Hermes handbags faulty or out of production are destroyed. Object of desire in the wish list of women after 30, it costs about 6000 euro, in the base model and a waiting list of about 2 months, I omit the details of the bags more expensive (like crocodile, 12,000 euros).
Given the cost of the fellowship and the desire to possess it, we women are born are numerous “copies”. Some scams are real, that is false, which are passed off as real, others are declared to conform to the authentic, others are “Birkin” soul, that is cloning the model, but finishing materials and proportions are different.
In this frenzy of desire and disdain do? Give up? There are those who wrote and sells guides available on ebay, how to buy the bag of dreams without be fooled, there are those who try to convince you that it is better to copy from 30 euros, at least put it and not ruin .
So after the timeshare and car sharing, it is the turn of the “bag-sharing”? If 12 friends, 500 euros each buy a Birkin will be entitled to use them for 4 weeks a year, an idea, who does not believe that the Hermes handbag is absolutely personal property. But something has already changed for these super-luxury goods, in fact there is a rental, which seems a good compromise between price and desire, so the bag is “temporarily” yours! KLQ.