Since its inception in 1984, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the ultimate status symbol when it comes to luxury accessories. The bag, which was named after actress Jane Birkin, can start at an upwards of $10,000 and can go well into the six-figure range. And even if you have the money to burn, some styles of Birkins…
In July, Jane Birkin told Hermés she wanted her named taken off Birkin Bags made with crocodile skins, as she’d learned from a PETA exposé that the company had been mistreating crocodiles at the farm they sourced the materials for the bags from.
The latest WWD has a piece on how individual designers interpret women's struggles in fashion, pegged in part to the "feminist protest" Karl Lagerfeld staged for Chanel's Spring 2015 runway. And, predictably, Karl says some pretty wacky things about it. Side eye.
There is a Birkin bag made of crocodile and diamonds headed for auction right now and you can buy it, for the low, low price of $200,000 or an ivy league education in America. Who doesn’t have that kind of cash lying around, you know?
There's a new, hilarious twist in the "million dollar" burglary of Theresa Roemer's infamous three-story closet: the jewels and designer handbags that were stolen were all fakes. This is according to the alleged thief, who recently reached out to the media.
Well, at least it's not a shirt that costs $91,500? At least there's that.
Bleh. Seven days out of Cliffside, where Lindsay Lohan served her 90 days of court-ordered rehab, she has allegedly been spotted partying with her friend-and-occasional-hookup Max George and sister Ali in Los Angeles. The party went all night, and a "source" (a pigeon? That disgusting oil heir Brandon "Firecrotch"…
Here is an Hermès "T-shirt" made of crocodile and chiffon. It costs $91,500, and it's for sale at the luxury brand's Madison Avenue flagship store.
French police have busted a counterfeit ring that sold fake Hermès bags through a parallel distribution network in Asia, the U.S., and Europe. Two Hermès employees have been fired, and more are believed to have been involved. Police raids on the Paris workshops where the bags were apparently made — they were filled…
Days after commercial photographer Tyler Shields and his reality-TV-star girlfriend Francesca Eastwood hit headlines for lighting a $100,000 Hermès Birkin on fire for a photo shoot — and, astonishingly, facing subsequent criticism on the grounds of wastefulness, tackiness, and making bad photos — tongues are a-wagging…
California celebuspawn Francesca Eastwood got into some hot water recently when photographs taken by her boyfriend of eight months, Tyler Shields, ignited a fierce tabloid backlash. Eastwood, who is depicted lighting an Hermès Birkin bag on fire — one of the world's most coveted luxury goods, a handbag people pay tens…
It's simultaneously depressing and fun that a YouTube search for "my birkin" yields a subculture: pages upon pages of posted videos from psyched consumers (some regular fashion video bloggers, some in areas of the country that don't have accessible Hermès stores) displaying their goods. A number of the videos don't…
Swiss writer Jeroen van Rooijen uses a seam-ripper to take apart iconic fashion items. Here, from his book Zerlegt ("Dissassembled") is a picture of an Hermès Kelly bag.
Jane Birkin, for whom the $5,000 Hermès tote was named, has only owned four Birkins in her lifetime. "I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough," she says. But they get a lot of use. "Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and…
The hourglass Simmons keeps in her wardrobe is filled with "over 5000 little diamonds. And they're real." ("Over 5000 cubic zirconias" doesn't have the same ring.) This, her "satellite closet," she warns is only "a smaller version of the Mothership."
