The Birkin bag is a personal luggage or tote accessory by HermÃÆ'¨ s that is handmade in leather and is named after actress and singer Jane Birkin. The bag is currently in fashion as a symbol of wealth because of its high price and is used by celebrities. Birkins are the most popular handbags with handbag collectors, and Victoria Beckham has more than 100 of them.
The price ranges from US $ 11,900 to $ 300,000. The cost increases according to the skin type and if the exotic skin is used. Bags are distributed to HermÃÆ'¨s boutiques on an unpredictable schedule and in limited quantities, creating scarcity and artificial exclusivity. Small version (25 cm) can be considered as handbag or purse.
Video Birkin bag
Histori
In 1983, the chief executive of HermÃÆ'¨s Jean-Louis Dumas sat next to Jane Birkin on a flight from Paris to London. He had just laid a straw travel bag in the compartment above for his chair, but it fell to the deck, making it scramble to replace him. Birkin explained to Dumas that it was very difficult to find a leather weekend bag that he liked.
In 1984, he made a black bending leather bag for him, based on the 1982 design. He used the bag at first, but changed his mind because he carried too much stuff in it: "What's the use of having the second one?" he said with a laugh. "You just need one and that's destroying your arm, they're bloody heavy, I have surgery for tendonitis on the shoulder." Nevertheless, since then, the bag has become a status symbol.
However, in July 2015, Birkin asked HermÃÆ'¨s to stop using his name for the crocodile version due to ethical concerns, because PETA suspects crocodile farms are supplying the skin to HermÃÆ'¨s as bag-making stuffs their animals into barren concrete holes.. "At the age of one year, crocodiles are shot with rifles or rough-cuts as they are conscious and can feel pain," said PETA. Birkin was quoted as having asked Hermes "to baptize Birkin Croco until a better practice according to international norms can be put into effect".
Maps Birkin bag
Design
Birkin bags are sold in various sizes. Each can be custom-made with a wide selection of equipment, colors and hardware selected by customers. There are other individual choices, such as diamond diamonds.
- This bag is also available in various skins like cowhide, lizard, and ostrich. Among the most expensive ones used to be saltwater crocodile skins and bags with smaller scales are more expensive than larger scales. Each bag is lined with goat skin, interior color that matches the exterior. Prices for Birkin bags depend on skin type, color, and hardware equipment.
- Sizes range from 25-, 30-, 35-, to 40-centimeters, with 50- and 55-centimeter traveling bags. It is also present in various colors such as black, brown, tan gold, sea blue, olive green, orange, pink, blue, red, and white powder.
- Bags have keys and keys. The keys are flanked by a leather strap known as clochette , carried by wrapping it through the handle. The bag is locked by closing the top flap above the buckle loop, wrapping the buckle strap, or closing the lock on the front hardware. Locks and keys are numbered. The start key only contains one number at the bottom of the key. In recent years, HermÃÆ'¨s has added a second number under the key Hermes cap. The numbers for the keys may be the same for hundreds of keys, as they are the batch numbers in which the keys are created.
- Metal hardware (keys, keys, hardware buckles, and stud studs) is coated with gold or palladium. Detailing with diamonds is another custom option.
- HermÃÆ'¨s offers "spa treatments" - reconditioned for widely used bags.
- A "Shooting Star" Birkin has a metallic image that resembles a shooting star, stamped adjacent to the "HermÃÆ'¨s, Paris Made in France" stamp, which uses gold or silver to be matched with hardware and emboss. Rarely, the stamp is either blind or colorless, if the bag is made of one or two leather where no metal stamping is used. Sometimes, Birkins or other HermÃÆ'¨s bags can be made by independent craftsmen for "personal use", but only once a year. Each bag carries a handyman's handbag. This identification varies greatly, but is no different for every bag made. Finding stamps more than one craftsman in a bag occurs because the stamp is not a serial reference. Fonts and stamping sequences may vary depending on the craftsman.
- Birkin bags can be distinguished from HermÃÆ'¨s Kelly handbags similar to the number of handles. The single-handle handbag is Kelly, but Birkin has two handles.
Expertise
Handmade handbags in France use typical company saddle sutures, developed in the 1800s. Each bag is hand-stitched, polished, painted, and polished, takes several days to complete. Leather is obtained from different tanners in France, resulting in various odors and textures. The company justifies the cost of Birkin bags, compared to other bags, claiming the level of expertise involved.
Request
According to estimates of 2014, HermÃÆ'¨s produced 70,000 Birkin bags that year. This bag is highly coveted and, for several years, is considered to have a waiting list of up to six years. The scarcity of these bags is supposedly designed to increase demand by collectors.
As a result of strong demand, Birkin bags have high resale value in many countries, especially in Asia, and in such a way that handbags are considered by some as an investment instrument. One study in 2016 found that Birkin bags had an average annual return of 14.2% between 1980 and 2015, significantly outperforming the S & amp; P 500. In April 2010, HermÃÆ'¨s announced that the waiting list no longer exists, implying that it is potentially available to all.
The Philippine Star reported in March 2013 that Shiny Rouge H Porosus Crocodile Birkin is 30-cm in size with 18K gold fittings and studded with diamonds taken US $ 203,150 at an auction in Dallas, Texas. White 30-inch white crocodile Himalaya nyloticus 30-inch Birkin with 18-carat white gold and 245 diamond bearing hardware sold at Christie's Hong Kong auction for HK $ 2.94 million (US $ 377,261), set a new record for the world's most expensive handbags. The similar has been sold by Christie's in spring 2016 with a world record price of HK $ 2.33 million (US $ 300,000).
In popular culture
In his memoir of The Primates of Park Avenue, author Martin Martin tells how Birkin's bag marks the social class status on the Upper East Side.
Birkin Bag is the main plot of Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda "(Season 4) episode of Coulda, Woulda, Sex" (Season 4), where Samantha is placed on a 5-year waiting list for bags. She was so desperate to get the one she said wrong, the bag was for her cell client, Lucy Liu. When Liu found out he fired Samantha and kept the bag for herself.
In Will & amp; Grace season 6 episode "Last Ex to Brooklyn", Grace is blessed with Birkin by her ex-husband Diane (Mira Sorvino), who works at Vogue. Will angrily says that he's been on the waiting list for two years for the bag.
In the episode of Gilmore Girls season 6 "Welcome to the Dollhouse", Rory was rewarded with Birkin by her boyfriend Logan. Emily says that around her birthday she motioned to Richard about wanting her.
Kim Kardashian made the news in 2013 for the $ 40,000 Birkin sport given to her by her husband Kanye West, where artist George Condo painted a group of nudes.
See also
- Significant consumption
- Economic materialism
References
External links
- HermÃÆ'¨s
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments