Jane’s original Birkin bag made history last week, selling for $10 million (€8.6 million) at Sotheby’s Paris—more than any handbag has ever sold at auction. This is the true story of how Jane’s bag ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The original Hermès Birkin was made for Jane Birkin in 1985 and is now owned by a private collector from Japan - Mike ...

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 ...

Fashion history was made this week when THE ORIGINAL Hermes Birkin handbag sold at auction for US$10.1 million, a record price twenty times greater than the previous record of $500,000 (a Hermes Kelly ...

If you had to keep just one object to tell the story of the last 40 years of fashion, it could fit in one hand -- or on one arm, worn nonchalantly like its original muse. It's not a bag, it's the bag.

Did you know the real story behind the legendary Hermes Birkin - and the woman who inspired this pristine symbol of luxury? Far from treating it as a status piece to be hoarded in a closet, Jane ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Marisa Meltzer says one of the challenges of writing It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin was making sure it wasn't ...

The Birkin Bag is the ultimate status symbol: wildly expensive, ridiculously hard to get and immediately identifiable. Real Housewives collect it, hip-hop artists rap about it and “Sex and the City” ...