Check out the price of this purse on eBay...and the reserve hasn't even been met yet!!
08-24-2001, 11:00 PM
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Check out the price of this purse on eBay...and the reserve hasn't even been met yet!!
<ul><li><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1629012974">Hmmm, the purse or the down payment on the TT?</a></li></ul>
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08-25-2001, 10:03 AM
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This is actually cheap for a Birkin bag.
My firm is outside counsel for Hermes and in June I was in Manhattan on trial for them against knockoff makers.
Birkins start at about $8000 new and the waiting list is -- no kidding -- five years and so long in fact that you can't even get put on the list. Crocodile versions of the Kelly or Birkin can go for $20K+.
Neat note: the Birkin was designed in 1984 by then-CEO Jean Louis Dumas. He was on an airplane with French actress Jane Birkin who had just had a child. She was having difficulty schlepping all her baby gear around in her bag. Jean-Louis and she figured out a new design, large and capacious but with a low center of gravity and convenient handles, together with the classic Hermes horizontal strap locking design, and voila -- a new bag obviously now named after Jane Birkin.
I know, a guy really shouldn't know this much about purses, but women dig talking about this stuff at bars.
Birkins start at about $8000 new and the waiting list is -- no kidding -- five years and so long in fact that you can't even get put on the list. Crocodile versions of the Kelly or Birkin can go for $20K+.
Neat note: the Birkin was designed in 1984 by then-CEO Jean Louis Dumas. He was on an airplane with French actress Jane Birkin who had just had a child. She was having difficulty schlepping all her baby gear around in her bag. Jean-Louis and she figured out a new design, large and capacious but with a low center of gravity and convenient handles, together with the classic Hermes horizontal strap locking design, and voila -- a new bag obviously now named after Jane Birkin.
I know, a guy really shouldn't know this much about purses, but women dig talking about this stuff at bars.