So you say you love your Birkin, but how much do you really know about it" The Hermès Birkin has legions of fans, but there?s still a lot to learn about the world?s best loved luxury handbag. Are they really as rare as Hermès wants us to believe" Where was this piece of fashion history born" Which colors are the most popular" Find out the answers as we take you on a journey of the little known facts about the world?s most famous handbag.
Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg (Husband)
10. The illustrious Birkin was born on an airplane barf bagJane herself told the Daily Telegraph, ?I remember it well. I?d been upgraded by Air France on a flight to London, and was sitting next to a man. I?m not quite sure what type of bag I had with me ? my husband, Jacques Doillon, had reversed his car over my basket, crushed it on purpose not two days before. Little did he know that on this airplane journey, when everything fell out of whatever bag I had, the man next to me said: ?You should have one with pockets?. I said: ?The day Hermès make one with pockets I will have that?, and he said: ?But I am Hermès and I will put pockets in for you?.?I said, ?Why don?t you make a handbag that is bigger than the Kelly but smaller than Serge?s suitcase"? And he said, ?Well, what would it be like"? And I think I drew it on the sickbag ? or the not-be-sick bag. And he said, ?I?ll make it for you?.? 9. A Birkin?s size, color and texture are described in its nameThe name Herm...