Thursday, December 9, 2010

Article

What kind of woman spends £49,000 on a used handbag?

Fashion fanatics battle over Birkins at a Christie's auction

Daily Mail

9th December 2010


An elderly but extremely handsome woman in pink, trailing a fur coat and a very young husband behind her, wafts in to Christie’s grand hall and tries to find a seat in the auction room.


There, the crowd - mostly men in suits and women wearing silk scarves and expensive blow-dries - sit in reverential silence, their faces hardened in focus.


All of them are here to buy one thing. No, not a classical painting or an antique vase - they’re here for a handbag.

So, what’s so special about this bag?


Victoria Beckham is rumoured to own 100 of them worth £1.5 million, Lady Gaga enraged fashion lovers across the world by defacing one, there’s a six-year waiting list to have one made, but now you can own your very own (albeit second-hand) version... if you’ve got a spare £49,000, that is.


Yes, you read that right. Yesterday, at Christie’s, an anonymous bidder paid £49,000 for a second-hand bag.


But this was no ordinary bag: this was a limited-edition Hermes Birkin bag and, it appears, women will do (or pay) whatever it takes to get one over their arm - even in the middle of a recession.


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