Birkin Blog Poll Results | 09.02.17-09.02.24

What makes you purchase Birkin bags?

We have received 12 votes (Multiple Answers). The Results were:

Birkin bags are hard to get: 3 votes

Many celebrities own them: 2 votes

The design is elegant and permanent: 7 votes

There are many sizes, leathers, colors available: 1 vote

By carrying Birkin bags, I feel good: 3 votes

Birkin bags represent who I am: 3 votes

Others: 0 votes

Celebrity | Pamela Anderson

Celebrity | Paris Hilton

Birkin Blog Says | Happy Valentine's Day

Article | My hols: Jane Birkin | www.timesonline.co.uk

When I travel, I lug everything with me in a big bulky case that’s covered with stickers of all the causes I believe in, and I also take my Birkin bag everywhere. I actually designed the bag on an aeroplane, sitting next to Mr Dumas-Hermès. He made it for me and asked if he could commercialise it, given that it was such a beautiful bag, and I felt proud. Afterwards, it became an enormous success, and people started to say things to me like, “Oh, you’re Birkin, like the bag?” which was annoying.

Now, I auction off my Birkin every year and give the proceeds to charity. I’m glad Hermès lets me donate my bags to a worthy cause. The last one went for £40,000.’

Celebrity | Victoria Beckham, Dita Von Teese

Photo | New York Fashion Week

Article | Style Guy: Accessories | men.style.com

Q: I recently got a Hermès Birkin bag from my mother, and I carry it to class and when I go shopping. I know it is a purse, but give me a break: It’s a Birkin. Is that okay? I have never been one to follow traditional style, and hey, I love bags!

A: Is it okay? It’s okay with me if you wear the whole Hermès spring line for women, and apparently it’d be cool with your mother, too. But there’s no way a Birkin is going to pass as a men’s accessory, even if you stick trout flies on it. Best-case scenario: You’re the best-dressed drag queen in your class. My advice is this: You can probably get a few grand for Mom’s Birkin on eBay. Convert it to a nice Hermès briefcase and you’ll have enough money left over to get your legs waxed.

Birkin Blog Says | Tri-Color Birkin

Even though I am a Birkin addict, I can not convince myself to love the Tri-Color Birkins (shown above). The colors might be brilliant. The bag might look better in real. I just can't fall in love with this one. 

What do you think?

Celebrity | Jane Birkin

Article | It’s in the bag, the Birkin one that is | weblogs.sun-sentinel.com

My name is Oline, and I am a bag lady.
I admit to an addiction I cannot seem to break.
OK, two additions. Oh, all right...more than that.
But let’s just mention two addictions for now.
One is dark chocolate, the higher the percentage the better. (You fellow addicts know what I’m talking about.) You won’t find candy bars that come from a vending machine in my desk. You will find luscious dark chocolate bars and bits, some as high as 85%.
The other addition is purses. Handbags. Pocketbooks. Whatever you want to call them.
I love them.
Big ones, small ones; frames, clutches, shoulder, satchel, shoppers. Whatever. I am so there with them.
For me, a new month requires a new bag. For that matter, so does a new week and, if I am in the mood, a new day.
I have been known to change purses three times in a day if the occasion calls for it. (And yes, the occasions have called for it!)
So how does all this relate to books?
Michael Tonello’s book Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World’s Most Coveted Handbag recently crossed my desk. (That's him up on the right)
Actually, it crossed my desk via my colleague Gail Gedan Spencer, she of The Skinny and an admitted bag lady herself.
“You should blog about this,” she said gleefully. “It has two things you – books and purses.”
The book looks like a lot of fun. It’s described as how the author unlocked the “fabled waiting list of more than two years to buy one from Hermès” and became one of eBay’s most successful entrepreneurs.
Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review stating it was "Funny, whip-smart. . . . Both a hilarious raid on fashion’s strongholds and a memoir that satisfies like a novel. Fashion die-hards, and many others, will be delighted from beginning to end."
The book does sounds delightful, but it still won’t make me change my mind about the Birkin, which I consider to be a piece of fraud perpetuated on purse fanatics and more famous for who carries it and the controversy surrounding it than being a cool bag.
(It was introduced in 1984 and named after the British film actress/activist Jane Birkin, (right) either for whom it was designed or who designed it, depending on the different sources, web sites and madeup online encyclopedias.)
The Birkin is one expensive bag. Most start at around $6,000. According to lore, the most expensive version is $85,000 and is made of crocodile and has solid gold closures that are adorned with diamonds.
Yes.
That’s right.
That’s one purse.
And it’s not even pretty. Look for yourself!
Martha Stewart (top) caused a bit of a stir when she carried two to her trial.
The Birkin starred in an episode of Sex and the City when Kim Cattrall’s character, desperate after waiting years for one, lied that she needed one for her client, actress Lucy Liu.
Alexis Bledel’s character Rory received one from her too wealthy boyfriend on The Gilmore Girls.
As for me, I think that any purse that costs more than a car is a ridiculous price. Especially since it pales when compared to really pretty purses.

The Birkin or the book...The book is a better value.

Celebrity | Olivia Palermo | MTV

Birkin Blog Says | Marc Jacobs' Birkin Bag

Last month I wrote an article about why I have stopped buying Louis Vuitton bags. People who love Louis Vuitton bags do not seem to be convinced. After seeing this photo, you should be all convinced. Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton's head designer, who also designs his own lines of handbags carries a Birkin bag himself. What does that tell us about LOUIS VUITTON bags?

Should we say more?

Celebrity | Star Jones

Birkin Dos and Don'ts | No Smoking!

There are some websites allowing you to post photos about your handbags and the contents inside them. This picture caught my attention. A pack of red Marlboro? This goes way up to our Birkin Don'ts list.

Celebrity | Debra Messing

Video | Rachel Zoe Project | Bravo

One of Rachel's really bad habits is shopping but in a store like this, can you blame her?
In the latest installment of The Rachel Zoe Project, she visits the fabulous mecca of vintage in L.A., Decades, and engages in mindbogglingly fabulous shopping: a gorgeous vintage Balmain red carpet dress, a Chanel necklace, and a chocolate brown Birkin...and provides possibly the best argument ever, should you find yourself trying to justify a splurge, or perhaps, your third Birkin:

Rachel's assistant (and voice of reason) Taylor: Roger (Zoe's husband/business manager) is going say you don't need a third Birkin bag.
Rachel Zoe: But I collect them!
Taylor: You collect art...you don't collect Birkins.
Rachel: But to me, they're art!

Click Here to view the video. The clip is 2'49". Sorry I was not able to link the original video to this blog.