If you happen to thought the Himalaya Birkin is the rarest bag on Earth, suppose once more. The prototype of the now-iconic Hermès purse, custom-made for its namesake, Jane Birkin, is up for public sale for the primary time in 25 years, hitting the Sotheby’s block on July 10.
The Birkin was created particularly for the on-the-go actor and singer in 1984, after she informed Jean-Louis Dumas that she wanted a bag that accommodated her hectic on a regular basis life. “I feel I drew it on the sick bag—or the not-be-sick bag. And [Dumas] stated ‘I’ll make it for you’,” Birkin informed Vogue from the entrance row of Hermès’s fall 2012 present.
Birkin, who died in 2023, donated the unique purse in 1994 to profit the French AIDS charity, Affiliation Solidarité Sida. It was bought once more in 2000 by Catherine Benier, a Paris-based collector and classic retailer proprietor.
Sotheby’s despatched the bag on a world tour forward of its impending sale, displaying it of their Paris and Hong Kong maisons. Benier additionally beforehand lent it out for exhibitions on the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Now it has returned to New York, and might be viewable on the public sale home’s galleries from immediately via June 12.
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