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Original Hermès bag made for Jane Birkin sells at auction for record $10 million
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE, JUL 10 – The one-of-a-kind Birkin bag sold for €8.6 million including fees, setting a new auction record and surpassing the previous $513,000 record, Sotheby's confirmed.
- Sotheby's sold Jane Birkin's original Hermes Birkin bag in Paris on Thursday, fetching $10.1 million from a private collector based in Japan.
- In 1984, Hermès chairman Jean-Louis Dumas created the bag after meeting Jane Birkin on a flight, and it has since become a highly influential and enduring symbol in the fashion world.
- The auction included nine collectors in a heated ten-minute bidding battle, with early bids passing 1 million euros, and drew attendees from 38 countries.
- Sotheby's global head of handbags Morgane Halimi called the sale an important milestone, praising the bag's legendary status and its power to ignite collector passion.
- The sale set new records for most valuable fashion and luxury items sold at Sotheby's Paris, reflecting rising investor interest in luxury collectibles as alternative assets.
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