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Getty picturesThe original Birkin Bag, which appoints the template for the most coveted accessory in fashion history, was purchased for 8.6 million € (7.4m; $ 10.1m) to become the most valuable bag sold in the auction.
Black leather bag, for singer Jane Birkin in 1985, shed the items after shedding their belongings while sitting in a flight of Luxury Fashion Hermes.
Why did not create bigger pelvis, so he sketched the design for a new, more practical, but still very desirable product in the patient’s bag.
He sold a prototype to a private collector from Japan in Sotheby in Paris on Thursday, $ 513,000 (£ 378,000; € 439,000) Previous record sale.
Getty picturesThe auction house, “10 minutes offered” 10 minutes “between the nine-defined collectors, he said,” he said.
Morgane Halimi, Sotheby’s Global Bag and Fashion President, the price of the price “The power of the collectors looking for a unique proof to own the power of a legend is to own the power and desire.”
He added: “Birkin prototype, a modern icon, a story of Birkin, a story of a story, the Birkin bag, the world’s most coveted bag.”
Includes only 8,582,500 euros, commissions and payments. Sotheby’s did not broadcast an assessment before the auction.
After creating a bag for Anglo-French singer and actress, Hermes put the bag commercial and remains one of the most exclusive status characters in fashion.
Some styles cost a lot of tens of thousands of dollars and are celebrities like Kate Moss, Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lopez, including waiting for years of years.
Original, one’s front-flap capital letters, non-removed shoulder belts, nail reels, these are the places where the médecins put labels like Du Monde and UNICEF.
Birkin, who died at 2023, took the original bag, and presented the auction to the AIDS charity in 1994.
Then Catherine Benier was taken by Catherine Benier, which has a luxury boutique in Paris, which has 25 years without selling on Thursday.
Sotheby’s previous record price for a bag, in 2021 in the 28th White Himalo Nilota Crocodile Retourne Kelly, said.
