Birkin: The Bag, the Woman, the Myth
This month the original Birkin bag, made by Hermès for the British actress Jane Birkin in 1984, sold for $10.1 million at Sotheby’s in Paris.
All of this is happening two years after her death on July 16, 2023, following a cancer diagnosis and more than a decade of treatment.
Ms. Birkin, who was born in London, became a revered actress who appeared in more than 70 films and a musician whose most famous song, “Je t’aime … moi non plus,”
In “Jane B. by Agnès V.,” a 1988 documentary directed by Agnès Varda that was made as Ms. Birkin was turning 40, she dumps out the content of her original black Birkin — the first “What’s in My Bag?” video, perhaps?
Out of the beaten-up black vessel tumbled multiple notebooks, a Swiss Army knife, newspaper clippings, Maybelline Great Lash mascara, pencils, cash, cigarettes, a Dostoyevsky novel and Scotch tape
Jane Birkin knew the bag had more name recognition than she did. During her life, people would ask if she was the same Birkin as the bag.
She’d say, “Yes, and the bag is going to sing now!”
New York Times 20 July 2025
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