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{ FIRST-EVER BIRKIN BAG } DESIGNED FOR CELEBRITY JANE BIRKIN The $10mn bag: Original Birkin smashes records at Paris auction
Hindustan Times Amritsar
|July 11, 2025
The first-ever Birkin bag designed by French luxury brand Hermes for celebrity Jane Birkin sold for €8.58 million ($10 million) at a Sotheby's auction in Paris on Thursday, smashing previous price records for a handbag.
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The modern design classic, owned by a well-known Paris-based handbag collector, sparked a telephone bidding war up to €7 million, with the final sale price set at €8.58 million with commission and fees, the Sotheby's website showed.
The previous record sale price for a handbag at auction was set by a diamondand white gold-encrusted crocodile skin Hermes Kelly 28 which fetched nearly $513,000 in 2021 at Christie's in Hong Kong.
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