Going, going… gone! Jane Birkin’s original Hermès tote is now the most valuable handbag ever sold at auction!

I'm sure I remember she wanted to disassociate herself from the bag because she disagreed with Hermes practice of skinning reptiles?

more money than sense springs to mind
Obscenity springs to mind 😡

So sad 😞. Is that really all they can do with their money?

Was with a friend at Heathrow airport. She pointed out a lady with a particular handbag, and said ‘That bag costs £16000.!’

The ‘more money than sense’ was my answer, or in the words of Lady Bracknell - ‘A Handbag!!!’

Absolutely shocking waste of money that could do so much to help others. As for applauding this colossal flaunting of more money than sense well...!!

Maybe the woman at the airport had bought it from the ‘looky looky’ men on the Costa paseos Calendargirl.

Faux ‘MK’ handbags. .. only €25!

The Spanish call them ‘blanket men’ as all their goods are displayed on a huge sheet. If the police are doing their rounds they contact one another using their mobiles and pick up the sheets corner to corner and run off!

Designer handbags have been an excellent investment over recent years.

Hopefully it will go on display and not be kept in a climate controlled wardrobe.

Apparently Victoria Beckham is reputed to have 100 of these bags.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Apparently Victoria Beckham is reputed to have 100 of these bags.

I haven’t got one, but I wouldn’t say no if the opportunity arose.

You have to but your name on a list for the Birkin, and you can only go on the list if you are already a Hermes customer (not sure a scarf would count 😹)

Oh my goodness.

^Why Can't You Just Walk Into Hermès and Buy a Birkin?
Most Hermès quota bags (Birkin & Kelly) are reserved for repeat, high-spending clients. Simply walking into an Hermès store and asking for a Birkin is not^

enough -you need to be invited to purchase one.

How ridiculous.

Emperor’s new clothes? 🤔

I’d have paid €8,600,000 for it …if it had a cheque for €8,599,975 made out to me inside!

As FGT says, stunning handbags in the Spanish markets - no need to spend silly money, unless you just want to tell everyone how much you paid.

Je t'aime* Hermes bag mais pas assez to pay eight point six million euros for you. (not that I have that kind of money)

*I am sure quite a few GNs remember Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's sexy song that was banned by the BBC in 1969.

I suppose it’s the difference between having an original Picasso or Gainsborough on your wall or a fake.

I know which I would opt for (bank balance permitting) the one that will increase in value not the one used to light the BBQ.

I also have a problem with the looky looky/blanket men their fakes help to fuel all sorts of illegal activities, drugs, human trafficking, fake cigarettes etc.

True GG13 and the local shopkeepers paying their rents and taxes are not impressed. Every now and again the Police swoop in. But they regroup.

I was talking to one young Somalian one holiday. (No thank you I don’t want a football shirt or a pair of dayglo trainers) and he was telling me he goes over to Spain every April till November then goes home with “much money”.
Back again the following year. They bunk up, several in a couple of rooms, split the rent to keep costs down. As I say, local shops are NOT happy.

FGT2 I first went to that part 50 years ago, the looky looky men were there back then.

Same modus operandi, look outs along the paseo, no mobile phones.

😮

Looky looky men in Venice in June. People were buying the bags, although I believe if you are caught buying one you will be fined.

Kate1949

Looky looky men in Venice in June. People were buying the bags, although I believe if you are caught buying one you will be fined.

You definitely will be in Rome, if a designer shop thinks your bag is a fake they can confiscate the bag, tip your contents into a carrier bag and off you go…

(At least you get a designer carrier bag 😹)

It’s akin to putting the Rolls Royce lady on an old banger…

Magenta8

Je t'aime* Hermes bag mais pas assez to pay eight point six million euros for you. (not that I have that kind of money)

*I am sure quite a few GNs remember Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's sexy song that was banned by the BBC in 1969.

The only thing that springs to mind when that song is mentioned is: they both looked as if they could both do with a good scrub.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Apparently Victoria Beckham is reputed to have 100 of these bags.

Well why aren’t I surprised? She would.
What I don’t get is, unless you have one of these bags yourself how would you recognise that someone had one? It seems pointless to me, unless you stick it under people’s noses saying, ‘Look! I have a Birkin bag’! Such pretentious snobbery!