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Kim Kardashian Known for her extravagant taste – but even her close friends are wondering if she has just dropped some serious cash on an iconic bag.
On Saturday, July 11, Kardashian shared a video that included a model cutting a glass nasty containing the original birkin bag inspired by the late actress Jane BirkinWorld Health Organization died in July 2023. Kardashian followed the post with a series of texts from different people, all wondering if she had bought the bag, which sold for € 8.6 million ($ 10.1 million) at auction on Friday, July 10.
“Is u the winner of the first birkin bag?” One read text.
“Tell me that you bought that birkin,” texted another friend. “It would be a bad ass.”
“Kim for Real Did you buy the original Birkin ??? Should I stop blaming you every time I miss an auction?” another text read.
Turned out, and despite Kardashian’s suggestions and guessing his friends, the ultimate bag went to Valuence Japan, Inc., In Minato-Ku, Tokyo, who placed their application through Maiko ichikawaHead of Japan Sotheby.
The Associated Press reported that the auction started at $ 1 million and that the bag has placed offers in person and by phone. The last four tries were for € 6.2 million, $ 6.5 million and $ 6.8 million.
Back in 2012 Birkin – which is famous often carried wicker baskets Instead of handbag- have said Fashionable How the iconic bag came into effect. She was sitting beside Jean-Louis DumasChairman of the Hermès Group between 1978 and 2006, on flight when the pair began to discuss the bag she had brought on.
“I had been upgraded by Air France on flight to London, and I found myself sitting beside a man (the visionary Jean-Louis Dumas of Hermès),” he said to the author Luke leitch. “I’m not quite sure what kind of bag I had with me – my husband Jacques Dollon had reversed his car over my basket, crushing it on purpose not also days before. Dumas) thought I deserved more.”
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Kim kardashian igHe continued, “Little did he know, on this plane journey, when everything fell out of whatever bag I got, the next guy said to me, ‘You should have one with pockets.’ I said, ‘The day Hermès makes one with pockets I will have that.’ “
Birkin went on to add that the designer told her because “I’m Hermès, and I’ll put in pockets for you.” ‘
“I said ‘Why don’t you make a handbag larger than the Kelly but less than (former Longtime partner) Serge’s (Gainsbourg) suitcase? ‘And he said’ Well, what would that be? ‘ And I think I pulled it on the sick bag or the unpaid bag. And he said ‘I’ll make you,’ he added.
Birkin popped into Hermès to buy the designed bag, but instead Dumas offered to give her if she allowed him to name him for her. “I was very flat! They’ve turned it into a success we know today,” he said.