Original Birkin bag sells for record €8.6m in Paris auction – video | Fashion

The primary Birkin purse has offered for a file €8.6m (£7.4m) at a Paris public sale on Thursday, making it the costliest style accent ever offered at public sale in Europe. The Birkin bag is an emblem of luxurious that was born from an opportunity encounter between the singer and actor Jane Birkin and the previous Hermès boss Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight within the Nineteen Eighties. They obtained speaking after she spilled a few of her issues on the cabin flooring and Birkin sketched her very best purse on a vomit bag