{"id":14259,"date":"2025-07-11T08:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:19:52","slug":"original-birkin-bag-sells-for-record-e8-6m-in-paris-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14259","title":{"rendered":"Original Birkin bag sells for record \u20ac8.6m in Paris auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first Birkin handbag has sold for a record \u20ac8.6m (\u00a37.4m) at a Paris auction on Thursday, making it the most expensive fashion accessory ever sold at auction in Europe. The Birkin bag is a symbol of luxury that was born from a chance encounter between the singer and actor Jane Birkin and the former Herm\u00e8s boss Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight in the 1980s. They got talking after she spilled some of her things on the cabin floor and Birkin sketched her ideal handbag on a vomit bag.<\/p>\n

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The first-ever Birkin bag designed by French luxury brand Hermes for celebrity Jane Birkin sold for 8.58 million euros (NZ$16.6 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in Paris on Thursday (French time), smashing previous price records for a handbag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The modern design classic, owned by a Paris-based handbag collector, sparked a telephone bidding war up to \u20ac7m, with the final sale price set at \u20ac8.58m with commission and fees, the Sotheby’s website showed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“After weeks of anticipation, the bidding opened at 1 million euros – prompting a gasp from the room,” Sotheby’s said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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