A staffer holds the unique Birkin bag given to Jane Birkin by Hermes in 2003, throughout Sotheby’s Abu Dhabi Collector’s week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday. AP-Yonhap
PARIS — A Hermes purse that when belonged to Jane Birkin was bought for $2.86 million (2.45 million euros) at public sale in Abu Dhabi on Friday, simply months after the record-breaking sale of her first bag from the French model, Sotheby’s stated Tuesday.
Hermes first created the design for the British singer and actress in 1984 and it has gone on to grow to be a contemporary and extremely prized traditional, sought by fashionistas the world over.
The primary prototype was bought for 8.58 million euros ($10 million) at a Sotheby’s public sale in Paris in July, smashing earlier worth information for a purse.
The one bought on Friday was a “Birkin Voyageur”, which was gifted to the previous spouse of French singing legend Serge Gainsbourg in 2003.
The ultimate sale worth was round six instances instances greater than the estimated worth vary of $230,000-$430,000 given earlier than the sale.
“Jane Birkin’s purse legacy continues to captivate collectors,” Sotheby’s stated in an announcement despatched to AFP, including that bidding occurred over 11 minutes between six collectors.
The brand new proprietor was a cellphone purchaser and has not been recognized.
The purse was certainly one of 4 owned by the late superstar, who used to promote them to lift cash for charitable causes.
It has a handwritten inscription in French inside from Birkin that reads: “My Birkin bag, my globetrotting companion.”
A 3rd Hermes bag owned by Birkin is ready to go underneath the hammer on December 15 on the Lodge Drouot public sale home in Paris.
It was entrusted by the late star to her buddy and biographer Gabrielle Crawford, who’s promoting it to assist fund the longer term Jane Birkin Basis, Drouot stated in an announcement.
Produced in very restricted numbers, the trendy Birkin bag manufactured by Hermes has maintained an aura of exclusivity and is beloved by celebrities such because the Kardashians, Jennifer Lopez and Victoria Beckham.
The most costly style merchandise ever bought at public sale was a pair of ruby crimson slippers worn by actor Judy Garland from The Wizard of Oz in 1939, which bought for $32.5 million in 2024 in Dallas, Texas, in response to Sotheby’s.
