Category: Hermes
Not many people are willing to drop $5,000 on a Hermes Birkin handbag. It shouldn’t surprise us at this point that Lady Gaga was willing to “personalize” or graffiti her Birkin bag in order to get a message out to her fans as she made her way through Japan’s Narita airport. “I love little monster, Tokyo love” was written in Japanese Katakana script on both her handbag and forearm. The artist is finishing up the Far East leg of her world tour, but we still can’t blame the insanity on exhaustion, as we know, that’s Lady Gaga in a nutshell.
Eva Longoria has joined her celeb friends in the Hermes Birkin club with this blue bombshell of a bag. The blue in her handbag makes her pink tee pop perfectly.
Mrs. Beckham can’t go wrong in my book. Showing just enough skin and all the right Birkin, Victoria was looking perfectly posh with Hermes in burgundy crocodile.
French luxury brand Hermes has announced or admitted to the breeding of its own crocodiles on farms in Australia. Hermes already has a difficult time keeping up with the high demand of the exotic-skin bags as customers wait years to carry what the celebrities are sporting. Costs of the bag can reach nearly $50,000 and many argue that the price point in itself is sinful enough. What strikes most readers is the fact that it takes so many animals to make a single accessory. Hermes CEO Patrick Thomas states, “It can take three to four crocodiles to make one of our bags so we are now breeding our own crocodiles.” High expenses are due to the reptiles being kept apart in separate rooms to keep their skins bite free. I’m not sure which I fear more, the crocodile farms in Australia or the people at Hermes.
Picture of CEO Hermes International, Patrick Thomas and Rachel
Weisz at the opening on Wall Street in New York City in 2007.