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    Now You Can Own the Original Birkin Bag

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    If you thought the Himalaya Birkin is the rarest bag on Earth, think again. The prototype of the now-iconic Hermès purse, custom-made for its namesake, Jane Birkin, is up for auction for the first time in 25 years, hitting the Sotheby’s block on July 10.

    The Birkin was created especially for the on-the-go actor and singer in 1984, after she told Jean-Louis Dumas that she needed a bag that accommodated her hectic everyday life. “I think I drew it on the sick bag—or the not-be-sick bag. And [Dumas] said ‘I’ll make it for you’,” Birkin told Vogue from the front row of Hermès’s fall 2012 show.

    Jane Birkin at Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring 2005 show.

    Michel Dufour

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    The original Birkin bag, which will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on July 10.

    Birkin, who died in 2023, donated the original purse in 1994 to benefit the French AIDS charity, Association Solidarité Sida. It was purchased again in 2000 by Catherine Benier, a Paris-based collector and vintage store owner.

    Sotheby’s sent the bag on a world tour ahead of its impending sale, displaying it in their Paris and Hong Kong maisons. Benier also previously lent it out for exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Now it has returned to New York, and will be viewable at the auction house’s galleries from today through June 12.

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