The post An Origin Story For The World’s Most Exclusive Bag appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Jane’s Birkin bag by Hermes which belonged to British-French actress and singer Jane Birkin at the Sotheby’s auction house in Paris on July 2, 2025. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images For more than a decade, singer and actress Jane Birkin carried a wicker Portuguese basket as a handbag, one she’d found at a market in London. The basket went everywhere Jane did; from the grocery store to the red carpet at Cannes, Birkin’s basket was a whole thing. Though she lived most of her adult life in Paris, Birkin was British by birth. She began her career as an actress and model during the height of the Swinging Sixties, starring in movies like Blow-Up (1966, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni) and Wonderwall (1968, directed by Joe Massot), and it was while filming Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, (1969), that Birkin met and fell in love with Serge Gainsbourg. She moved to Paris to be with him, and this is where and when launched her musical career. Singing would be part of the rest of Birkin’s life. Gainsbourg would not. British actress and singer Jane Birkin with her wicker basket in London, England, 13th April 1973. (Photo by David Thorpe/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Serge was, by all accounts, impossible to live with and violent at times, and Jane took their daughter (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and left him in 1980, the same year she met Jacques Doillon, who Birkin stayed with until about 1996. According to fashion history lore, by 1983 Doillon was sick of seeing the basket, decided it was a gimmick Jane did not need, and ran the purse over with his car. The timing could not have been worse for his tantrum, Birkin was to fly from Paris to London…

---

Filed under: News - @ July 14, 2025 9:29 pm