Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was First Sketched on a Sickbag

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Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag
Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

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Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was First Sketched on a Sickbag

Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

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Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was First Sketched on a Sickbag

Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

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Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

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Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

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Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was First Sketched on a Sickbag

Jane Birkin on the Hermès Birkin: How Fashion's Most Iconic Handbag Was  First Sketched on a Sickbag

Why the iconic Hermès Birkin was first designed on a sick bag: Jane Birkin met the luxury brand's chairman Jean-Louis Dumas on an Air France flight in the 1980s – and doodled