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Fashion History Lesson: The Iconic Hermès Birkin - Fashionista
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Hermès History: The Brand Behind The Birkin
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Style Icon Jane Birkin's Looks Over the Decades - The New York Times
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An Ode To Style Icon Jane Birkin
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Fashion History Lesson - Fashionista
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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
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How Hermès became the ultimate status symbol in fashion – and made the Dumas family extremely wealthy
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Throwback-Thursday Outfit Idea: Jane Birkin Rocking Wide Suspenders