Original Birkin bag sells for record 8.6M euros in Paris auction

The Manila Times

Original Birkin bag sells for record 8.6M euros in Paris auction  The original Birkin bag is sold at auction for 8.6 million euros ($10.04 million) on July 10, 2025 at Sotheby’s Paris, which the auction-house said was a record for a fashion item in Europe. The starting price was at 1 million euros ($1.17 million), and bids from the floor, from the phone and on the internet quickly went higher and higher. The buyer, who made the winning bid via telephone through a representative in the room, was a Japanese collector, Sotheby’s said. The coveted designer bag was created after Franco-British actress Jane Birkin met Hermes CEO Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight in 1984 and told him she needed a bigger, functional bag, while travelling with her young daughter Charlotte.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews #Birkin

Transcript

00:00We're here to bid on it today and hopefully take it home.

00:20Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

00:24We came with a budget of around 2.2 million dollars.

00:27We were hoping to take it home.

00:30It sold for four times that, which was surprising and crazy and set records.

00:36It's historic, absolutely historic.

00:39I'm very disappointed, extremely disappointed.

00:43You know, you feel it's a moment in time.

00:46You feel like it slips through your fingers and maybe next time.

00:51Maybe in the next 20 years if it goes to auction or if that ever happens.

01:07Thank you so much.

01:09Thank you so much for...

01:10Are you already there?

01:11Oh, please.

01:130.097 million dollars.

01:14This product is Saint Birkin.

01:15Thank you very much for your engagement.

01:16It's all for your email.

01:17Thank you all for your lunch.

01:18At seven million dollars.

01:190.097 million dollars.

01:20So this bag is like my son.

01:48So, you know, when your son goes to the university, you say,

01:54Congrats, you will be the best.

01:56So now I can tell you, you will be the best.

02:00It will be perfect for your second life.

02:02We do many things together, but now it's time to say goodbye.

02:07So, have a long life, my son.

02:11I don't know if it's so much money, you know, in the world.

02:14Too much thing, too much money.

02:16But for the Birkin bag, the price is the price of the Hermes story.

02:21The price is the price of the handmade, you know, for the bag.

02:27So I think it's a good price for a Birkin bag.

02:31The first one, the prototype one.

02:33Because I really think that the Birkins and the Kellys speak a different language than we even think they did before.

02:43Like, I think that it's always a milestone in a woman's life to get one of these bags.

02:48We all know exactly where we were when we bought our first or our third or our fifth or our seventh.

02:54And I think it's a real triumph for women, frankly.

02:57I really do.

02:57We didn't have any expectation.

03:01We are here to give the right price.

03:04And this is why auction is the best place for unique items like this.

03:07Because it's the only way to know what is the right price.

03:10Because it's the only way to know what is the right price.

03:40And this is why auction is the right price.

Category

Transcript

Recommended