Another original Hermes Birkin bag sells for $2.86 million

An Hermes purse that after belonged to Jane Birkin was bought for $2.86 million (2.45 million euros) at public sale in Abu Dhabi on Friday, simply months after the record-breaking sale of her first bag from the French model, Sotheby’s stated.

Hermes first created the design for the British singer and actress in 1984 and it has gone on to grow to be a contemporary and extremely prized traditional, sought by fashionistas the world over. The first prototype was bought for 8.58 million euros ($10 million) at a Sotheby’s public sale in Paris in July, smashing earlier value information for a purse.

The one bought on Friday was a ‘Birkin Voyageur,’ which was gifted to the previous spouse of French singing legend Serge Gainsbourg in 2003. The closing sale value was round six occasions occasions greater than the estimated value vary of $230,000-$430,000 given earlier than the sale.

“Jane Birkin’s handbag legacy continues to captivate collectors,” Sotheby’s stated in a press release despatched to AFP, including that bidding came about over 11 minutes between six collectors. The new proprietor was a cellphone purchaser and has not been recognized.

The purse was certainly one of 4 owned by the late celeb, who used to promote them to boost cash for charitable causes. It has a handwritten inscription in French inside from Birkin that reads: “My Birkin bag, my globetrotting companion.”

A 3rd Hermes bag owned by Birkin is ready to go below the hammer on December 15 on the Hotel Drouot public sale home in Paris. It was entrusted by the late star to her pal and biographer Gabrielle Crawford, who’s promoting it to assist fund the long run Jane Birkin Foundation, Drouot stated in a press release.

Produced in very restricted numbers, the fashionable Birkin bag manufactured by Hermes has maintained an aura of exclusivity and is beloved by celebrities such because the Kardashians, Jennifer Lopez, and Victoria Beckham. The most costly style merchandise ever bought at public sale was a pair of ruby crimson slippers worn by actor Judy Garland from The Wizard of Oz in 1939, which bought for $32.5 million in 2024 in Dallas, Texas, in line with Sotheby’s.