PARIS: The original bag custom-made for actress Jane Birkin, which became one of the era-defining designs of the 20th century ...

The modern design classic, owned by a Paris-based handbag collector, sparked a telephone bidding war up to seven million ...

While Sotheby’s didn’t identify the buyer of the original Birkin bag, it did say that the Hermes bag went to an unidentified ...

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Jane Birkin’s personal Hermès prototype sold for $10 million at Sotheby’s Paris, with a Japanese buyer securing the iconic piece after a fierce bidding war.

In an “electrifying” 10-minute bidding war between nine obsessed collectors, the original Birkin bag, which set the template ...