Designed by breathy French singer Jane Birkin (shown here, with French singer/one-time husband Serge Gainsbourg in 1979) and Hermès president Jean-Louis Dumas-Hermès in the mid-1980s, the oversize purse has enjoyed a 20-plus-year run as an almost unobtainable cult fashion phenomenon.
(Claude Gassian)
From the Globe He knows how to get the Birkin