“WHe said: “You start to realize that you enjoy, life can be cheerful.” Jin Birkin. She was talking about champagne – but she was just talking about her popular basket, which can now be said the summer supplement.
“It is a strange story, because as a useful bag that does not really work,” says fashion historian Tony Glennville. It seems that the CEO of Hermes at the time, Jean -Louis Dumas, seemed to see the contents of a Birkin baskets on France’s flight to London in 1984. Berkeen leather handbag.
Regardless of the design defects, the High Street is mired in the baskets: next, a new look, Mango and M&S all offered cutting price versions. Luxury costumes jumped on the wicker cart, too, the most popular version that is said by the Spanish luxury brand Lowe. In the past three months alone, searches for LOEWE’s RAFAFIA bags have increased by 1600 % on Net-A-Porter.
“It looks like the trend that has not been out of fashion,” says Sarah Corbit Winardi, a fashion designer who has “embarrassment, at least 40” at least. “I got the way to Jin Birkin, and I think this makes it just” forever “… it’s just a very distinctive.”
For Glenville, it comes to what these bags indicate. They say: “I am a little creative, I love the picnic as well, and I have just grabbed the delicious straw bag from the hall table in my home house, or Shato.” As such, he says: “They must carry a set of drawing, some biscuits for dogs and a jar of homemade province.”
Corbett-Winder also believes that “it may be related to this type of age and at that time; it was just a great interest,” as well as “that French girl that we all love greatly.”
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While the leather Birkin is one of the most expensive world bags, the basket can be one of the most bags in the world.
It also helps to have many different patterns. Shopping on the market – spacious, usually with leather tapes – is the most common, and perhaps the most practical. Birkin herself has greatly gone to the solid wicker basket in the form of an egg.
Although the bags are linked to the south FranceThere are very few basketball makers there nowadays. “It is not a very profitable task.”. In the Vallabrègues municipality, where there is a museum of baskets, “At the beginning of the twentieth century, one can consider up to 400 basket makers in the village. For the present time, there is only one,” they said.
We can expect to see the baskets continue to prosper, because it is the example of summer. But will we see them outside the home in the cold months? Gainfille does not think. “One will never use them after September or before Easter,” he says.
But Corbet Winter has tried. “They are still working, but not,” she says.
