"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fun fact: Jane Birkin only ever owned four Hermès Birkin bags (five, if you include the first prototype).

Jane Birkin was an actress and a singer who became the face of French girl beauty. In the early 1980s, she inspired the design of the iconic Hermès Birkin bag. The mother-of-three was born in 1946; ...

Jane’s original Birkin bag made history last week, selling for $10 million (€8.6 million) at Sotheby’s Paris—more than any handbag has ever sold at auction. This is the true story of how Jane’s bag ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An Hermès Birkin bag that once belonging to Jane Birkin will be sold by Sotheby’s on December 5 in Abu ...

Jane Birkin lounges on the stone steps in front of the Eiffel Tower as she unceremoniously dumps the contents of her beat-up black handbag onto the ground. An avalanche of personal items cascades out: ...

In Agnès Varda’s film “Jane B. par Agnès V.,” from 1988, a nearly forty-year-old Jane Birkin, dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt, and a tweed blazer, her messy brown hair pinned back, sits in front of ...

In the simplest terms, an It Girl is a young woman with good looks and beautiful clothes who becomes a fixture of the public sphere by virtue of being herself. It Girls are not socialites, who agitate ...

An Hermès Birkin bag that once belonging to Jane Birkin will be sold by Sotheby’s on December 5 in Abu Dhabi. ‘Le Birkin Voyageur’ as it’s known, was used by Birkin between 2003 and 2007 when it was ...