“Luxury collectibles have delivered for investors over the long term. If you had invested US$1 million in 2005 and tracked ...

Japanese resale mogul Shinsuke Sakimoto, that’s who. The now-revealed mystery buyer placed his winning bid from halfway ...

A massive price tag isn't unheard of in the world of Birkins, but this one is surely the most iconic.

In the grand tradition of Jane Birkin, Kate Moss is treating a five-figure Hermès bag like any ol’ thing.

The hammer fell at a winning bid of €7 million ($8.2 million). The first ever Birkin to have been created by Hermès, the bag was designed for the British actor and singer Jane Birkin. The Francophone ...

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Jane Birkin, the singer, and actor who inspired Hermés' signature bag, has died. She was 76. French media reported that Birkin was found dead inside her Parisian home on Sunday morning.

Jane Birkin, an English singer, actor, style icon and Francophile, has died at the age of 76, according to a report from Le Parisien. The outlet reports Birkin died Sunday at her home in Paris.

Jane Birkin's original Hermès bag—made by designer Jean-Louis Dumas after the actress couldn't find a purse large enough to fit of all her belongings—was sold for $10.1 million at an auction.

Birkin will forever be known for her devil-may-care style in the '60s and '70s, and with some exceptions, many French Jane Birkin movies aren't well-known to mainstream American audiences.

She’s wearing wire-rim oval eyeglasses, shoulder-length auburn hair and at 74 still conveys the indelible radiance you’d expect. At any age, Jane Birkin will always be Jane Birkin.

With Jane Birkin ’s passing, France loses both an icon and one of its greatest enigmas. To focus on France is not to diminish the fact that Birkin’s death will be mourned around the world.