Chanel has taken a less effective approach to competing with the Hermès bag than American luxury brand The Row.

Consumers sue Hermès over barriers to buying Birkin bags 03:54. The original Hermès Birkin bag, once worn by the late actor and singer Jane Birkin, is heading to auction at Sotheby's this summer.

It's the Birkin bag to end all Birkin bags. This summer, Sotheby's auction house will solicit bidders for Jane Birkin's original Hermès bag, designed and named after the British actress and ...

The original Hermès Birkin bag, which acted as the blueprint for what would become one of the most desirable celebrity status symbols in the world, will go under the hammer in Paris next month.

The first-ever Hermès Birkin Bag was designed for the later icon Jane Birkin. The luxury brand has become a status symbol, with prices starting at around $10,000.

For years, from day to night, style icon Jane Birkin carried all of her belongings around in a wicker bag. Luxury brands now offer their own interpretations of the basket.

If you had to keep just one object to tell the story of the last 40 years of fashion, it could fit in one hand -- or on one arm, worn nonchalantly like its original muse. It's not a bag, it's the ...

The iconic accessory would become one of the most expensive handbags in fashion history. Now, the prototype is heading to the ...

The Boatkin, a new handbag, marries the design of the Hermès Birkin and the material of L.L. Bean’s Boat and Tote. By Allison Duncan Hop aboard a Hampton Jitney bus or a ferry to Nantucket this ...

The first Hermès Birkin bag, originally designed for Jane Birkin, is up for auction at Sotheby's Paris. This iconic black leather bag, born from a chance encounter in 1984, was previously sold by ...