Comments on: The Birkin Delusion

By: IH82Cook

IH82Cook — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:06:34 +0000

Well, here it is 2015 and it’s the Birkin Bag in the news again. The book “Primates of Park Avenue” is out and glamorizing the life and styles of filthy rich woman in New York city. Nauseating.

By: Nybluedog

Nybluedog — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:10:40 +0000

I came from a poor background and was absolutely hardworking at my job and extremely frugal. I saved 70 percent of my 24k a year income in my early twenties to be able to afford my own home by age 23. It’s only after I bought my own home and getting better at my career that I even looked at luxury goods. Then I could only afford a LV bag that cost a few hundred dollars. I liked the service at the LV store. Then I liked logo bags because it shows everyone that I can own LV. Ten years later, when I have arrived at the pinnacle of my career and now have multi million dollar assets and where I donate generously to charities every year and can appreciate finer things in life, I did away with all the logo bags and settled for hermes and their understated opulence. It’s just too bad the Birkin is so recognized. I think it’s absolutely fine to pay so much for a bag that appreciates in value over time (investment piece) and that hermes pays it’s craftsmen in France good wages and these craftsmen actually get to own their own birkins (shooting star birkins) too. If you own a brikin you will know what I mean. I came from your type of background so I can understand where you are coming from but can you try to understand where I am coming from?

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:17:52 +0000

Everyone has the right to spend his or her money on whatever they want or need. I know that if I were fabulously wealthy I would never be into the status symbols. Never have (except for Calvin Klein jeans). I would always think how many hungry people could be fed with one purse.

By: mlk

mlk — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:09:15 +0000

I HAVE 6 BIRKINS AND HAVE A SEVENTH COMING! I GIVE 40% OF MY INCOME TO CHARTIES. I WILL HAPPILY FORK OVER THE MONEY THAT I WORK HARD FOR TO BUY A BIRKIN BECUASE I LOVE THE BAG. MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT A BIRKIN IS AND HOW MUCH IT COSTS. AFTER READING THIS BLOG I WILL NOW CARRY MY BIRKIN WITH EVEN MORE PRIDE KNOWING THAT I AM PISSING OF SOME LIBERALS WHO ARE CLUELESS ABOUT OTHERS!!! YOU ALL HAVE NO RIGHT TO DETERMINE/JUDGE HOW OTHERS SHOULD SPEND THIER MONEY! HERE’S A TIP– GET YOUR BIRKIN PRICES FROM HERMES NOT EBAY!! YOU ARE GROSSLY OVER ESTIMATING THE COST OF A BIRKIN!!!

By: ntokyot

ntokyot — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:35:11 +0000

seriously i really fell in love with your blog, love it!

By: Aja

Aja — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:14:40 +0000

WCGB book jinx!! I am totally reading Cause Celeb right now too, I kid you not. A friend who once worked for various NGOs in the eastern regions of Africa suggested it.

By: myra

myra — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:14:36 +0000

@dust A bit of older news: Hermes has a monopoly on many tanneries so they set the prices for other fashion houses getting tanned hides (which drives up the price of exotic leather goods for the consumer). At the same time, there is a disconnect when it comes to paying the farmers as they aren’t adequately compensated for the hides they produce: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/us/30gator.html

Perhaps it’s because I’m younger (23) that I can say this, but I’ve always admired Birkins… for the status more than anything and for the significance of what it would mean to my life if I ever actually owned one (i.e. a comfortable life, income disposable enough to blow 12k+ on a single bag, etc). I have a sneaking suspicion that if it ever came down to dropping the cash for one, my priorities would be different and I wouldn’t be able to let myself do it.

By: WCGB

WCGB — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:41:45 +0000

I’m in Vancouver, B.C. at the moment. Today I saw a woman with a Louis Vuitton bag in the shape of an attache case. She stood on the street, chatting with a man, smoking a cigarette. I took photo, a close-up of her feet. Her platform sandals achieved instant tragedy due to the escaping baby toe on her right foot.

Re: Keeping the mind out of despair – I recommend Helen Fielding’s Cause Celeb. I found it at a thrift store and I’ve been laughing ever since.

By: oops

oops — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:22:53 +0000

@Angie – Birkin no longer carries the Birkin because it is too big/heavy – http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/2006-09/060905-the-birkin-rules.aspx

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:23:31 +0000

Punctuation fail…pretend that last period is a question mark…please and thank you.