# @hermes on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B-6d7Fhgvsy
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34197080-hermes-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/32c3381f61.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-04-13T08:00:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hermès (@hermes) — https://gondola.cc/hermes

## Caption

The Birkin Bag, an open secret.

It’s 1984. On a Paris-London flight, a woman is seated beside a man. Perfect strangers. Once in the air, she searches through a shopping bag in the locker above her. Disaster! The contents fall out all around. The man helps her pick everything up. Speaking French with a strong English accent, she complains that she can’t find a bag to hold all her stuff. The man is Jean-Louis Dumas, the artistic director of Hermès. Pure chance put them together. They chat, he sketches. Listening to her wish list he designs a bag, before they land, that will take Paris by storm. Named for that same young woman, a certain Jane… Birkin.

#Iconicbyaccident
#Innovationinthemaking
#Timelessstar

#BirkinBag
#Hermes

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timelessstar, innovationinthemaking, birkinbag, hermes, iconicbyaccident

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