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Bringing home a birkin5/9/2023 ![]() He was up a particular creek “without a paleta,” he writes. A job magically materializes, then vanishes, and Tonello is stuck in Spain with a five-year lease, no work visa and expensive custom closets he had built to fit his designer clothes. Weary of traveling the world as a hair and makeup artist for commercials, he decides to move to Barcelona after working on an I.B.M. And for a woman of a certain class anywhere in the world, carrying one is the quickest way to telegraph to other women, “I win.” And so some of them will do or pay just about anything to get one.Īt the start of “Bringing Home the Birkin,” the author, Michael Tonello, is a party boy in Provincetown, Mass., who doesn’t know a Birkin from Burkina Faso. These days, Americans versed in pop culture “Sex and the City,” Oprah being turned away at the Paris Hermès store know about Birkins. Oh, and the entry-level leather model costs about $7,500, with a crocodile-and-diamond version topping out at $150,000. Any other Jane who walks in off the street and asks for a Birkin is politely told there is a two-to-three-year waiting list. ![]() ![]() ![]() For those not familiar with the Birkin bag made by Hermès, the French luxury leather goods company, for the singer Jane Birkin in the early ’80s, after its chief executive saw the chanteuse struggling with her vagabond-verging-on-cat-lady straw purse on a plane it doesn’t matter, because you can’t get one anyway. The end of the world just inched a little nearer: an eBay seller has written a memoir. ![]()
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