The hottest accessory of the holiday season is elusive yet attainable, affordable yet hard to find, and has a name that demonstrates its dichotomous nature. It’s the Walmart “Birkin” bag.
Not only do they cost anywhere from the low five figures to up to a million at auction, you can’t just walk into a Hermes ... for model Jane Birkin, who wanted a utilitarian bag that she could ...
These bags have become so expensive—not to mention hard to acquire—that their value has grown faster than both the S&P 500 and the price of gold, with a return on investment of 500% over 35 years.
I spent two years working in retail marketing and visual merchandising at Hermés. The French fashion house has been around for nearly two centuries and specializes in leather goods, though it ...