Design Classic – Birkin Bag (1984)
Student
Lecturer/s
Course topic/s
Course/s
BA Design Warm-Up – Foundation Course
Year
2021
semester
A plane incident where actress Jane Birkin spilled the contents of her straw tote in front of Jean-Louis Dumas (the chief executive of Hermès) inspired him to create, with the collaboration of Jane, a purposeful bag for modern women: the Birkin Bag.
