Jane Birkin, the singer, and actor who inspired Hermés' signature bag, has died. She was 76. French media reported that Birkin was found dead inside her Parisian home on Sunday morning. The ...

Jane Birkin's original Hermès Birkin Bag sold for $10.1 million at auction through Sotheby's on July 10, making it the most expensive ever sold. Her original Birkin prototype has several unique ...

Jane’s original Birkin bag made history last week, selling for $10 million (€8.6 million) at Sotheby’s Paris—more than any handbag has ever sold at auction. This is the true story of how Jane’s bag ...

You know her as the inspiration for the iconic Hermès bag or as the slinky love interest of a brooding Serge Gainsbourg. But Jane Birkin—who died at 76 on July 16—was also a distinguished artist in ...

In a new biography, “It Girl,” the journalist Marisa Meltzer makes a case for the doe-eyed style icon as more than a muse. By Joumana Khatib Joumana Khatib is an editor at the Book Review. When you ...

The original Birkin bag made for Jane Birkin is set to be sold at auction house Sotheby's in Paris on July 10. ALAIN JOCARD,GILLES LEIMDORFER/AFP via Getty Images It cost a whole bag of money. The ...

Back in July, Jane Birkin’s original Birkin bag—the bag named after the actress by Hermès that has become synonymous with wealth, glamour and unattainability—sold at auction for $10.1 million, which ...

In Agnès Varda’s film “Jane B. par Agnès V.,” from 1988, a nearly forty-year-old Jane Birkin, dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt, and a tweed blazer, her messy brown hair pinned back, sits in front of ...