Jane Birkin was known for her style and being a symbol of the 1960s, but in 1981, she appeared in a movie that changed everything for her.

He eventually gifted the actress a black calfskin prototype of the Birkin, suggesting that the purse be named after her. "Tired of her baskets, Jane wanted a bag like [her partner] Serge ...

and singer Jane Birkin spoke to then-Hermès chairman Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight to London. When she suggested that Dumas make a Hermès bag that's "bigger than the Kelly but smaller than Serge ...

This article originally appeared in Uncut Take 287 (April 2021) “I think I called him Serge Bourguignon,” says Jane Birkin, recalling her first meeting with Gainsbourg on the set of the film ...

At 35cm wide, it was a more petite (yet adequately capacious) version of Hermès’ Haut à Courroies – the travel bag of choice for Jane Birkin’s ex-husband, Serge Gainsbourg. Today ...

In 1983 Jane Birkin boarded an AirFrance flight from Paris to London that would indelibly alter the trajectory of fashion history forever, though she nor any of the other passengers had any idea ...