Jane Birkin, 1946-2023
Actress, singer, icon, bag.
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Jeremy Allen, who interviewed Birkin at home in Paris for his Serge Gainsbourg memoir, writes a personal tribute to a woman “who made things happen”
Jane Birkin, the British actress who inspired Hermès' famed Birkin bag, died July 16 at age 76. But she never treated her namesake bag like a precious luxury item.
Jane Birkin, an actress and singer and 1960s wild-child who became a popular figure in France, died in Paris at the age of 76.
The British multi-hyphenate inspired the creation of the luxury bag after sitting next to Hermés chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight in 1984.